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_Rinku_ posted...

You do know that an entire generation was told, for their entire lives, that they HAD to go to college or they would be a "worthless burger flipper" for the rest of their lives? And that they were repeatedly told that it didn't matter what their degree was in; it just mattered that they had one. I went to public school from 1997-2010 and I heard that from every adult in my life that entire time. I was constantly told I would be a failure if I didn't go to college and get a degree. And I made the "official" decision to attend when I was seventeen.

And before you chime in with some cute, "Shouldn't have majored in underwater feminine studies," quip, know that I have one of those coveted STEM degrees. I graduated with high honors. I had a minor with extremely practical applications that should have allowed me to have a wide range of jobs I could do.

I couldn't find SHIT after graduation. Sure, there were plenty of shitty lab jobs that paid $11/hr, but that's not a living wage. I constantly got filtered out by shitty algorithms before a human would ever look at my resume (even after copy pasting keywords and phrases and having a specialist completely rewrite my resume). The job market my generation was promised DOES NOT EXIST anymore and we feel justifiably ripped off.

you need a PhD for the hard sciences like biology, chemistry, physics. Anything less is , like you said, is shitty technician jobs.