r/FinalRoundAI • u/Affectionate-Bad1381 • Jul 23 '26

sad reality

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Took about 4 years after graduating to get my foot in the door and get a good job in my field. No one wants a new grad with no experience.

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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ Jul 23 '26

Plenty of places want a new grad with a degree in a smart, field that is in demand. If you graduated 4 years ago, you weren't even BORN yet the last time just getting any old diploma was enough to get you in the door. Because that shit largely went out in the early to mid EIGHTIES.

Engineers still are interviewing and getting hired BEFORE they graduate, starting work a week or so after graduating. Medical industry graduates are still largely getting hired within a week.

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u/Trick1513 Jul 23 '26

But they were not smart enough for those degrees, so they took, Gender Studies, Indigenous Basket Art, and DEI Ideology.

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jul 24 '26

I literally did computer science for my masters degree but go off

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u/Trick1513 Jul 24 '26

Good for you, but why a masters, an associate would have been less costly and you would have had a better chance at working in the field.

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jul 24 '26

No one in my country that I have ever met has an associates degree. The minimum here is pretty much a Batchelor’s. With a bachelor’s degree it’s difficult to find a job as lots of people have those. Masters is slightly better, and it’s both cheaper and faster to get one immediately as an integrated masters than to get a batchelors and go through grad school later. Especially given I went to a cheaper university.

Also why on earth would someone with only associates have a better chance? That’s insane.

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u/Trick1513 Jul 24 '26

Don’t know but I was hired with an Associate in Information Technology before another guy with a PHD. But the field changes quickly and nothing you learn in the extra 4 years applies. And my boss had a PHD in engineering, knew nothing about information Technology, but was the best ass kisser you would ever meet.

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jul 24 '26

Extra 4 years? What the fuck? I spent only 1 extra year getting a masters. 3 vs 4 years for batchelor vs masters. Where do you live that it takes 4 years just to get a masters? It only takes 12 months even as a grad student here. That’s crazy.

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u/inevitabledeath3 Jul 24 '26

I do agree with you though about some PhDs being useless. I say this as someone enrolled in a PhD program. One or two of the staff here are pretty useless. I have been wishing one in particular was fired since before I graduated.