In The Age Of AI, Is College/University Still Worth It?

[Prince.Skeletor]

Firstly I’m very biased
I would call myself successful in my IT career and even changed career paths 4 times in my life.
And the most I have is a high school degree, that’s it.

I never really believed in College or Uni.

Now I have to decide what will I tell my kids to do.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

 

[Illuminatos]

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Two responses above
What???

 

[CopiousX]

Firstly I’m very biased
I would call myself successful in my IT career and even changed career paths 4 times in my life.
And the most I have is a high school degree, that’s it.

I never really believed in College or Uni.

Now I have to decide what will I tell my kids to do.

Man fck all that sht.

These dumb asses going to have fcked up backs and blind eyes because of those welding jobs. those plumbers and electricians will be fcked up with arthritis too.

As for IT, don't lie to these people that they can get a cert and be employed . Your industry is being gutted by h1bs at the high end and outsourcing on the low end.

 

[bnew]

probably for hands on experience but higher education has to get cheaper.

 

[africngiant]

Firstly I’m very biased
I would call myself successful in my IT career and even changed career paths 4 times in my life.
And the most I have is a high school degree, that’s it.

I never really believed in College or Uni.

Now I have to decide what will I tell my kids to do.

kinda not related but how do you recommend not getting pigeonholed?

 

[3rdWorld]

Chinese kids from age 6 will be taught AI..

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

kinda not related but how do you recommend not getting pigeonholed?

You just gotta get the interview
Once you get the interview you just got to know your material really well.
I’ve been one in hundreds of candidates, some with BAs and some with masters.

That degree doesn’t scream like it used to

 

[IIVI]

Worth it more than ever.

When jobs get tight it’s the people with more education with technical degrees who are favored and get paid more than everyone else.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Worth it more than ever.

Worth it less than ever

 

[IIVI]

Worth it less than ever

I can tell a company my background in Math and can program A.I’s on a level people who don’t know Math as well. I can get closer to the details and “closer to the metal” than those without a technical degree, period.

I can verify the output by A.I and make sure it’s right then spin up 10+ A.I agents on a specific task I know is the right direction to go while someone else has no idea what the Math the original response was about. They’re only falling more behind exponentially as my 10+ A.I agents are going to work on a specific task.

I’m done with my tasks for the day while someone else is still stuck on trying to understand what the first Matrix transformation is trying to do much less the output from the 10+ agents.

 

[Windows 91]

Certain professions require a specific degree. Like if you want to work as a civil engineer with a Professional Engineer license, you need a civil engineering degree from an accredited university. So it will always be worth it for people that want a specific profession.

 

[IIVI]

Certain professions require a specific degree. Like if you want to work as a civil engineer with a Professional Engineer license, you need a civil engineering degree from an accredited university. So it will always be worth it for people that want a specific profession.

Yup. Especially for traditional engineering.

If you’re a company who makes something that breaks and people die, when they find out those engineers do not have degrees from an ABET-accredited school that isn’t an Caltech, M.I.T or Stanford you’re going to get sued into oblivion or sent to prison. CEO’s don’t want to risk that, they’ll hire the people with the degrees.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

I can tell a company my background in Math and can program A.I’s on a level people who don’t know Math as well. I can get closer to the details and “closer to the metal” than those without a technical degree, period.

I can verify the output by A.I and make sure it’s right then spin up 10+ A.I agents on a specific task I know is the right direction to go while someone else has no idea what the Math the original response was about. They’re only falling more behind exponentially as my 10+ A.I agents are going to work on a specific task.

I’m done with my tasks for the day while someone else is still stuck on trying to understand what the first Matrix transformation is trying to do much less the output from the 10+ agents.

I get it
But does it matter?
AI may not replace all jobs but it will absolutely downsize teams.

So there will not be enough demand for degrees soon.