Degrees That Get You Hired...

Sion wrote: »

In life I think what your success (and even salary) will largely depend on is how well you can take the skills you have and make money with them. An education will definitely get your foot in the door and in some areas (like Medicine or Law) it's essential. Like I'm gonna use the poster @WeeZee as an example, here's a young person (prolly younger than yall) who loves art and also works as a tattoo artist while going to school, her skills and being able to utilize her talents allowed for her to buy a home WHILE in school and make good money. That's not exclusive to only 1 person, you can all achieve that too. The trick tho is finding that which you are good at and learning how to leverage it into making money, some people are writers, some people are sociology majors, etc. those are tough areas to get hired in but eventually they make it work. That's the hard part. Your education will take you far but be sure to develop the right talents you need to excel. You don't want to be the guy who felt he/she should have gone into computer sciences iuno but did law instead cuz your friends or even parents were in your ears (they dont care they just want stability for you). If you go into things you don't like you'll be disconnected & eventually replaced by someone more passionate and cheaper than you, you might make your money here and there but it won't last long. You don't want to be the guy who gets laid off at 50 without the right skills or talents to go into something you have always loved but never got to do because of peer pressure, etc. I've seen a lot of people like that SMMFH. The earlier you get this in your mind the better.

You have to have 2 outstanding qualities in life - confidence and discipline, most of you will find confidence but discipline is the toughest part. Crafting a thorough discipline is going to be dependent on the habits you develop early on. Several of my best friends went to ivy league schools and went 6 months without a job or got jobs that weren't entirely what they went to school for. If you're unfortunate to believe that your degree will roll out the red carpet for you, you need to widen your perspective. If you're going to get an education be smart about it and make sure it's in the line of what you're passionate about.

If any of you can - go and purchase Robert Greene's book "Mastery", or actually just google it and peep one of his interviews on it. I'm sure it'll motivate yall.

@Sion beautiful...I'm actually a product of everything you are saying. I've shared this story on another thread, but confidence and discipline is CRITICAL!! But with that also comes knowledge, you have to find your passion and then whatever passion you find, research on it.

I could actually look back 10 years since I've graduated high school, I was already a McDonalds guy just like everyone else. Coming out of high school I was interested in computers, and did want to go to college but I decided to go to community college first to get my feel of college. In 03, after graduating high school and working 2 years at MCDs, I started working in the casinos. I worked a year in the casinos, took a break from school and went to community college in 04. From there worked as a cashier graveshift for 3 years part time while going to college full time. I wanted to start getting computer experience, so I decided to quit the first casino in 06. I then also did co-op at my college for a year and as I quit the casinos, started working at a tux shop. As that semester year 06 ended, I left the tux shop and co-op job and found it very difficult to find a computer job in the city, so I got hired as a Sales Associate in a watch shop. Did that for a year and at that time graduated community college in 07, at that time a computer job opened up at another casino. Interviewed but didn't get the job, so I ended up getting a bank teller job. And in 08 started going to a state college, so part time job/ full time school. Worked the bank teller job for a year (07-08) and ended up talking to the same casino for the second time. Got the computer job finally! It wasn't too much, but I worked at this job for 3 years graveshift full time while going to college fulltime.

In 2011, I finally graduated the state college with my bach of sci, and decided to look into the job field for a stronger computer position. A family friend got me into a gov. computer job of which I am still in to this day...but as I've worked in this job, I realized that this job wasn't as what I expected it to be. So RIGHT NOW, I'm looking to relocate to a better job...still working and actually doing a good job but working on getting that position.

...to be honest thats as short as I can make it but as I've told my friends and family, I haven't got sleep since I've graduated, I'm never comfortable with that one job yet I wanted to work and get experience and of course help pay bills. It took me 7 years to at least get one computer job, but I wanted to finish college and at least have that on my plate before leaving. You may not have the same story as myself, but whatever you want to be you stay determined and patient. I didn't mention the millions of interviews and positions I got turned down for, but I continued to work on my skills, do research on what I want to do, and networking absolutely helps.

smh business administration seems so oversaturated

turqiun wrote: »

what about law degree, that's what I'm working on now.

If you're not going to law school don't bother

KrazySpade wrote: »

I dont think theres any degrees that "get you hired" it really comes down to networking, and if you already have a foot in the door of a company.
There is no company's really are willing to take a risk on a completely random person that just graduated college.
i know various people that are recent graduates even with bachelors degrees in different majors that are still working minimum wage jobs.
I myself am kinda in the same position where i just graduated with my bachelors last june and am still working at a regular job but i decided to take what learned and apply it to starting my own business. I enrolled back into school but now i am not looking to get a degree, now i am taking classes focused on just things that will teach me the basics for things i feel i will need to know to run my business more effectively (ex: small business law, taxes, marketing etc) I only need to know the basics because i will learn the rest with experience.

Google The portable MBA PDF. Be sure to find the latest addition.

Anything in accounting or the health care field from people i know that got into those are making decent amount of paper