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Yeah but now all you have is a degree in Italian
Jokes on them my degree has no bearing on my ability to be on time
Yeah I didn’t show up on time to classes or labs. I just finished my labs first and best so it was fine
Turns out most of the white collar world runs like that too- show up early, late, or not at all; if your deliverables hit the bosses' desk by deadline, you're cream of the crop.
My manager has a bee in his bonnet about people being in on time, and he will come and yell at everybody if he notices someone turning up at about 9:15 rather than 9:00. The thing is he gets in it about 6:00 and then goes home at 3:30 and disappears from about 10:00 till 2:00 on a massive lunch, my official start time is 9:30 but often he isn't actually in the main office, so how the hell does he know if people are turning up on time.
So we don't. He's hasn't noticed.
Yeah I would just find a new job tbh
That's what they say, but in practice it's just a class filter. Punctuality and hoop jumping matters MUCH MORE in blue collar jobs than white collar.
It's literally just saying "your family was wealthy enough that you weren't forced to enter the labor market to support your relatives when you were a teenager".
I bootstrapped my way through college because poor family. But at 40 I’m making more than all but one cousin in my entire extended family, aunts/uncles/grandparents all make less than me because none of them went to college save for that one cousin. My degree was in organizational communication and was absolutely the thing that opened the doorway for me, and as much as I loved the major, it’s technically useless.
Most of those jobs aren't worth the debt.
Indeed, foreign language teaching and translation work are made significantly easier to get into if you have a degree.
Can we stop pretending language models know things?
Hey, just because they are handsome and beautiful doesn’t mean they aren’t smart!
Yeah I wouldn't ask chatGPT to do research on my behalf, who knows what industry fluff piece article it's scraped that text from.
Getting started with research, i.e. a first draft at an essay, sure. But you can't trust the information in these LLMs.
To do that, you'll need to do some lateral reading.
Yeah none of the jobs I've ever had have cared at all what my degree is in, it just shows that you can put up with bullshit for at least 3 years without having a freakout.