uh no

there are obvious math and programming first/second year courses for comp sci that OP didnt take, it would still take 4 years

here is a broad overview of what constitutes a liberal arts degree. you think people with these don't get respectable jobs? liberal arts isn't limited to gender studies.

Humanities – includes art, literature, linguistics, philosophy, religion, ethics, modern foreign languages, music, theater, speech, classical languages (Latin/Greek) etc.
Social sciences – includes history, psychology, law, sociology, politics, gender studies, anthropology, economics, geography, business informatics, etc.
Natural sciences – includes astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, botany, archaeology, zoology, geology, Earth sciences, etc.
Formal sciences – includes mathematics, logic, statistics, etc.

Most realistic answer itt.

I don't get why anyone would go into debt in order to go to school. It doesn't make any sense. Why don't you get a job that pays for your school like the military? There's even some companies like Starbucks and Fedex that pay for their employees to go to school. And with all the financial aid available, there's really no need to go into debt for school.

Lots of places don't give a phuck what you majored in as long you graduated college. Ik plenty of people doing just fine as music, theatre, art, etc majors. Opie sucks at communicating so he pretty much needs more schooling

Yeah pretty much fcked.

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I'm honestly surprised why no one has mentioned the military. With a degree you could absolutely apply to become an officer in whichever branch you desire (cough marine corps cough). I have a great bachelors degree from a D1 university and even considered that route. It's a good route and they are always looking to recruit. But you have to be reasonably in shape because you still need to pass basic training I believe. Look into it, you will learn useful skills, discipline, and be in reasonable shape. They offer tuition benefits and you don't even need to step on a battlefield/warzone. You're no infantry.

USA Jobs.

Talk to all family members and ask for ANY referral into their company/workplace. Look at the jobs and have them bring it to upper level management. My aunt got me interviews in an insurance company for a position that is irrelevant to what I studied.

Look into retail manager in training programs. If you are interested in clothing this could work for you. And if you aren't there are plenty of other retail stores that you don't need clothing knowledge (walmart, Target, etc). They look for people with degrees not anything specific per say. I was recruited for Abercrombie and Fitch MIT program which is their manager in training program. It is 10 weeks long and you get promoted to assistant manager, then store manager, and if you make the connections and do a great job, you could move up to their corporate office very quickly. That was the only reason that slightly interested me and I interviewed for. They gave me the offer but I wanted to pursue a more lucrative path since I studied healthcare.

Check out LinkedIn. I got two great jobs through LinkedIn. There are a lot of jobs on there for start up companies that aren't on big job search engines like monster and Indeed. Startups are always looking for new talent that they could take advantage of fresh out of school because they see the growth and potential depending on what you could offer them. Make your account great, list out your experience concisely, and then get to work. Put in the time and effort for your linked in and resume and you may score a great job.

Good Luck OP. Finding work is a pain but eventually things will fall into place. Don't stay complacent and just get through the work day everyday at this job. Keep looking to improve and never be at a standstill.

Since you brought up coding, the easier route would be front end development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). If you worked at it a while and did some online code schools, you could start applying to entry level jobs. Maybe 6 months if you catch on quick. Starting pay should be more than you make now. Senior FE devs make 60K and up. If you can hack it in back end dev and make that transition, that will net you six figures at the senior level.

Lmfao @ how easy some people think it is to commission in the military. There is almost a 0% chance of op getting into ocs with a liberal arts degree. Enlisting with a loan repayment plan is his best option.

Apply for foreign service under the State Department. Half the ******* I worked with at the embassies have useless LA degrees like yours. Pay is good and the travel opportunities are endless.

Damn brah what happened?

Graduated with an engineering degree and 30ish thousand in loans. Throwing 1k each month at it does nothing. So many hidden cost and hidden interest rates I never knew about. Consolidated my student loans and threw more money at it, 1k and only 150 went to the principle. Called and asked why "blah blah...when you consolidate..."

My answer, go back to nursing school. Rack up 100k + in debt. Apply for Obama driven payment plan =50$ per month. Do that for 10 years and apply for loan forgiveness.
brb pay 6k in 10 years and the rest of your loan will be forgiven.


I'm screwed because I make much more then I owe so 300$ is my minimum payment even though i've been paying 1k/month. The loan issuing company has found every way to keep most of my payment as interest.

beautiful, pay 50$ per month since you owe more then you make. Even if you make 80k annually you can pay 50$ per month. Your loan will continue to rise due to interest and a 50$ payment and you will never owe less then you make. 10 years later and 6k in payments and you're free.

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get a new identity, enter country illegally, move to sanctuary city boom free rent/ food/ phone etc

31 isnt too late for g4p. you still have your anal virginity i assume? you may be able to pawn your anus off for a decent bit.

cringing at the choice to go 90K in debt for that degree.

I would say work the DMV angle, since you know all the DMV stuff you could be like a freelance registration/renewal guy, a lot of people will pay for not having to deal with DMV.

But 90k, man that's a big freaking hole.

Did you see my post 5 posts above yours that mentioned the military?

Man that blows. I only graduated with around 7k in debt (didnt stay on campus, uni was public/small, and only took out as much loans as i absolutely needed). Somehow, since 2008, ive been able to get it down to around 4k. I was amazed when i looked at it a year ago or so. i just assumed it would be like a credit card. Make the min payments and you'll never pay it off. But man....your situation is worse. but as long as you dont care too much about a low mortgage rate, it shouldnt be such a huge deal

Simply taking a CS degree won't help at all srs

Lots of people in the first year changed to other courses when they figured out programming was difficult, or the algorithm classes were difficult. And just getting a degree won't help; the industry keeps changing, lots of new languages and APIs come and go, so not only will you have to learn the foundations, you'll have to keep up with whats used in the industry in order to even seem worth hiring.

I don't think you'll like having to learn outside of the CS degree

Accelerated nursing programs don't take 4 years. It'll be like 1-2 years.

The community college ones near me have admissions policies which require pre-reqs (1-2 yrs).

The accelerated ones are extremely expensive.

get a programming certificate online brah

Go be a cop and work all the OT you can.

You owe 90k over a fuking liberal arts degree?

I would go with the Nursing option.

I'd talk to a college near you and see what useful degree you can get that will transfer most of your credits over. You should have most of the gen ed requirements met for a lot of degrees. You can catch up on math using khan academy, just have to put in the time.

False. All Engineering Major only require 5 courses for General Education. 113 credit hours are mandatory physics, math, and engineering courses

(Source: graduated with an engineering degree feels good mane)

OP.

Don't go back to school for CS. fukking lol.

Self-teach yourself how to code if you really want to go that route. Pay for a coding bootcamp as well once you have some experience (it's like $12k for 10 weeks or some chit).

A lot of people go into it and come out with jobs that start at $60k/yr. That's low for a developer (like jr. dev level) but you can easily move up into $120k for coding.

I recommend starting on freecodecamp.com. A LOT of people who complete the path usually have gotten themselves jobs before they even finish.



If you can't find another way out, it's imo more efficient both time and money wise and cheaper to just off yourself like you stated.

Join the military for three years, get out and be a fry cook for Burger King and use your G.I Bill to go back to school.

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