When I was in school, I was always told “If you get a college degree you’ll on average make 500k more over the life time of your career regardless of what you get your degree in!”

Then as I finishing school, it was all about “If you get into tech you’ll make big bucks and always have jobs!”

Both of those have turned out not great for a lot of people.

Then whenever women say they’re struggling with money online, they get pointed to OF… which pays nothing to 99% of creators. Also very presumptive to suggest that, but we don’t even need to get into that.

So is there a field/career strategy that you feel like is currently being over pushed?

(My examples are USA, Nevada/Utah is where I grew up, if maybe it’s different in other parts of USA even.)

  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Also in IT, I’m not as frequent a job hopper as some but it’s how I climbed the ladder to where I am today. Ultimately companies don’t give a fuck about you and just care about their profits so they will pay you as little as they can. Your only time to get more $ is when they’re vulnerable and hiring cause they need you.