The smart ones went into finance
Add history majors
I have an ex friend who was condescending 100% of the time, despite being constantly being unemployed/working retail.
Just get a programming job
Done, but I am simply so much better than all the IT majors… I feel superior.
Watch my latest YT livestream where I coded a JavaScript interpreter just using Haskell and a french press : https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=B7D-gmfeBYIZNeVE
For real. I made the life mistake of getting a PhD but managed to turn it into an asset by doing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.
doing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.
The reason it’s straightforward to you and scary to others is because you have a PhD. Even if it’s not in finance, you gained abilities in reading documents, extracting useful information, integrating knowledge, teaching yourself skills, building tools, and generating reports. To most people, those are difficult things.
If only there was a way these people could teach themselves these skills, even without access to a doctorate program!
A superiority complex? I find it quite simple actually
Hey look, it’s my mom!(tried to be a math teacher, could never secure anything but substitute, refused to move outside the city for employment on another city, refused to “work beneath” her, my family was mostly single-income from my dad growing up)
Rant ahead: feel free to SKIP
She finally got a job when she had 0 calls in a year for a substitute position. Working for a hospital (hypocritically because of someone she knew getting her the job when she had been raging against that very thing in teaching positions for years) in their government insurance area. Or “beneath her” as she would have once said.
It gave me no small sense of Schadenfreude to see her “stoop” to my level after years of “I told you, you should have gone to college” the sheer unmitigated gall of which I clearly still hold a grudge over. I wanted to go to a tech school for welding. I could still have attended my AP science electives before going to welding class. And since nobody ever set a cent aside for college, it would have given me a way to pay for it if I decided to go. And most importantly I would probably have had my own house by now. Welders in this area get paid quite well. Especially if you can get in one of the factories nearby, they’ve got the best medical plan I’ve ever seen but apparently they’re owned by some European company so it makes sense.
Your mom sounds annoying lol. Hopefully youa don’t have to put up with that shit anymore
