Dex is right and I am more or less continuously angry about this Kids have no idea what they're doing and the people giving advice about college by and large do not know how the game is played and this by and large screws kids and I am Madhttps://twitter.com/TLEPaz/status/1290053473434664961 …
-
-
Like--tens of thousands in debt for a so-so degree, not cut out for grad school--I don't know where they ended up, mostly. I really tried, even in class: "Here are the things you need to do to get an entry analyst job." I'd guess maybe a handful followed up on it.
Show this thread -
I think many of them were there because it was Expected, not because they wanted to learn my shit, and not because they had any kind of plan for what to do next. And you know, thirty or fifty years ago, maybe that cut it. It really doesn't now but do their parents know?
Show this thread -
UMC parents have an inkling if they're connected. Maybe. In the big coastal cities, in tech, sure. Everyone else, no way. Universities have no incentive to publicize this. They're /delighted/ to take the tuition and lead a generation into debt slavery
Show this thread -
And if you're not plugged into to get the lowdown on the True Path--if your last memory of college was out of the eighties--God forbid, if you never went to college yourself--there's no way you're going to be in a position to give good advice. But how would you know that?
Show this thread -
I'm not sympathetic to children of the Upper West Side murdering each other for NYT internships, but they are not the median case. Median case is probably something like a gen 2 Hispanic kid burning his proud parent's life savings and taking debt for a worthless degree.
Show this thread -
Anyway, burn down campuses and salt the earth. This system is distilled Lawful Evil.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
the practical advice that few want to give or hear: after a point, take the jobs you can get, outperform, get onto the management trajectory. if that doesn't suit your temperament, make your own business. if that doesn't suit your temperament, idk dude you might be fucked.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Hosed as a result of the externalities of the job market? Or hosed as a result of being a sort of regression to the mean of competence relative to you and your peer group of technically-minded people? (You'll probably say 'both').
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
It’s hard to get people to go from “you can do anything you want if you want it (work hard enough)” to “there’s not many things to do (that you don’t have to force people into paying you for) and you probably can’t do most of those things anyway”.
-
And also any move towards cold hard pragmatism entails early specialisation and that’s forcing a person to take on a ridiculous amount of risk under huge (asymmetric in some cases) uncertainty. Just wave at the journeymen as they walk by I guess...
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.