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** ** Employer: "I don't see any field experience on your résumé." Applicant: "No sir thats because I dont have any direct experience in the field." Employer: "Im sorry but you will need at least 3-5 years experience in the industry." Applicant: "Oh.... it says entry level... is...is that in error?" E: "No this is our entry level position." A: "An entry level with 3-5 years experience in the field?" E: "Yep." A: "And how am i supposed to go about getting that experience for an entry level position when all other 'entry' level positions also require 3 years minimum. Seeing as i was gettin that degree you have listed as a requirement for the last 4 years?" E: "Sorry don't know what to tell you. Should've been working while going to school." A: "I did work, I was full time student and almost a full time worker. My work experience wasn't in this field because no one would hire me without first getting the degree." E: "Welp idk what to tell. It's been good talking with you, be sure you keep your eye on our job board and apply if you see anything that you feel you'd be a good fit for."
"Hey man can I get hired here? I've been working this exact job for 4 years and and I know basically everything about it." "Sorry, but you need to have at least a Bachelor's degree before you can qualify for this position." "Hey, I've got a bachelor's degree in this field. Interested in hiring me?" "Sorry, but you need at least 4 years of experience." "Damn why are we bleeding employees? People just don't want to work anymore..."
Tell me about it. I have two pieces of paper that are hanging around somewhere in my house. Didn’t really learn anything experience didn’t already teach me the decade I spent working before going back to school. Too many classes only teach theory and not real life or how to apply what is taught. Felt sorry for the kids who actually thought what they read in the books would help them in the real world. Truth is that nothing beats experience.
There are different levels of degrees. If you feel like you are wasting your time, then you probably are. Degrees are for learning and proof of accomplishment. If you have accomplished so.ething that you don't value, how will you make others see value in that to attain better employment?
I agree that my degree has done very little for me except give me a level of personal accomplishment and meet a few hot college girls. I did have to proof read and spell correctly when i went to college to get a degree...
I worked for my best friend for a few years, I gave him a months notice that I was moving back to my home state and agreed to help him finish one last job. He sent me two guys in their mid twenties who were finishing up college. Neither one could read a tape measure, one said he could operate a skid steer but wound up running over a big ass orange toolbox and a bright yellow painted generator. We tried to teach them how to read a tape and do some simple calculations that are kinda necessary for construction ( like making steps)but neither could learn.... one of them was getting some kind of construction degree 🤦 Turns out they had been smoking pot almost since they were old enough for solid food and since we were in N Dakota they could not get any ( at the time at least) and just couldn't deal with life without it, one tried to smoke incense or something and went to jail over it😅 They probably went back to college and got those degrees, now they are all ready to show us how its done.
I've known workers with two associates, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees that can't gain employment and work for retail. Degree's don't mean jack except for the person who values them.
A college degree ain't an automatic pass into success and neither is simply being experienced. Application of ones own gifts is what helps make one successful. Be positive, be on time, and be willing to learn and y'all be fine.
This is unbelievably true. I experienced this personally. Had 30 years experience, hired a guy that had 0, because he had a 2 year business degree. I could've saved them 10 times what they would've paid me in stopping fraud alone.
Why would this guy apply for any position at all? He owns all the equipment, has all the contacts to include government contacts, has all the knowledge, skills, and experience... Dude just start your own company.
My wife and I both have degrees- her in healthcare management (bachelor) and myself in automotive technologies (Associate’s)- she now works in supply chain logistics at a job she didn’t need a degree to get, and I’m apprenticing as a commercial electrician- (working towards a journeyman license), we are both making far more money than we did working in the fields that our degrees applied to. The irony is that we both could have got our current jobs without any schooling 🙄
Why would you ever leave being a mechanic. This field is amazing. I’m a diesel mechanic making over $30 an hour and can go anywhere on this planet and find work or start my own business which is the plan. If you didn’t like gas engines you could’ve went to diesel. You can get paid to fix hospital generators which all run on diesel, work for railroads fixing trains, water plants, electric plants, construction equipment, farm equipment, etc… We have to fix the electric buses that come in and they charge off diesel generators. Diesel is going nowhere ever. However, if you want to be an electrician that’s cool to. I’m just just curious why didn’t want to be a mechanic
@@StrongerThanBigfoot The reason I quit an an auto tech was 100% the compensation structure of working flat rate at a dealership- fighting for every .1 hr with warranty times and not getting paid for the legit work I was doing. Warranty time to replace piston rings on a 2012 V6 Pilot was 8.5 hours at my flag rate of $26/hour. Now I work 6 days/60 hours per week with paid overtime and per diem, plus a company vehicle/gas card, and health insurance free for my entire family. Even taking a several dollar an hour pay cut to start out as an apprentice in this trade I am still taking home more than double what I was as an ASE master tech. Furthermore I can easily make $30-$35 within 4 years once I have a journeyman license. So to recap I’m making double the money in my first year an an electrician than I would have in my 13th year as an auto tech- how could I say no?
