fuck this job.com

I took Performing Arts for 4 years, Hate to blow my own horn, but I was THE best actor in my class, I had the nick name "Man of a thousand voices". Trouble is no agents seem to think that I look right for any parts......go figure, so now I am a cleaner, and earn about £4,500 a year. It makes me laugh, now I have been a frickin cleaner for 3 years, I cant seem to get a decent job BECAUSE I have been a cleaner for that long, I thought about going back to uni again, but I now cant afford to. I am much worse off than you, and it is likely that I will stay this way, I am 25 and cannot yet afford to move out of my parents house, but then my 22 year old brother does 60 hours a week and he cant afford it either, in other words I am fucked.

I got a philosophy degree 10 years ago this month. In terms of personal development - a good move. In terms of getting a lot of money and screwing beautiful people every night it didn't do a damn thing. Apparently people who do philosophy make good lawyers and accountants, but I can't imagine two more soul-destroying professions.

Frankly I'd have had more luck getting rich selling my ugly pox-ridden body to any willing stranger.

I, too, am fucked.

I have a degree in communications and a diploma in journalism. Big waste. I know people who have a grade 12 education and make more money than me. What's even more maddening, they aren't very smart! I work for a financial advisor and I do anything from data-entry, processing applications to translating letters. I guess my job isn't that bad. I'm still using some of my skills I developed while in school. However, I'm not content in this place because the people I work with are fucked....really fucked. Plus, there's no room for advancement, unless I want to sell insurance. Fuck that!!!!

So yeah, I know what you mean.

I got a degree in Political Science which is a most worthless degree. When I got out of school I interviewed with the Secret Service, they didn't want me -- too old. I ended up doing something completely different than my degree but, yea, I know plenty of High School grads who make a hell of a lot more money than me.

It made me think what a waste my 4 1/2 years of college were/are to see so many dumb asses making 80-100K and they can barely sign their name on their paychecks to cash them because they are such troglodytes.

Life is unfair.

well several reasons- the main one being that I just kinda didn't want to spend the money and time. Now I do the job my sister went to 4 years of university for, and she's still in debt. My company trained me on the job, why...ahh because it's cheaper. Now my sister is doing nothing to do with her university training and making the same money as I am......but I am still wondering what I want to be when I grow up..there has to be more to life then this!!

I've wriiten a couple blogs on this topic. I received a degree in management information systems, a mix between business and computer classes. I worked in the field for 5 years making good money but hating every minute of it. Now most IT programming jobs have moved to india and china so even if i wanted to stay in the field it's very difficult to find a job unless I've been using a language or piece of software for 10 years or more. Not only that but the industry changes so quickly I'd constantly have to attend training etc.. just to keep up. So now i'm making a living doing something that doesn't require a college degree. College is VERY OVERRATED.

Three years out of law school. I'm still making less than all of my relatives who did not go to school (at least those who work).

However, I don't think it was a complete waste. Things are looking up. I got a decent raise, plenty of vacation time. New opportunities are opening everyday.

I would recommend to those of you who feel they have worthless degree to maybe try the tech school route. It'll only take you one year and you'll be able to say you are a technician and college educated. These people have the opportunities to move up to management in time because nobody else there has a degree.

Go for it. Make your financial dreams reality.

Tear

I quit college before graduating, struggled for about 6 years in low paying media jobs while I kept developing marketing/communication skills. Finally got a good paying government comm. job. I've been at it for nearly 20 years and I'm stuck because I don't have a piece of paper. I got a college diploma a couple of years ago through independent study. Now I'm working on a communications degree because I need that stupid piece of paper to have a shot at jobs with more responsibility out of this small town I'm stuck in. Doesn't matter that I have 20 years of experience. No, I have to take courses like cultural policy in capitalist societies before anyone will look at me for a better paying management postion.

Yes, I said it. A college degree is totally worthless in my opinion. I should know, I have, oh let me count, 4 degrees and am currently unemployed. Let's see. When I left high school so very long ago, I had no desire to go to college and so started working at Arby's, a fast food restaurant. I became an assistant manager within a year. I was making good money and the job wasn't that hard. But, stupid me, I started listening to other people who said I should go to college and get a "real job" or should I say a "real CAREER."

Duh. Idiot that I am, I wasted the next four years getting an associates degree and bachelor's degree in broadcasting. Now, that is the most useless degree on the planet. I found out that jobs in broadcasting pay less than minimum wage. In fact, it's a well-known fact that you are supposed to work for free as a broadcasting intern for at least a year or two to get your foot in the door. Fuck that. So off to graduate school since I thought being a librarian would be a better paying job (at least ten cents above minimum wage).

