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.)
“Go infiltrate your own billionaire’s bunker.”
If you want a house, start saving in middle school.
Career advice for this generation is get wealthy parents
Ahh man all I got was a disabled mom and prison dad.
Think I can trade him for a rich dad to a rich person who wants to claim they had a rough child hood?
“Unionize, join the party, and eat the rich.”
Buy a 3d printer and sell shit on eBay.
Probably “switch jobs often” but who knows, that might still be good advice.
Just be careful when you do, because there’s a risk of screwing up your retirement savings. Losing employer contributions that could have kicked in if you held out another 6 months or whatever. (I’m not an expert on this subject by the way, and ymmv)
I’m in IT. It’s the advice I wish I’d followed from the beginning.
Once you get comfortable in your job and it becomes routine, you need to find a new one. Keep growing your skill set, and probably take a hefty raise each time.
Don’t worry about being a job hopper - it resolves itself easily enough when you don’t find the next position for a while.
That sounds super stressful to me and you need to have a lot of energy left after your workday to look for a new job. I’m so glad I don’t have to do that
If you want a good job, become a social media influencer. It pays more than most other jobs, and you can be the worst type of person and still make it big.
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.
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.
I tell my kids that a) they must graduate high school, and then either go to college or learn a trade. Regardless, they need to be educated.
“Give up hope now before the pain of existence rips it away. Oh, also eat healthy, and do some light exercise daily that stuff is important too.”
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.
No one seriously thinks OF is a viable career path do they? Sex work has never been a career thing, at best you get a couple years of good earning and then you get forgotten. At worst, you get a pittance and mental health issues.
Tech has worked out for lots of people, just because some are laid off every so often, doesn’t mean the rest aren’t doing really well.
OF is a lottery for pretty girls or for people in very niche communities.
Like if your thing is wearing girly socks and mushing Jello between your toes, you could probably make some money on onlyfans but just being a generic 6.5 out of 10 or better looking? No chance in hell.
“Just be a YouTuber/streamer/influencer”
Is this a thing people say unironically? It’s as dumb as saying “just go be a movie star”
I hear this from some of the kids that I coach. I remind them that they have to do something worth watching. I know that some lucky content creators make money with low effort posts, but in a world where everyone wants views, you need to be good enough at something to catch peoples attention.
That tracks. I volunteered with a week long program to teach html and the basics of building a website, and I went back to work after day one because all the students picked social media marketing. 😆
The (Graphic) Design industry is being overmarketed by influencers trying to sell their overpriced courses, so that they can get a passive income instead of actually working in the field. They have no desire to teach nor mentor students, and the industry is actually extremely saturated with very little prospects unless you land a bingo of both skills and networking.
- “Learn how to teach yourself”