@HunglikeBigfoot8x6 My buddy was an auto tech. He was really fast and really knows his stuff, but not being *quite* fast enough to make good money doing dealership work meant that he worked local shops and safetied used cars at dealerships. He was making $16 an hour by the time he quit, totally burnt out. I make 50% more than that as a welder working half as hard with no degree or college education. He got into HVAC with the promise of being paid over $100k a year after training.
That was me 25 yrs ago in the IT world. No degree but i had experience and certificates. Eventually I said to one manager. How about you hire me and I’ll work for free. He called a week later with I’ll hire you but I have to pay you… so I took it. It was half the pay they advertised but 6 months later he bumped my pay to what it was advertised and 6 months after that I left. Ever since then nobody has asked me for a degree. My plan was to leave after some experience but I wasn’t expecting to get paid. Take a chance on me you got nothing to lose. 25 yrs later I make 20x what I was making and I still talk to that manager on occasion. When I took that job I killed everyone with kindness. Managers would request me to complete certain jobs in the company. I refuse to see closed doors.
yeh I was over qualified in the IT field that I was interested in got all the certs then could not find work because everyone wanted trainee-ships ... , so had to be a Laborer
@@Polygonlin .... they are mainly there to tell you to tie-off to imaginary sky hooks and hold multi hour safety meetings that make you want to break shiet.
I mean the first 2 years is bs but depending on the degree when people get general classes done they then move to actual education. Also, the degree is good so when you have it you can get started going up ladder to get to higher paying jobs
@@tom_upnow The trouble is that every field is competitive. A lot of people forget that having a degree doesn't mean you'll get a job. You have to get hired before you move up, and there are plenty of people who are now tens of thousands of dollars in debt for their dream profession who can't get a job in the field they busted their asses to be in.
Outside of management or supervisory positions, there should be a greater emphasis on candidates who are willing to learn and be trained. Nearly all employers want someone with experience because more often than not they're too lazy to train people.
It's not just that. Training people on your own dime is losing money. Then when done training those employees can leave for a better paying job. So a lot of times it's a risk for employers to train new hires. But, somebody needs to do it. Otherwise they can't complain there's nobody qualified in the workforce. As long as they're willing to pay people what they're worth, they'll stick around after training.
this right here was me a few years ago when i was applying for IT jobs. I had lots of experience but every place i applied to for entry level jobs wanted 4-year degrees, while i had a 2-year in accounting. Ended up getting my first IT job at a helpdesk at the hospital i was working at as a PCT. Got the job cause the manager had heard from others working in IT that i had been fixing all the computer issues that would arise in my unit at the time without having to call them. So she hired me and did that job without complaint for 3 years before quiting due to the hospital being bought out by a corporate company. Ended up getting an IT job at a university that bypassed the requirement for a degree and they liked how much knowledge and experience i had. Have received mutliple pay increased and making good money with many beneficial perks that work around my family like as a single dad. Have always said a degree is only good with really specialized areas, other wise it means nothing as i would rather have someone with hands on experience over someone who just memorized a bunch of words in a book and takes test well. That person with real world knowledge will run circles around the college kid every time.
That’s exactly why I got out of IT. I had a 2 year degree with 5 years experience and it didn’t get me anywhere. I decided to become a mechanic working on more specialized vehicles. Life is much simpler while getting paid way more. Nobody asks a mechanic if he’s got a degree before he fixes something worth millions of dollars.
Getting educated was fun, meeting and networking with people who saw the world differently from you was fun. Making connections and feeling like you are gonna contribute to society is fun. What’s not fun is applying to jobs and working a job that’s not in your degree field because you can’t find work for your degree. Still was fun.
