A young California friend said his parents told him, “Get an education in something that you’ll enjoy.” That’s only good advice if you enjoy unemployment, or flipping burgers.
Do some big-time research if you’re considering a career path, or raising children who will need to. Find the careers of the future, not the careers of four years ago, before AI. Unless you want to live in your parents basement until you’re 45, or live on your parents wealth or government subsidies once you get married and have children, it has somewhat more importance that you find a job that you’re qualified for because of the money and time you spent in education, than having fun in college. If everything was fun, they wouldn’t have to pay you money for it. Just sayin’.
If you can have both an enjoyable day and they pay you money for that, more power to you. But offering skills and effort for a paycheck is how it really works. Bringing four times more profit or savings to your company than your annual salary — might actually be slightly more tedious than we would like.
Fun is what hobbies and families are for. Again, if you can get the skills or degree in an area that is easy to find a job in, get paid well, and live in a geography you prefer, all the while enjoying what you do in the workplace, more power to you. But having fun isn’t the greatest goal if you’re trying to provide for your family, buy a house, and have money for travel and nice things.
Figure out in advance where job openings, nice pay, and “tolerable or fun” job requirements all overlap, if you can. But, two out of three ain’t bad.
The share of 2024 M.B.A.s still on the market months after graduation more than doubled at most highly ranked business schools when compared with 2022, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of school data. At some, including the University of Chicago’s Booth School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, the share of students still looking more than tripled.
The days of college equals a job, and a masters equals a good job, are over.
“Companies tell us, ‘We’re not coming to campus anymore,’” Zenner added.
The super-selective environment isn’t a blip, but a new reality, HBS’s Fitzpatrick said.
Wall Street Journal https://lnkd.in/emweVZXh
