>got a shitty college degree
>now realize i dont want anything to do with it and will go for a trade instead
Is this common? Also is there any reason to not go for electrianship?
>got a shitty college degree. >now realize i dont want anything to do with it and will go for a trade instead
what's the degree? did you give us little to no info because you wanted people to ask?
BA in gender studies. Yeah yeah I know what you're thinking, it's not like that. I only did it for the women. Turns out half the 'women' in that major weren't actually women. Well long story short I got a guy pregnant and now just want to distance myself from that whole scene. So what trades would you guys recommend?
You should apply as a janny for r/thathappened.
lmfao, well done
>Majors in gender studies
>For the women
Rookie mistake. You fricked up on the step where you did something for women
I didnt mention it because it's basically non-pertinent, homosexual. But if you're so fricking curious - it's BA in history.
I'm sorry, moron, but I will not be insulated by the kind of human detritus that chooses history as a major.
Becoming an electrician might be a good choice just because I'm sure that you'll end up electrocuting yourself and in turn bring great value to this world.
It was very pertinent.
Also don't throw rocks from your glass house, stupid.
Please grow as a person but more importantly, try to swim from California to Japan.
Thank you. I hope you understand that what kind of person you are is very much pertinent to the topic of this thread. You'd think someone that's studied history would understand that the education someone has received can give you insights on what kind of person someone is.
Eat a mango or something.
You got a real insight into human nature. Must be a psychology major who got lost.
Close.
I got an MA in Business.
accurate
also accurate
reddit harder
My coworker (a Controls tech like me) has a BA in history. I have an associates in auto tech. My other friend has an associates in engineering. Its not uncommon.
>associates in engineering
But that's an actual useful degree...
Also, what's auto tech? Is that like mechanical engineering?
I have that same degree, it means he didn't have enough confidence to work as a car mechanic without a piece of paper to reassure himself. Now he goes to work every day, with a terrible fear. Every job is an opportunity to reveal myself as the fraud I am. My fear of disappointing others keeps me awake at night. I dwell on less than perfect repairs and worst of all, my mistakes.
My sense of self worth, my self image is tied to my job title and performance. It's unhealthy, but if I don't work as a mechanic, my parents would be less likely to help me out through financial difficulties. However, I wouldn't have financial difficulty if I wasn't a mechanic. I know life is hard, but frick man, it's so hard.
You guys went to university to qualify as a mechanic? In Australia it's a four year apprenticeship (practical experience) and maybe a few certificates from a trade school (called TAFE here) that takes a month at most.
2 year program, yeah, and there are certs called ASE's and once you get in the field, all the old techs just say "those don't mean shit, why'd you bother"
Well, are the boomer techs right or do you actually need to do the ASEs etc?
Literally all you had to do was bleed my brakes,
Nah it means I didnt know what to do with my life or much about cars out of HS. As it turns out i was only a car mechanic for about 6 months after graduating, but my piece of paper has opened some doors for me, like this one. Sounds like you dont enjoy being an auto tech so I recommend industrial maintenance instead.
ASEs are good for getting a pay raise and thats it. Experience is what makes you good. But salty old mechanics are really the most hardheaded people I have ever met, if sliced bread was invented tomorrow they would talk shit about how kids cant rip up their own bread anymore.
Good idea re: industrial maintenance. I've done both and while knowing cars has been good to me industrial work is MUCH more interesting.
>associates in engineering
>useful
What the frick are you talking about, it's not useful at all
Consider where you want to go long-term. If your degree is from a half way decent school, it signals both the ability to complete a large task and a minimum level of intelligence. It's not a management degree but if at some point you decide you're tried of doing actual trade work out in the field, having that degree in your past will make the transition to management easier. Do ten years or so hands on, getting to know the business at a deep practical level, and then you can move into the white collar side of things with a lot more insight into how the business actually operates and what's possible than the kid who went straight to grad school for an MBA after completing a Business Administration degree.
Hey man I pretty much did the same thing with a similar degree. BA in English lit. Just as useless, if not more worse.
