Gen Z Is Overestimating the Average Starting Salary by $50K, Survey Finds

Re:Gen Z Is Overestimating the Average Starting Salary by $5... by giantg2 on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:19PM (#32611606)

I learned plenty of things in college. The real question is how much of it is stuff I actually use today, especially for my job.

Calculus - no, literature - no, Spanish - no, English - no (HS level is sufficient), cryptography - no, networking - no, COBOL - no, assembly - no, business minor classes - barely, all those liberal arts - nope.

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Re:Gen Z Is Overestimating the Average Starting Salary by $5... by shellfisher on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:59PM (#32614152)

And yet, had you not learned to program, a programming job right out of college would have been out of reach.

So it’s possible to learn something at college that makes you 10 times more valuable for a particular job.

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Re:Gen Z Is Overestimating the Average Starting Salary by $5... by giantg2 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:33AM (#32617881)

I learned how to program in HS. A bootcamp could also teach someone how to program. So could an associates degree. But employers just want the credentials of a BS or MS. For whatever reason, associate degrees are uncommon and looked down upon.

So sure, you could learn something useful in college, but there are more efficient/cheaper ways to do it. A lot of college is waste due to excessive employer demands for credentials and bureaucratic school requirements (liberal arts, foreign languages, etc).

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