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I'm finishing uni soon and I have zero clue what the fuck to do
| You feel lost? I'm just getting a bachelor degree on that, and I'm an international student with bad grades on the US trying to economically make it to my graduation and find a job, because I DO NOT want to go back to my country (I'm Venezuelan... which already makes everything worst)...
If you find an answer, let me know. Please...
>hugs you
| I think most people have no idea what they want to do. They just find something by chance, take that chance and settle down. It should be a fairly natural process... Btw, I'm on my second year of uni, I have to option to leave on the third and go find work or do a master's degree.
| I'm also a CS student, no idea what I'm going to do because there's no market for CS in my country. I thought about going to Poland and applying for a job at GOG, coding or not, I'd just like to work for them because I found their service friendly and I'd like to contribute in some way. That's just a fantasy though, I need to earn some money and stabilize before actually having a shot at doing something I like.
| God damn, I guess I could just find a shitty job and code as a hobby... Godspeed, friends.
| >meanwhile I can't even afford college
I still get it though, I feel the same way sometimes. I just don't know what to do
| Btw, even if anyone things that finding a job beats going to college. Please, try to continue with your education. Is thr option that gives the most oportunities on the long run.
| Just go look for jobs and don't count on landing a dream job right away. Remember the a-b-c of jobs: any job, better job, career.
| >>103287
I second this. Work seems glorious and rewarding when you are a student. But it only takes a couple of years to understand that work is doing what you are told to do and boring, while study was all interesting and abstract and full of learning interesting things. And of course the opposite sex members everywhere. And you miss that time and wish it came back, but it wont.
| >>103328
>study was all interesting and abstract and full of learning interesting things
No, it's not. Instead it's exactly >doing what you are told to do and boring
Don't really care about the opposite sex members, and there aren't a lot of them either.
>>103299
The shitty thing is, leaving a job is frowned upon where I'm from. Sometimes to an extreme extent. Makes you seem "unreliable" to your potential employers, from what I've heard.
| >>103446 isn't leaving a job frowned upon pretty much anywhere? you'll have to come up with an excuse to why you've left your previous job, on your next interview
| >>103482
Idunno. I've heard that in more developed countries it's okay to look for a better place for yourself. Something to do with knowing your value and following ambitions.
| >>103757
Only if you have a good reason for it and you are in good terms with your higher ups. If you leave because you had an argument with them, you can pretty much fuck up your entire work history.
| >>103328
While I agree that rushing in to work is a bad idea, especially if you lack the social skills (which is literally the only big point of being in school), and you don't know how to interact with people, I wouldn't fully support the "just stay in school" model.
The idea of "you'll miss the time of being in school" and "job is a deadbore and is a chore" is exactly why. I've found my teaching job to be WAY better than my times at uni.
Job isn't always a chore if you enjoy it
| Of course, that's a blanket statement, and I know everyone's experience is different. I've seen my coworkers, who seem to have the worst time ever (especially the newly assigned teachers), and kept lamenting on how they thought "having a job would be better."
But again, this goes on how you perceive your job. I love mine, and I absolutely know why I would hate it (if that ever happens).
| >>103771
how is teaching for you? and what level? have always had like highschool programming and language teaching as an end goal, but womderimg if its worth the lack of money
| >>103844
I teach English in a junior high school nearby, but I also do private lessons in computer usage (video editing, photo editing, etc) and web development basics.
I used to teach for a high school as well, but due to constraints and other issues, I moved to the JHS.
Teaching has always been a mixed bag. In plain sight, it's stressing: I deal with kids and they can make or break your day easily. (Cont. below)
| However, those kids, like I said, can make your day (and even year if you're lucky!). Similar to how a relationship goes awkwardly at first, being a teacher and having new set of students to teach can take a while to get used to (even if you're a senior teacher).
Once the latter semester starts, the "awkward" becomes "normal", and you can see the kids, whose proficiency were minimum at first, grow to a more experienced people.
| The feeling of passing down my knowledge down to others has always been my dream. Seeing these kids grow, slowly, to adults and carrying on the knowledge I had (and improving on them) is no other than a great achievement for me.
I even had a few of my students invite me to their reunion. It felt oh-so-nostalgic, and I can't picture how warmth it feels to see the students you've taught be a better person than they were.
| — Apart from that, let's talk about the technicalities of the job itself: it's a headache.
Sometimes students won't listen to any of your materials, and sometimes when you hand the students a test and only 10 students have a grade higher than C. Moments like these makes me reevaluate "am I even doing good at my job?"
Being a teacher is being responsible to the students you teach, but also keeping up with the mess of the school (and its organization) itself.
| But rest assured, once I found my ways around these and I have found the perfect chemistry with my students, teaching became less of a headache and a chore; it forms a hobby I like and I dearly enjoy even to this day.
| As for the "lack of money".. I can't say for you, but I rarely encounter any serious monetary issues. Of course, that being said, your mileage may vary. I have seen teachers quit due to their job not paying enough of their bills — that too, is a valid cause to not be teacher.
| (ID changed. Thank you, highly unstable mobile data.)
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| Like, sure, I'm getting a masters degree in Computer Sciences, that maybe can get me a half-decent job. But that's not what I'd like to do. I like writing code. Don't even care what kind of code, I just like figuring out a solution for real-life problems via writing lines of code that solve whatever I need to solve. I would also like to make vidya, but the industry is dead where I'm from, so whatever, it's just a childish fantasy.
Idunno. I feel lost. Please just hug me, someone.