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
There’s a typo in your code at 13:37 just FYI.
Get a job programming video codecs. Then you get to feel superior and inferior at the same time. Also eternally frustrated by doing things that help everyone and no one, and that you can never finish. It’s the best of all worlds.
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!
People absolutely can. It’s just a lot easier when you have guidance from an expert advisor, multiple peers to help you out, and an established pathway to focus several years of your life on doing so.
To be clear, my PhD “advisor” was a hindrance to my education, work, life, and career. I succeeded despite my ”advisor” and broke all contact upon my defense.
1/3 of my entering cohort left without degrees. Not atypical.
I’m sorry to hear that. I’m glad that you survived it though.
Im an actuarie, so I can’t say that I have problem finding job, but I prefer programming and every task I’m assigned I spend all the time necessary to do it in python.
and develop inferiority complex
That’s what I did, in the end. But in the mean while I got to study something I am passionate about.
A superiority complex? I find it quite simple actually
My superiority is purely real, with no imaginary components
Hey now. Us physics majors can just do less efficient engineering work.
…with an inferiority complex.
Less efficient, but superior engineering! Eventually. For large values of later.
Only if it’s a spherical frictionless cow, which all things are
Hey now. Us physics majors can just do less efficient engineering work.
I feel like you guys are better than us at a lot tbh.
You guys have a superiority complex? That must be nice!
As a chemist, all I got was a shortened lifespan.
Need to make a new compound? Use a carcinogen
Liquid/liquid extraction? Carcinogen
Neutralize a reactive compound? Carcinogen
Clean your glassware? Believe it or not, carcinogen.
Chemists have the most applicable skills of any science majors, and it’s all because of carcinogens.
To quote an old professor: “there isn’t a lab table dirty enough that a little benzene won’t clean it!” Fortunately for us (and him) ‘they’ wouldn’t let him do that anymore.
He also habitually turned his head sideways when working with, say, ether, because you dont want your pipe to set the fumes on fire.
Seriously. As a biologist, my education was general enough that I learned how little I know about everything, instead giving me an inferiority complex.
Add history majors
I have an ex friend who was condescending 100% of the time, despite being constantly being unemployed/working retail.
When you see the bigger picture, but not what lies directly in front of you.
As an history major, better than everyone on this site° , your comment give me a sensible chuckle
Thanks
° Hosbawn op. cit.
The smart ones went into finance
There are smart people in finance?
Yes, they just lack morals and empathy.
Yes, but they don’t have finance or business degrees.
I was tutoring maths to students enrolled in the economics program at a uni. And… Wow. Yeah…
When it comes to the U.S (it doesn’t seem to mention employment rate) Mathematics was 11th place in the highest paying majors 5 years in according to an NY Federal reserve study last month: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/highest-paying-college-majors-5-years-after-graduation.html
I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.
I’m two classes away from both a math and physics degree, and I’m planning to go back to school for computer science once my slumlord finally writes a new lease.