Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by toast0 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:27PM (#26827871)

Part of what a 4 year college degree shows is that you can stick with something for four years. Combined with some of your other responses, I think it might be a good thing to have under your belt.

Also, depending on the college scene, you might have more opportunities to socialize with lots of people which you may have missed with your home schooling.

Depending on where you live, community college varies from amazingly affordable to right around the same as a state university. Check on student aid as well.

Sometimes you have to jump through the hoops to show you can.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by rokobobo on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:19PM (#26828242)

Seconded. If you aren't willing to go through school, why would you be willing to take up a job? Most entry-level jobs will generally be even more boring, require more discipline and jumping through the kind of hoops that you will not enjoy. Unless someone sees a sort of a raw genius in you, they will probably not take a gamble on you.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by the_only_law on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:55AM (#26831816)

One reason I assume is that a degree is taking tens of thousands of dollars from you whereas the entry level job will be giving that to you.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by ZephyrBlu on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:48PM (#26828437)

Because university and work are completely different environments.

University is very academic, work is very practical.

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