Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Going to university? Think before you do! (Plumber vs Lecturer)" video.

  1. I'm getting a history PhD and I can say emphatically that you should never do this with the intent of making money. The only job that requires this degree is professor and you'll spend at least a hundred grand and years of hazing in grad school and have few if any job offers afterwards. There's still a steady stream of applicants because this job attracts egotistical bastards. Don't ask what I want to do with my degree. I cannot tell you.
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  2. A scam requires a lie, that is simply not so. The word you mean is "bubble." And rocket science is one of the better degrees. The university I briefly attended had internships pretty much mandatory and these firms usually hired the interns upon graduation. Few get prestigious positions like with NASA or Skunk Works, though.
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  3. @robertmazurowski5974  or get stupidly luck. For instance, Arnie was a stuntman and body builder who spoke little English, but fit perfect for the role of the Terminator.
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  4. You should see why textbooks are so expensive. They spend literal fortunes recruiting and paying professors and make it back by forcing students to buy new textbooks they likely won't read every year. I caused a stir in my teaching class because for a class on early American history I recommended The Beard's History of the US (written turn of the century).
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  5. Becoming a prestigious academic has a pyramid scheme like payoff. You pay someone to teach you, then must find several people that will pay you to teach them.
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  6. ​ @HontasFarmer80 STEM grad school is notoriously toxic
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  7. It's like the myth that anyone can get rich. No, obviously not everyone can be millionaires. Most of us can only be successful by being skilled workers.
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  8.  @penultimateh766  usually because good organization minimizes bureaucracy
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  9. @Boz196  a million a year? You don't get that unless you run a business and that is not a matter of skill, but inheritance, debt, and dumb luck.
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  10. @aim120C  the mods that run that page are not historians and remove all content they didn't write or don't feel like answering
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  11. @Stickmaster1019  no, I mean it's a secret
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  12.  @aidy6000  no one gives a frick if you have a doctorate.
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  13. We call those idiots prestige whores and they just lose money off the pyramid scheme. I mean this literally.
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  14.  @Boz196  How much did you lose in the silly business venture?
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  15. To be fair, many majors are themselves trade skills. Like nursing.
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  16.  @BobbaFett312  everyone complains about wages no matter what they get
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  17. Most history majors get government jobs, though. That is why you don't see the piss poor wages some majors offer @Inquisitor6321 
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  18. @smasherblues5322  the armed forces is a cesspit of retards, fornicators, and infighting
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  19.  @anonymousAJ  menial labor refers to things a trained monkey could do. Skilled labor isn't that
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  20.  @Duncantits  I knew a professor who did that and still lost money
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  21. As if you can't access the same classes for a fraction the price by buying great courses series off Audible.
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  22.  @openeroftheway8596  most of the price is paying a guy to grade your work and issue a certificate. The majors where this isn't true are also majors that have real world use
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  23. @Boz196  and luck definitely exists. Bill Gates would have not become so rich if A) He was not born in the late 50s and B) idiots didn't given him free money in the tech bubble.
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  24. The thing is these days there are so many programs making degrees cheaper that a lot of majors have wide surpluses of persons. Especially if it's perceived as an easy degree (liberal arts) or a degree that will make you lots of money (programming).
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  25. ​ @ZESAUCEBOSS I've received over 15 grand in grants and 100 grand in subsidized loans just for being poor. It's called FAFSA.
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  26. ​ @222toastedtoasters3 he's even lying about the US which (as always) has programs similar to the UK.
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  27.  @ZESAUCEBOSS  you might as well use it if the government pays for it. Patriotism is a myth.
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  28. Except with those jobs the reason you need a degree is because you need at least some talent to learn it.
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  29. I tried to be a rocket scientist, but I cannot math
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  30. TIK is talking mostly about degrees which there are no job specifically requiring it. Becoming a doctor, for instance, is totally worth the 150 grand needed.
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  31.  @TheImperatorKnight  can be as high as a quarter million a year if you're a specialist or invent a new proceedure/medicine
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  32.  @nco_gets_it  googling... Where I'm from you must have a degree before taking the exam.
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  33. Statistically speaking, the jobs that pay the most relative to skill are jobs no one wants. Plumber, butcher, and professional criminals who spend half their lives behind bars.
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