TheHatedOne
Death is salvation
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2,028
FuneralCry
Just wanting some peace
- Sep 24, 2020
- 44,974
Life certainly is stressful and tiring. I understand it is hard to carry on when you have reached your limit. The only thing I want is to be free from this world. I'm sorry you are suffering, I wish you the best.
We can stay in school and end uo with shitty grades so what's the point
Why so he can get a pointless degree in something he hates?
Degrees aren't pointless. You can use them to leverage a successful career to financially support yourself
TheHatedOne
Death is salvation
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2,028
Many people who have a degree still work in fast food or retail shit jobs. A degree doesn't guarantee you a good job.
BeautifulMosaics
Specialist
- Aug 15, 2021
- 310
Exactly. Don't kill yourself if you think you can be happy without a degree. There are trades and apprenticeships that can give you a great career. Young people killing themselves because they are told there are no other options is tragic.
TheHatedOne
Death is salvation
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2,028
The thing is that I'm too dumb for such a thing. The reason why I chose to study foreign languages is that it's the only thing in this life I'm slightly good at. Maybe history too, but it's too overlooked in our society that says if you aren't a doctor, lawyer, engineer, programmer or anything related to STEM in general you're a failure doomed to work at a fast food.
To quote an old Johnny Mercer lyric from 1937:
We're working our way through college,
To get a lot of knowledge
That we'll probably never ever use again.
It helps a lot to know you've got a nice diploma,
But will it pay the mortgage on the home sweet home-a?
We're getting an education
To run a filling station,
For they never take anyone but college men.
Oh you've got to know
your Cicero,
your Hannibal and Caesar,
To wipe the glass,
Inspect the gas
and say, "How many please, Sir?"
And mathematics is the thing we've got to know,
Working our way through college on the old man's dough.
That STEM thing only applies if at least one of the following conditions holds:
1) You have specialised in an applied field/discipline
2) You are good with computers
3) You enjoy/are good at teaching
If you hate teaching, are bad with computers and specialised in abstract matters, your STEM degree is pretty much useless.
KuriGohan&Kamehameha
想死不能 - 想活不能
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1,809
How many years do you have left of university? I am in a similar boat, so I can relate to how trapped you must be feeling right now, stuck studying for a degree that causes you nothing but stress and strife.
It is tragic that a great number of things most people take for granted in life, the few things that bring color and fascination to a dull and grey hellscape, are seen as useless epistemological dead ends. Nooo, you can't study literature, linguistics, art, music, or any other humanities subject, or your career will be in the toilet!
Despite the fact that we engage with artistry and creativity on a daily basis (languages are essential too) our work culture and economic system have devalued these skills in favor of a highly specialised technocracy.
Don't beat yourself up because you picked a field of study that interests you. There are very few choices we can truly make in life, and it's far better to engage with your passion than slog through a nightmarish STEM degree that you hate.
I hope soon the economic situation improves and you aren't forced into a low paying wage slave job. Teaching would be an option with a foreign language qualification, if you wanted to pursue that. Multilingual people are quite rare in many places.
It is tragic that a great number of things most people take for granted in life, the few things that bring color and fascination to a dull and grey hellscape, are seen as useless epistemological dead ends. Nooo, you can't study literature, linguistics, art, music, or any other humanities subject, or your career will be in the toilet!
Despite the fact that we engage with artistry and creativity on a daily basis (languages are essential too) our work culture and economic system have devalued these skills in favor of a highly specialised technocracy.
Don't beat yourself up because you picked a field of study that interests you. There are very few choices we can truly make in life, and it's far better to engage with your passion than slog through a nightmarish STEM degree that you hate.
I hope soon the economic situation improves and you aren't forced into a low paying wage slave job. Teaching would be an option with a foreign language qualification, if you wanted to pursue that. Multilingual people are quite rare in many places.
Makko
Iä!
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2,430
Creative jobs are in a less demand than jobs where you destroy something. The modernist talk about "problem solution" doesn't mean what people think it means. Anyone who ever dealt with problems will realise that the most effective response is not to create a solution but to destroy the problem. Rational employers hunger for specialist competencies in various kinds of destruction and should you become a master of destruction your career can only be brilliant.
Insomniac
𝔄 𝔲 𝔱 𝔦 𝔰 𝔪
- May 21, 2021
- 1,356
this is so accurate. everyone knows you have to sacrifice something of equal value to create value. most people who are brilliant at their job either sacrifice human connection or the environment.
Yziar
Member
- Aug 11, 2021
- 24
in pain
Member
- Sep 27, 2021
- 51
I hated university too, decided to quit at 2.5 years into my degree, everyone thought I was crazy. Decided to go to a local college and do something I actually enjoyed doing, it was much easier and more practical and led to an amazing although short career because of declining health. Best decision of my life, I felt alive and in control again, where as with university I always had anxiety and depression.
