Comments by "Tim85" (@user-do2ev2hr7h) on "TellEmBoi" channel.

I get that many people feel a degree isn't worth the return they're currently getting but the truth is unless you go about acquiring a special skill by some other means, you're still generally even worse off without a degree. The truth is that while a degree can place you on q better lifetime career track as a freshly minted graduate you're still on the bottom of that track. The benefit of a degree is a long game.
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Exactly. A big problem is many young people think getting a degree is the end of the grind when it's really just the first step.
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Part of being an adult is learning to power through that though.
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Nobody wants to work but it's part of life. Be glad you at least have earning power. Many people don't and would give anything to be able to go out and work.
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Of course you can't have 10 years of experience at 23 but the part people seem to be missing is that you can at 33. Having a degree is the price of admission for many fields, not a pass to start on the middle of the ladder.
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No thanks, that's not the change I want.
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There are a lot of fields where it's impossible to get a job without the proper credentials. A degree doesn't garentee anything put it's often the price of entry to at least be able to compete.
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No but even those degrees are often the point of entry to white-collar work
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@mollystrong523 Perhaps, but over the long term you will likely end up out earning them (or at least having the real potential to do so). It's a long game. Entry pay isn't as important as long-term potential, but that's often something that young people fail to grasp. It's not what you make in your early 20's, it's what you make 10-15 years later. In the meantime earning higher than the median household income at 23 still isn't too shabby.
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Just because they are not working in their field of choice doesn't mean their degree didn't improve their overall job prospects. That's what people don't get. Degrees (in any subject) open up an entire tier of jobs.
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Complain that they can't get any experience and also complain about the internships that would give them that experience.
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Not necessarily. A much higher percentage of people are ineligible for service than many realize.
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They have for the upper half of earners. The problem is people don't want to admit where they fall on that curve. If you make less than the median wage of course you're going to struggle.
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Statistically they do .
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@DonalldArmentor Hard to fudge things like average salary lifetime employment status.
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The two are not mutually exclusive. You have to get your investment capital somewhere.
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Nonsense. If you have a retirement account you're an investor.
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They're always going to prefer the person with the most experience who's willing to take the job. The point is you need to get experience to be competitive and that only comes with time. A degree is only half the equation.
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Nobody wants that but it's been reality for the majority of humans throughout history. You've got to do what you've got to do.
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They have the same point they always have: to earn money.
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If the only thing you bring to the labor pool is the same as people who will work for that little, you have much bigger problems than immigration to worry about but people don't want to look in the mirror and admit that part. You can only artificially inflate the value of labor so much.
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@ 1. Income is certainly not printable by individuals 2. Even to the extent that money is printable, that doesn't come with zero consequences.
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@ No matter how miserable you are working, you'll be more miserable with literally zero income. Let's be honest, when people say things like that they really mean they intend to live off of somebody else. Unless you're independently wealthy (in which case the whole thing is moot) working is not a choice. There's a difference between being "broke" in the sense that you can't afford the lifestyle you would prefer and being literally destitute.
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@zr9145 So again I ask "what do you do for survival money?"
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If they can't verify it, they're likely going to treat is as nonexistant at best and mark.you.down as a liar at worst. Just be honest and straightforward and work om.getting the actual credentials you need. Above all, remember that Rome wasn't built in a day.
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@Mimi-hn6iv Part of the reason recruitment is so low is because standards are higher. Some of those may get waived, but the days when they'd take any warm body went out with Project 100,000
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Making literally nothing buys a lot less.
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@ That's all well and good but at the end of the day you won't have time to worry about any kind of wellbeing if you can't at least pay the bills.
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It seems odd to me to complain that you can't get hired because you have zero experience while also complaining about things like internships that would give you that experience. At least be honest and say you don't actually want a solution you just want them to hire you even though you bring nothing to the table.
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@riskingrain1560 I get that but this is essentially part of the education/credentialing process. We accept (even if we don't like it) that you have to pay in order to be a full time student and this isn't much different. It's hard on the very poorest who struggle to find the money to participate, but that's true of most everything and not a situation that is easily fixed.
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@riskingrain1560 No. You pay to get the education and credentials which make you worth hiring (or which make you more competitive against others.) It's always been that way even if the specifics of that education etc. change over time. You don't have to do it, but they don't owe you a job if there's a more competitive candidate either. That's life.
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@riskingrain1560 I never said it was fair or equal, it just is.
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@tempusername-l5d It's 200k per year with 7 years experience. That's great by any reasonable standard.
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That makes no sense. So having zero income is somehow better than a little,?
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Anyone who can afford to turn down a job is either independently wealthy or has someone else subsidizing them.
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@ They wouldn't be giving appalling service if they knew it would risk a job they truly needed. Half-assing your job is a luxury in and of itself.
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@rickrollrizal People who get those types of degrees tend to either have a very specific idea of what they want to do (often involving advanced degrees and pursuing a career in academia) or are just trying to get access to the tier of jobs that require a degree but don't really care in what subject.
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@henrynguyen4315 Provided you can/are willing to pay off your loans, that's a temporary issue. 5 or even 10 years of grinding off debt in exchange for a lifetime increase in earnings isn't a bad exchange.
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@ The very concept of work/life balance is pretty much a fancy way of saying you wish you didn't have to work (or at least didn't have to work as much). Don't get me wrong, people absolutely should make decisions based upon what they most value, but if you want maximum pay that's going to require maximum work. If you expect to take a "self care day" whenever you feel like it, you're going to make less. That's just how life works.
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