Best degree, qualification to get for a higher paying job

[GoldKiller]

I've figured the job market is fucked and I'm not getting any younger either so whilst I work and earn 2-3k a month I am going to study at an open university or do a course to qualify me for something. Any suggestions

 

[;-;]

learn to programming

 

[User28823]

Grind leetcode for 6 months to a year + do personal projects and then land a job at FAANG as a software engineer

 

[hebbewem]

Lawyers do fine same with doctors and surguenos

 

[GoldKiller]

programming just sounds shit though. Why does everyone recommend then

 

[Deleted member 19453]

programming just sounds shit though. Why does everyone recommend then

good pay good benefits and it's not manual labor

 

[Deleted member 5815]

software engineering

 

[MentalistKebab]

Computer software engineering, or med school / dentistry.

Stop listening other people, these are the only degrees which you will be able to make money as an employee.

"Bbbuuuttt brooo, what if he makes his business?"

Then he wouldnt need other useless degrees in the first place, so we return to zero.

Basically a programmer or doctor.

 

[PubertyMaxxer]

Start a business bra

 

[JovenCansao]

Only learn programming if you're planning something mid term, as you can see from all the npcs in this thread recommending that shit to everyone, it will be flooded in the next decade.

 

[ThunderBolt]

DON'T LEARN ONLY PROGRAMMING, IT'S FOR NPCS, EVEN INDIANS DO IT. Learn proper engineering, any real engineering, not computer science or shit like this. Programming is also learnt on the engineering but it's more secondary cause many curries work for free

 

[SoberAndRetarded]

my engineering friends do quite well at mid to late 20s already (95k/year with masters)

 

[GoldKiller]

my engineering friends do quite well at mid to late 20s already (95k/year with masters)

You need to be smart to be an engineer and good at math. Sadly I doubt my intelligence would take me far enough to be any good. I have an education though

 

[Deleted member 23554]

my engineering friends do quite well at mid to late 20s already (95k/year with masters)

how much money per month is good for us?

 

[johnsmithcel]

learn to programming

Grind leetcode for 6 months to a year + do personal projects and then land a job at FAANG as a software engineer

good pay good benefits and it's not manual labor

software engineering

Are you guys not worried about AI takeover? I’m in my 2nd year and am worried my degree will be useless 10 years after I graduate.

 

[Deleted member 25667]

• Medicine
• Finance
• Engineering
• Computer Science
• Law

Get a bachelors and/or masters degree for any of these from a top uni in your country and you should pretty much be comfortable for life

 

[Deleted member 19453]

Are you guys not worried about AI takeover? I’m in my 2nd year and am worried my degree will be useless 10 years after I graduate.

specialize in machine learning and you'll be the one making people's degrees useless

 

[johnsmithcel]

specialize in machine learning and you'll be the one making people's degrees useless

Might do a master’s in it or something after. Wouldn’t you have to be really high IQ for that? I’m just not lol. I was hoping to make 50k a year or so being a codemonkey.

 

[flippasav]

how much money per month is good for us?

Programmer

 

[Deleted member 23554]

Programmer

probably replied to the wrong person

 

[Deleted member 19453]

Might do a master’s in it or something after. Wouldn’t you have to be really high IQ for that? I’m just not lol. I was hoping to make 50k a year or so being a codemonkey.

I heard tensorflow and pytorch make it easier but it’s still one of the hardest if not the hardest specialization in computer science.You’ll also need to learn advance probability and linear algebra.

 

[johnsmithcel]

I heard tensorflow and pytorch make it easier but it’s still one of the hardest if not the hardest specialization in computer science.You’ll also need to learn advance probability and linear algebra.

Yeah probably not for me then. Unless there’s different tiers to it and i’m in the lowest one.

 

[Deleted member 11126]

Lawyers do fine same with doctors and surguenos

Being a lawyer isn't what it was...

I've talked with a few high paying lawyers the advice they gave to me was go to a top 14 law school or don't bother. Only way you can ever succeed outside of a top law school and those connections is by being a Saul Goodman type character which I doubt you could do.

There are much more Lawyers then their are actual Law jobs. Lots of people who get dumb majors will just go to Law school if they cannot find employment. Any reasonable Law firm will assume your retarded unless you make it into a top 14 school. Not to mention even if you can do that you gotta work 60 hour weeks for some rat race office maybe by the time your 55 you could start your own firm and make a million but at least till 30 you will be semi poor

 

[LooksOrDeath]

Being a lawyer isn't what it was...

I've talked with a few high paying lawyers the advice they gave to me was go to a top 14 law school or don't bother. Only way you can ever succeed outside of a top law school and those connections is by being a Saul Goodman type character which I doubt you could do.

Law school hypergamy is brutal.
Average law grad in the UK barely makes 25k pounds
Oxbridge Law graduate makes 70k pounds

 

[LooksOrDeath]

how much money per month is good for us?

assuming single
60k per year for low cost of living area
100k per year for high col area, with accomodation for traveling, hanging out etc.

 

[Deleted member 23554]

assuming single
60k per year for low cost of living area
100k per year for high col area, with accomodation for traveling, hanging out etc.

i even mog americancels

 

[Deleted member 11126]

Law school hypergamy is brutal.
Average law grad in the UK barely makes 25k pounds
Oxbridge Law graduate makes 70k pounds

70K pounds isn't even that much what is that that like 90,000 USD?

In the USA you would graduate with like 200-300 thousand in debt. Being a lawyer is good if you got connections or a genuine passion but its not what it once was. I would say being a doctor is more safe

 

[LooksOrDeath]

70K pounds isn't even that much what is that that like 90,000 USD?

Yeah percentile wise its equivalent to making 200k USD in America

The point is that the place you graduate from has a huge correlation to your salary as a law student

In the USA you would graduate with like 200-300 thousand in debt

In the UK you would have less debt but the decreased salary balances it out

 

[Deleted member 11126]

Yeah percentile wise its equivalent to making 200k USD in America

The point is that the place you graduate from has a huge correlation to your salary as a law student

In the UK you would have less debt but the decreased salary balances it out

That's always seemed crazy to me. 90K is a very good salary starting out but do you mean average salary overall or starting out?

 

[LooksOrDeath]

That's always seemed crazy to me. 90K is a very good salary starting out but do you mean average salary overall or starting out?

Starting outt, I think the data is for 6 months after graduating

salaries for oxbridge-LSE lawyers further in their careers are kind of insane from what I have heard, equal to or more than what their american equivalents make

 

[Deleted member 11126]

Starting outt, I think the data is for 6 months after graduating

salaries for oxbridge-LSE lawyers further in their careers are kind of insane from what I have heard, equal to or more than what their american equivalents make

I mean its pretty good yeah... But it just wouldn't be as insane here 7 years in school and 300K in debt.

If you spent that amount of time in CS for example you could easily make more then 6 figures

 

[LooksOrDeath]

I mean its pretty good yeah... But it just wouldn't be as insane here 7 years in school and 300K in debt.

If you spent that amount of time in CS for example you could easily make more then 6 figures

Yeah CS mogs for salary, esp if you're not social

 

[User28823]

Are you guys not worried about AI takeover? I’m in my 2nd year and am worried my degree will be useless 10 years after I graduate.

Go speak to anyone working in industry and they will laugh at you for those concerns. You won't be replaced by AI, you'll be replaced by someone good at using the AI since that's all it is, a tool. Also, once you work in industy you'll realize that writing code is only 10% of your responsibility as a software engineer.