@darling_luna: I know what you mean, a lot of companies want workers with work experience. But I'm planning on getting a computer science degree, but I don't know if it'll be worth it.
@darling_luna: I know what you mean, a lot of companies want workers with work experience. But I'm planning on getting a computer science degree, but I don't know if it'll be worth it.
It definitely will. Lots of careeres STEM related have high paying jobs. If you don't mind me asking what is your ethnicity?
The reason I ask is becasue I read an article about google trying to "diversify" their company after they've realized most of their workforce consists of white and asian men. Anyway yeah Computer Programming is a nice career with everything becoming modern and all that.
I think college can be worth it if you want a well-rounded education. I honestly think that when you graduate high school (16-17), you're barely on the cusp of understanding a lot of the more interesting aspects of the world we live in, and the core curriculum model of most 4-year universities will force you to take classes in areas that you wouldn't have considered relevant to you. E.g. when I went to college I majored in Physics but wound up switching to English in my junior year after I realized that I loved poetry and writing more than I did Fourier transforms and cosmology. (Also I was terrible at any kind of math.) I probably wouldn't have had that experience had I not gone to a university and been tasked with studying multiple fields of learning. It wasn't exactly the trivium/quadrivium model, but it helped get me out of my comfort zone and looking at things I didn't expect to love as much as I wound up doing.
Of course, I graduated college with a sum total of $17,000 in student loans in 2001; I can't imagine anyone getting out of a decent four-year university with anything like that nowadays. At some point a subscription to the New York Review of Books and proximity to a decent library outweighs the notion of spending 100 grand on a four-year education.
Yes, gaining connections are 100% worth. Landing a job will be much easier, if you know a few people in the industry. Also make sure the degree is worth it.
There is no definitive answer to that question other than kind of.
It just depends on your real world connections after you finish, plus a little bit of luck. But for sure, it does put more eyes on you, and as a young professional, who wouldn't want that?
It all depends on what you plan on using it for, and make sure you're not just wasting your time there. If you know what you want to do and if you're required to get a degree for it, then go and put in the work. And even if you don't manage to land the exact career you originally desired you'll still have a much better chance at getting employed in another area than you would if you had no degrees.
I feel the industry that is higher education perpetuates this need to go to university. However, I really don't think it's worth it, unless you really want to do it. A lot of people go to college because it's the norm or it's what they should do, but not because it's really want they desire. You reap what you sow and you get what you put in. Also, many skills can be learned while on the job, and that seems to be the case now anyways. So many people work in jobs outside their major of study and it seems the degree is just there to tell your boss that you graduated college, and that you should have some semblance of common sense and intelligence to have achieved that. But, in reality, there are plenty of people who are just as smart and hard-working, but just can't sit in a classroom or afford college, and so, are not afforded the same opportunities merely because they don't have a piece of paper.
Right now, I regret going to college, it really hasn't been beneficial to me. I don't care to go into anymore details on it. Lets just leave it at its all about who you know and your work experience. Degrees are simply the new high school diploma.
You have a chance to be on your way to a better life.
Plus you can go wrong with a Computer Science degree you will have tons of job opportunity in that
field.
Just make sure your resume is the bomb.Try to make tons of important contacts in College it pays off to know a few rich kids.That might sound harsh but it is the truth.
Hell no. If you want to waste time and money that could have been used to work and improve your resume within the workforce and save for something useful, respectively, then go right ahead.
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