Was talking about this with a friend last night who struggled through their whole degree thinking they were being academically challenged when really they should have been asking for support with their mental health. We never tell students how hard it should be to learn the next thing and when something has actually gone wrong.
The scales fall from my eyes
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Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Choose the lazy route. I am good with learning languages so I went with a diploma in foreign language education. I can’t find a job but eh, even people with doctoratal degree can’t find a in this hellhole. I am pretty good with computers too but it’s meaningless without a certification and there’s no chance am gonna waste 6 month of my life learning basic office tools i already know / can automate programmatically. Sorry, needed to vent.
alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Tbf in most IT companies nobody cares about certs that are not on some form mandatory. A company caring about certs might be a negative signal to their ability to hire effectively for IT roles
mondo_brondo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This. I started my career with 0 experience and an unrelated degree. I found an employer who saw I knew at least a little bit and hired me entry level. It wasn’t the job I wanted, but it got me in the door, and that’s the hardest part IMO. From there, you find opportunities to demonstrate your skill/knowledge and gun for promotions and raises whenever you can.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Which i was living where you guys live but I am stuck in a third world hellhole.
I mean, it’s so shit that despite a regular monthly paycheck being around 150$ (less than half of India average paycheck ) we have very little companies outsourcing in here.