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When I was in school, I was always told "If you get a college degree you'll on average make 500k more over the life time of your career regardless of what you get your degree in!"

Then as I finishing school, it was all about "If you get into tech you'll make big bucks and always have jobs!"

Both of those have turned out not great for a lot of people.

Then whenever women say they're struggling with money online, they get pointed to OF... which pays nothing to 99% of creators. Also very presumptive to suggest that, but we don't even need to get into that.

So is there a field/career strategy that you feel like is currently being over pushed?

(My examples are USA, Nevada/Utah is where I grew up, if maybe it's different in other parts of USA even.)

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[–] Kethal 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe something about learning how to use apostophes or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

As someone without friends, I hear a lot of "if you want friends, get a job."

Plot twist: I actually do have a job, many of them don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think there are a lot of fields people are being encouraged to ignore because "it's totally going to be made obsolete by AI any day now". I'm sure some of them ultimately will be, but we still have people doing financial services despite so much of the calculations being handled entirely by software under the hood.

The people pushing this AI revolution concept are those who stand to make money off it, and those who can use it as an excuse for layoffs to save money in the short term before they jump to another company and avoid the consequences.

[–] ericbomb 3 points 1 month ago

I remember 14 years ago in high school I was kicking around the idea of becoming a court reporter (type out everything said in court) , but was told "nooo look at Siri, that'll totally replace all that soon!"

No, no it's not. We don't want things like that making choices like that.

Also was told "C and C++ is too old, learn something newer"

People get too excited about new tech, not thinking about why the old tech stands the test of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Go to trade school.

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