After wasting two more years getting a grad degree, I landed a librarian job that paid less than my Arby's job. Oh yes, things we're looking up. After awhile I was tired of living paycheck to paycheck and people said the only way I would make more money was to get another degree. Fucking idiot that I am I went to law school (don't ask, the worst decision I ever made). Three more wasted years later and absolutely no law firm would hire me. I guess I'm just an asshole, but not in the good asshole way of most attorneys.

So I ended up working at a law library, again getting paid shit and then on to Big MOD, which was just pure hell. In both places, no one gave a shit about my education or "degrees." In fact, if I had just stayed at Arby's I would be making more money than any of my previous jobs (I would probably be general manager now), and would have gotten a free car (the franchise I worked for gave away free cars to good managers). But nope, I listened to the fuckers with their fucking American dream bullshit and wasted nine years on college.

Someday I will take a match to all my diplomas that hang on my "wall of shame."

Napoleon

yeah, fuck the liberal arts degrees!

fuck most university degrees, actually. unless you are an engineer, nurse, teacher, or computer science geek. i thought i was bad off with my degree, but my friends of varying areas of study are no better. one has a music degree (ok, it's a given that someone might as well have given her a sheet of paper that said 'you are fucked' instead of her diploma for all it was worth), but i have another friend who did some grad school in science. here is a lesson to all you folks out there: if you are going into the sciences and get accepted into grad school, finish the damn degree. unless you have your PhD, you are going to be a monkey in the lab.

it's also why i've gone onto something more....shall we say, Sally Strutherish in my career pursuits? i'm not sinking a boatload into a major university now. screw them because they screwed me. i'm at a community college, and I understand that people in my upcoming field can make some good money and there is room for growth...plus, as the other smart person said, i also have a college degree on top of my pending associate's degree.

of course, if i had all the money and free time in the world, i'd like to have an English degree in creative writing. again, that's a complete waste since i'm a poor person because i've already been down that garden path before. you're dealing with snobbery from people who teach in universities because they don't want a real world job and who can afford to turn their nose up at the establishment and fling pooh at the bourgeosie, yet, i dare them to name off any of their pet students who have actually gone on to do something that they could actually make a living off of.

BA, film/video production and communication, minor in theatre. What a joke. I'm the ONLY one in my position right now with a college degree, and some of my coworkers make more than I do. The only good thing I did was to learn Spanish in college, which landed me the 24k a year job I'm at now.

I'm in grad school for counseling right now. It'll take me a while, but I'll have an MS and be a licensed professional counselor, plus I'll have internship experience (which my school will supposedly help me find.) So if I survive that, MAYBE I'll be able to get something decent!

Well, what I've run up against is that it seems EVERYBODY wants somebody with a fucking degree. Forget the fact that I have over 30 years out of school getting my head handed to me. Forget 20 years of supervisory experience in and out of the military. Fuck that, we got some kid with a degree in advanced underwater basket weaving who will make a great assistant manager. So kindly go fuck yourself.

It may seem like the degree is worthless, but I'll tell you what, it's a hell of a lot harder sledding without one. Unless you are able to get into a trade somewhere. (plumbing, welding, body disposal, whatever)

The sad part is, I'm really not impressed with some of the results I've seen comeout of college. Can't spell worth a fuck, can't speak or communicate, ZERO FUCKING PEOPLE SKILLS!

Fuck these people who seem to think that you need a college degree to sweep fucking floors! Bastards!

I got a degree and no i aint using it for nothing...i got a BA in communication and i have not used it yet, and its been about 1 and a half years since i graduated from college...i have a low paying job right now that i can only hope to keep, but the job sucks so much that it makes me sick...there are so many things that i would rather be doing than going to this job that i want to just tell them to just take this job and shove it...

but i cant because i need this job to pay student loans and what not...but i digress...you know the sad part of all this is? ive got relatives that didnt go to college but make more than me, and they are pushing this whole college thing on my little cousins and what not and it annoys me....