I started doing electrical and did it for 2 years but found it extremely boring and uncreative. I switched to masonry and now I do a lot of stone and concrete work which is fun but long term it's hard on my body.
If you're in your early 20s there's plenty of time to switch around in a few trades if you want, so just get into something and see how you like it.
You're just trying to run from the future
I got a useless degree in accounting for some reason. The only thing I've ever been very good at is computers and I have been doing software development for years. Which is kind of a trade in a way, a white collar trade but you don't need any special degree to do most of it, experience matters more so I just started at some really shitty jobs and worked my way up.
hey can you recommend me some programs to keep track of my finances?
Up until now I've just been logging my shit in an excel file but I imagine there are dedicated programs for that stuff.
There probably are tons of apps to do what you want, but unless you want some shit that logs into your banking accounts you should be able to do fine with a spreadsheet if you have any skill, and the bar is not high. I have a libreCalc sheet and enter all credit card purchases in it along with any orders or bills that are paid. I have one "sheet" for each credit card and checking account, and a summary sheet that pulls all the balances together, and plots it over time so I can easily see the trend. Once a week I log into all my accounts and if the balances match I'm done, otherwise I look for the differences.
I can't imagine any sort of "dedicated program" that would be as good as a spreadsheet where you can do anything you like.
Yeah I guess you're right. Thank you!
:3
Actually I just use a spreadsheet too. One sheet in the same document for every year since I started doing that, to track spending.
Credit Union
Open multiple sub-accounts, savings and checking.
Transfers are only authorized by you through their app. Manually, or on an automated schedule.
Every month or whatever your pay period, amounts are dumped into Insurance Savings, Project Savings, Recurring payments (that's a checking account), and, as long as those recurring withdrawals are the same or nearly so, one vendor isn't crowding out another, and at the end of the month. the balance is near zero.
Money for stipend, like gas and food, goes into a specific POS account you spend from.
Savings receives a certain amount.
A key thing here: it's earmarked. You know what particular purpose a money was sent to an account for. And once it is out of the main deposit account (which has no debit card attached, for security), it stays in whatever foreign account that is. You know then that balance is not to be touched, and that your only spending money should be from your stipend account.
Now, expand this into an LLC which owns everything and pays no taxes, and has a tax-free purchasing account at the stores that have that (all your corporate big box stores). Teddy Kennedy said just before he passed: 'I don't even own the shirt on my back.' Regardless of whatever piece of detritus he was, that statement is correct, and you'll see it repeated by many such people. Your second lesson is ownership is vested in the fiction, because ownership itself is an unnatural concept.What matters is control and possession, to living, breathing people. Taxes from a monetary system that doesn't exist, which is hypothecated out of nothing, were invented for poor people, who don't understand that.
My question is how are you so unworldly that you think _anything_ that happens to you could conceivably be unique/uncommon?
People shit outta their mouths one day and they're like "wow nobody has ever shit outta their mouth before, I'm super special, what a unique scenario."
Guess what homosexual, a hundred thousand people a day probably shit outta their mouth that hour. It is like that with absolutely everything. Even winning the lotto. You're not the goddamn first.
This unique belief is so common that almost every dipshit at some point thinks "no one understands me" and actually means it.
No, it's not uncommon to chose a different fricking road in life. Christ. Fricking hate people like you.
Anyway just roll with different things until something fits. I believe in you.
I was asking "is this common" basically hoping that someone like me would show up and share their experiences. I didn't expect so many blue-collar type people to be sensitive pussies who get their panties in a twist over this thread, which to me seemed pretty inoffensive. Sad!
I don't want to dissuade you from the trades but you will need to get thicker skin. Tradies like to talk shit, it's their way of bonding. If you let it get to you, you're not going to last very long.
That said, most people I know with history degrees ended up going into teaching. Not necessarily teaching history but in general elementary school level teaching. A few went on to teach high school, in which case they usually were limited to teaching history.
>get a history degree so you can teach history to people who will get history degrees to teach more history...
lmfao what a useless degree