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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Sep \ on: Is college (university) still worth it in the era of AI? AskSN
Let alone AI, College hasn't been worth it ever since youtube.
Disagree. I can tell the difference between coworkers who went to college and those who didn't (and good universities vs mediocre colleges too). In the way how structured their work is, how structured they write. It just isn't the same - no matter how much the blue collars cope and seethe.
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A question you should ask is how much of that is just due to their own intellectual ability versus the doing of the colleges.
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Doesn't matter. I don't have the time for vetting people, I need good rules of thumbs for which candidates deserve a closer look. Being classist about socioeconomic background would be a useful rule of thumb. Credentialism is a better rule of thumb. We still make exceptions ofc.
And that isn't just me. The entire white collar world works like that.
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It matters because it means that going to college while having low intellectual ability may not be a good idea.
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I can't argue against your local statistics if they work locally for you. But you must understand that that's your local sample. In my experience it doesn't matter at all, and the fact I know it's perfectly possible to prescind from a college degree entirely to be perfectly knowledgeable, competent and productive on a certain field (engineering at least, as per my sample), is enough of a proof (at least for that field), as this is provable by counter-example. I have college education, so I know from first hand experience that the quality of the material available on the internet is vastly superior to anything college can ever give you. In fact I realized after the fact that I wasted my time, I shouldn't have pursued a college degree on engineering, I should have learned from the internet directly.
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I can't argue against your local statistics if they work locally for you. But you must understand that that's your local sample.
But it isn't. It's not an anecdote. The whole white collar world runs on credentialism because it just really is the best rule of thumb there is. Nobody has time to sift through a thousand applicants to find the few good self-taught people.
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Last time I checked to get a job you would be asked for your work experience so... yea...
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