[joebob42]

This is maybe kind of rude, and hopefully it doesn't come off this way, but where were you still getting the message that degree = job? Not that a degree doesn't help, but I graduated 10 years ago and the message was already pretty clear across the media I interacted with that that was no longer the lived experience / that you needed to be thinking about your major and the future it might offer because just having a degree was not a magic ticket.

[xboxnolifes]

> that you needed to be thinking about your major and the future it might offer because just having a degree was not a magic ticket.

A CS degree was the major people "should have been thinking about" until recently.

[tayo42]

This was my experience.

We never really recovered from the 08 crash imo. That was a changing point I think that doesn't get enough attention.

[astrange]

We did recover, in 2019 and then again in 2024.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

Literally nobody noticed because everyone had covid trauma the second time, so we had a "vibecession" where everyone felt like there was a recession because they wanted there to be one.

[yash1hi]

Not wrong! The degree was always the stepping stone, and even for me I was always told work experience would make the difference. But now having graduated college 2 years early, with 2 high quality internships under my belt, my options are slim. Thankfully, I love what I do and don’t plan to ever stop doing it, but I feel bad for the people that “did everything right” and still aren’t landing jobs.