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366 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Nov 2023 \ on: Do you have a University degree? meta
I have a bunch of them. I'm probably the most over credentialed person any of you ever talk to.
We've discussed it in another thread, but basically I was a lot better at school than I was at figuring out what I should be doing.
It's a common problem.
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Definitely. I'm just an extreme example. At least it ultimately resulted in a profession. I know some people can't even say that.
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I'm just glad that when the road forked between a PhD in classical studies and computer science, I took the path more traveled by :)
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It won't be the road more travelled by for much longer I'd guess. Nearly every parent of college age children that I talk to is pushing them to go into computer science.
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Won't that make it even more more traveled by?
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Apparently, k00b thinks your a classics scholar.
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It is either the profoundest of compliments or the profoundest of insults :)
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Oh lol It seems like folks are getting pushed into softer parts of STEM, eg CS, so I suspect we'll have fewer people in classical studies.
Though, parents used to push children into medicine and law so maybe things haven't changed that much.