23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI

Re:23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees hav... by dijit on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:51AM (#40334949)

I think men are looked down on if they go back to study, take an unpaid internship, become house-husbands (IE; non-breadwinners), exclusively attempt a creative endeavour (high risk enjoyable pursuits are seen as self-indulgent and lazy) or if they change career later in life (after 28~).

If I think the same of women, I do not believe that we would typically look down on them or consider them bad people in the same way for being somehow deficient in capability (IE; "a loser") or shirking responsibility if they decided to do those things.

In this sense, those opportunities can be considered effectively closed to them.

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Re:23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees hav... by singleshot_ on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:15AM (#40335138)

I went back to study, took on an unpaid internship, and changed careers later in life. It was awesome and it seems to make a lot of people who stuck to their first career jealous. You may look down on men such as me, but most people appear not to do so.

I admit I don't know too much about the house-husband or the creative endeavor.

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Re:23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees hav... by dijit on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:18AM (#40335156)

I don't look down on you, I consider myself a bit more egalitarian in my principles than that.

Is your notion then that you did not face social stigma? That would be an interesting counter-anecdote to what I said, may I ask where you live?

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