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u/FRedington · 2 pointsr/asktrp

> ... Cyber Security at the local community college.

You are starting at the wrong place in the curriculum. You should start at the beginning or you will be hopelessly lost when they start talking about a SYN attack. You will have zero clue what they are talking about.

About that BA in Political Science and a BA in Economics. Worthless.
see: Clarey, "Worthless"
http://www.amazon.com/Worthless-Young-Persons-Indispensable-Choosing/dp/B00DJAP32S

What's done is done. Let it go.
What to do now?
Back to school, CC is fine. But get some career counseling now that is actually worth something. With the BA degrees, you probably have all the credits you need for a STEM field degree. At CC take the maths and a track through an IT specific something that actually pays well with just a BS.

  • Programming, software engineering
  • Database management
  • Systems Administration
  • IT Facilities Management
  • Date Enginnering
  • Data Security, intrusion detection and prevention, ...

    Good luck.
u/cdrootrmdashrfstar · 1 pointr/learnprogramming

This may not be for you since you're too far gone, but you should give this to your kids. Actually, any "kid" (college-aged person) reading this should buy this.

SUMMARY: DON'T MAJOR IN THE LIBERAL ARTS.

Dear Stupid Students, America Can't Afford Your Stupidity

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>1) Teaching

It's doubtful that you truly need a degree in English to teach basic and useable English to people in foreign countries. There's a great number of people who teach English without English degrees (again, still a total under-utilization of your abilities (assuming you're above ~100 IQ).

>2) Happiness is of value to me

You're able to achieve happiness in ways that

  1. don't involve wasting four years of your life (and TENS OF THOUSANDS of yours or someone else's money) receiving a useless piece of paper saying you studied your native, first language,

  2. doesn't require wasting taxpayer money for four years (similar but different to #1),

  3. can actually contribute to society/help people in other countries,

  4. isn't contributing into the scam of modern education

    >It's taken me around the world (literally)

    Wow, that's surely unique from all the other real degrees that certainly don't offer opportunities to move around the world for work.

    >I make about 3K a month writing and self-publishing on Amazon

    Here's one list of extremely famous writers who didn't go get a degree in English.

    Here's some more.

    If you have the passion for writing, go write. DO NOT get a worthless degree in English.

    >That might not be brogrammer money, but it's a life that's been a lot more interesting and rewarding than just staring into a monitor 60 hours a week.

    This seems bitter? Are you suggesting that I'm a "brogrammer?" What, because I espouse for people to avoid useless degrees who don't actually produce or contribute anything of actual value to society?

    >The only way you could possibly think that anything other than STEM = parasite is if you had about zero actual life experience. I'm guessing you went from your parents basement to college to some tech job and don't know jack about what else happens in the world.

    Even more bitter? Apparently. I feel like it is a lack of understanding of the world to get that worthless, piece-of-shit degree rather than a STEM degree. Why not do something that people actually care about and that *actually contributes to the society that safely coddled you while you wasted your potential getting a useless degree.

    "I just wanna be happy, maaaaaaan."

    Here's a list of majors you should go back and get: