Is university a waste of time?

[rocketpig]

ferret1603 said:
@Legend11 Sociology. Big mistake. I wanted to do something more vocational but people (teachers, careers advisors, etc) were telling me to do an academic degree to "keep my options open". If I'd done a vocational degree in marketing or graphic design or something I doubt I'd be having this problem as everywhere seems to want specialist degrees. Anyone who did something like history, English, sociology, politics, psychology, etc gets to fight over the scraps.

Go back and beat every one of those people into a bloody pulp. They fucked you hard.

Damn, sorry to hear that. A degree that teaches you how to do something is infinitely more valuable than a degree that teaches you knowledge. You can get knowledge on your own but it's a lot harder to learn how to do something by yourself.

It's a damned shame that most of the education system is full of people who know nothing except academia, yet they are the ones who are supposed to teach kids how to do something in the real world and make a productive life for themselves. It's almost criminal that your advisors told you to stick with an academic degree. Shame on them.