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Comment by raw_anon_1111

7 days ago

You think most people spend tens of thousands of dollars on college and expect not to be employable?

In my experience the places worth working for care about cornerstone principles far more than the hot buzzwords on a resume.

  • Well if you don’t have a job, the places worth working for is the one that will pay you in exchange for your labor so you aren’t homeless, hungry and naked.

    A junior developer can’t say “you know what I don’t want to work for your company because you don’t value cornerstone principals. I would rather sleep on the street”

What you're after is a technical college with vocational training. They are definitely important and have their place. Some students at university would be better off going to technical colleges. But technical colleges are not the same as what universities do.

  • Considering how many are struggling to find a job, evidently it’s the universities that need to change.

Exactly. Why are people so repulsed by the idea a college degree may give you some kind of employable skill. Like, “Ew gross, they taught git in CS 101, how dare they degrade the purity of our scientific education.