With the shortage of tradespeople that's the way to go. Big bucks in plumbing. Even the doctors, lawyers, and Bill Gates have to use toilets. I know of tradpespeople making six figure salaries with bonuses and overtime. Univesities are so out of touch with the marketplace it's pathetic. I've worked in communications for years and have kept up on developments in my field. The courses I have to take to fulfill my communications degree requirements have absolutely no relevance to the real world of corporate communications. Who gives a shit about this or that school of thought, and marxism and dominant class theory??? I want to learn how today's media is changing, the mega takeovers and how to deal with those changes. You know, practical stuff that you would actually use in a job!!! Oh, and most of my course material (I'm doing this degree through independent study)is at least ten years old. I think that communications has changed a bit in a decade, no? But they continue to charge full tuition fee for an out-of-date course with a tutor who tells you that his dinner is in the oven when you call during his conference hours and rushes you off the phone. Hope he enjoys his Kraft Dinner 'cause that's probably all he could afford with his liberal arts degree.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. Sounds impressive huh? Well it's not. I wanted to go into newspaper work but there is no fucking way to get into newspaper, radio, or tv. So I decided that my degree comes in handy for toiler paper because I am too fucking broke to buy the real stuff. 4 years at a private college that didn't know fucking shit about how to find me a job despite me going to these 'job hunting classes' and bugging the head of the job service department 4 or 5 days a week. 'There are no jobs at the moment' is what she told me. After a string of miminum wage jobs, I finally found a half ways decent job but it has nothing to do with my degree. I just feel so useless sometimes. Why did I waste all my time and money? To work for $10 an hour?? And there are no fucking jobs in this part of the world and there is no way I am moving away again for another $10 an hour job. Life's a bitch then you die.

My degree is so useless and silly that I am ashamed that I ever found the idea of attaining it worthy of hope and time. Being the first in my family to attain a degree, I stood as the shining trail blazer to a better world of opportunity. I earn less with a degree than I did without one. My last experience with job hunting taught me that it was far better to drop the degree and leave that portion of my life unexplained-maybe I was a drug addict, a prostitute, homeless and insane all of which were preferable to having gone to college mounting up ridiculous slave inducing debt and saying look at me. Currently I am employed in a job with no chance of promotion, ever. I spend Sundays looking for work, Monday nights looking for work, much of Tuesday evening-well the picture is clear. Sometimes I actively research the level of self mutilation I would need to endure in order to qualify for Social Security Disability. I have a mantra: I do really need food and shelter. My efforts of convincing myself are wearing thin and I am not containing it well.

I agree 100%.

I busted my ass for a 4-yr Business Degree because it was "the smart thing to do", and it would allow to get me a better paying job and this and that, and yet Ive graduated almost 2 years ago and still cannot get out of this shit banking job that Ive been at for 8 years. Just turned 30, still living with parents like most of my friends, what a fucking joke. What was the point?? So I could struggle making 26K a year with bullshit raises and shitty insurance. This place is filled with lifers making shit money and asskissers. How emabrrasing. So many times, I ask myself if I have to turn to crime to make some decent money.
Several years exeperience, college degree, respectful, intelligent, loyal and hardworking and I cant even get callbacks for these half-ass jobs Ive applied to???

Even a fucking sales job where you need to drive your own car, I couldnt even get a callback from the manager. Unreal.

A friend of mine in the same situation got turned down by a rent-a-car place, then finally found some shit sales job working nights, he finally said fuck this and quit and went to work with his old man.

What the hell is going on in the damn country??????

Degrees usually don't mean shit. There are a few people I wouldn't want to deal with unless they had a college education. Doctor, dentist, physician, attorney. I don't want someone fuckin with my body unless they have school and have been approved by others in the field.

For teaching, computers, coffee bringer, phone answerer, banker, writer, painter, musician, the list is endless. Degree means nothing.

I guess employers think it proves you could stick out 2-4 years of school to get a piece of paper.

To this day I remember calling the University of Phoenix (in town) and asking about a certification. He tried to convince me I HAD to enroll and get a degree to get any decent job. Did he have one? Nope, he was a retired Marine who claimed nobody wanted to hire him with all of his helicopter mechanics because he didn't have a degree. Then either he can't write a resume for shit, or he's a liar. I told him straight up that if I don't enroll, HE doesn't make any money, and a degree doesn't prove shit. He shut up real fast.

It really bothers me seeing high school grads (or even GED) who have skills, don't know how to write a resume, checks into a college, then has a counselor convince him or her that without shelling out THOUSANDS of dollars, there are no good jobs out there. It's actually quite the opposite.

If it makes people feel better to shell out the money with NO guarantee of a job, go for it. I didn't and I make a decent living. I also have a very strong resume.