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My life has been moving too fast the past 2 months. I don't know where they went. Well, I do know. I developed a job I (sort of) hate and a girlfriend I love. I became a brother for the first time in my life. I had lots and lots of deep thoughts but none that I felt like sharing with such a diverse and contextless audience. Well, I had one, and I've let it stew a while. Here it is:
99.9% of all job descriptions I have ever seen on the internet either require high school education, i.e. I'm incredibly overqualified, or a bachelor's degree plus 3 years of experience, i.e. as a recent college graduate who went straight through right out of high school, I don't come close to qualifying.
What this says to me is that college degrees, even in a technical field, are increasingly being looked at as worthless.
But then again, I don't know. The requisition for the job I'm work at right now is still online. (how's that for a lack of job security?) They wanted a guy with three years of experience in sales. They got a guy with 0 years of experience in sales and a (still) unknown level of interest in sales. I was honest about both of these things in the interview, shocked that I was even called because I had applied by accident. Are these people lying on their job descriptions? Are people by the millions lying in their job interviews? Should I join them? Should I apply for more, better jobs that I don't qualify for in a strict sense? Why does that feel dirty?
Another thought is perhaps by "three years of experience" many employers simply don't want someone who's right out of school and fresh faced; they want someone who's been on their own a while no matter what they were doing. That I can understand. I just think it's really dumb.
99.9% of all job descriptions I have ever seen on the internet either require high school education, i.e. I'm incredibly overqualified, or a bachelor's degree plus 3 years of experience, i.e. as a recent college graduate who went straight through right out of high school, I don't come close to qualifying.
What this says to me is that college degrees, even in a technical field, are increasingly being looked at as worthless.
But then again, I don't know. The requisition for the job I'm work at right now is still online. (how's that for a lack of job security?) They wanted a guy with three years of experience in sales. They got a guy with 0 years of experience in sales and a (still) unknown level of interest in sales. I was honest about both of these things in the interview, shocked that I was even called because I had applied by accident. Are these people lying on their job descriptions? Are people by the millions lying in their job interviews? Should I join them? Should I apply for more, better jobs that I don't qualify for in a strict sense? Why does that feel dirty?
Another thought is perhaps by "three years of experience" many employers simply don't want someone who's right out of school and fresh faced; they want someone who's been on their own a while no matter what they were doing. That I can understand. I just think it's really dumb.