• Porto881@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    “Well what subject did you like best in school?” Is the worst way to choose a major and it’s terrible that college recruiters use it to rope fresh-HS graduates into signing up.

    For anyone considering college in the next few years, you should really consider college as a career prep rather than a place to simply learn more. Unless you’ve got the money and support network to just dilly dally for 4+ years, you should be going in knowing 100% what you want to be doing with your life and make sure that courses you’re taking the the connections you make are getting you there.

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      18 hours ago

      Easier said than done. At that age, with no professional experience, it is really hard to know what you want to do for the rest of your life.

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        12 hours ago

        No it isn’t. People just don’t think about it….like ever. It also requires being honest with yourself which is a too tall order for most.

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        16 hours ago

        there’s no law that says you need to do college at 18. i started at 26, and it would’ve been a waste before that. i hadn’t even discovered any learning passions until just a couple years before that.

        so maybe just avoid that problem like i did?