I work in a chemical plant, I was a former hazmat specialist for the company. I'd do the boots on the ground work with some of the most dangerous stuff available in the plant. I'm talking about the kinda stuff where one breath of it will begin to dissolve your lungs, and you die in agony on the floor choking on your own liquefied lung tissue. I'd also manage the process responsible for said chemical. When we'd have a process upset or some other emergency all the salary people with college degrees would run to the control room to plan things out and talk and talk and talk and mostly, to hide. Regardless of the fact that a worst case scenario just at our building would make the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal seem like a stiff fart in comparison and that they were by no means safe in that control room. Willing to wait it out till a potential emergency became a full-blown emergency (this is why we have advanced alarm systems in place) So who would actually stop the potential emergency? Us hazmat folk. My team and I. We'd suit up and go into harms way to get hands on with the process and stop whatever the hell went wrong. You know what talking gets you in an emergency? a disaster. None on my team had a relevant degree, most of us myself included had never set foot in college. But we had on the job training, our own experience as well as all the experience of everyone that came before us in the plant. Sometimes, a lot of the time, you need to both think and act at the same time. Hell one of the times we went back in the control room after repairing a very critical pump and found the salary folk trying to put together a powerpoint presentation to explain to themselves how to fix the problem. They're not all bad though. Never underestimate someone with a degree who genuinely knows what they're doing and how to do it. I've seen them suss out a problem and provide a solution before we even got our SCBA's on.
The most accurate and fair take I've ever read on social media. Degree'd people are easy to make fun of, but many of us would be without a job without them. That powerpoint story is totally something I could see happening 🤣
Also because the company can pay you less and you’re competent compared to the collegiate employee with no experience they have to pay more for them just to get experience lol
I have a Master of Science in Engineering and have changed careers and want to get licensed in Wetland delineation. The licencing requirements dictate an Earth Sciences degree or somesuch when whats trulry required is field experience and knowlehge of soils and plant ID. Kinda sucks because I'm too old to get yet another degree that bears no direct relevance to this line of work. The bar was set high so only a few could get in. Now that they are retiring the herd is thinning and there are few replacements for a variety of reasons.
I went to college to get a a nursing degree and now I’m working as a Diesel mechanic making tons of money and can work anywhere on the planet. Degrees are overrated unless you want to specialize in a certain field that requires specialized learning that can’t learn in the job like a nurse or doctor. I think more women should become mechanics as well. It’s a great field and great money.
I too went to nursing school and the most important thing I learned as a nurse is that being a nurse fucking sucks and to go do literally any other fucking job.
@@samuelw4492 no nurse makes 100K without being a traveler and they get the absolute worst of the worst of these jobs and none of them work 3 days a week.
You can scoot by life without a degree just fine, you just gotta be willing to learn "Know what you're doing?" " Not really " "Wanna learn" " Yes sir " "Aight be back here 6am tomorrow"
This is true everywhere but it also sucks when people lie about experience and destroy the job site. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ Give them 30min to handle a job and if it doesn't look professional tell them bye.
The best hire is one who was experienced first, and then went and got a degree to go along with that experience. That's a person who not only knows what they're doing, but getting the degree shows they actually want to keep doing it.
You have to attach yourself to the government school system and pay for everything yourself, unless you weren't born here. You can work for fifty years and know everything there is to know and it doesn't matter. The guy with the degree is usually not as smart as someone who worked hands on. It's a game you have to play. You'll never be allowed to make millions and retire on a beach somewhere. They take the money out of your check every week but when it comes time to retire you'll never see that money. Best thing you can do is work off grid and bank your money. Don't get hooked into the government money scheme you'll be much happier and have more money to enjoy life
I mean you are 100% and I agree completely. But the government makes the money. They print it at a federal reserve and electronically fund saving and loans and funding huts throughout the nation. They set the rates and they run the economic ebb and flow. It isn't taking advantage of programs that hurts as those funds have already been squandered and calculated into multiple long term plans and runways and not taking advantage of tax breaks or incentives will ultimately not change a thing and at worse leave you further behind than someone that will.
Better, 10 years of work. Without playing the trap of a game. Move away from the usa, renounce citizenship to cut ties with this overrated shithole of a country. Then enjoy life. Millions renouncing citizenship to get away from here. Millions more in queue.
My bachelors is in Healthcare Management and even though I worked in the field for years prior to obtaining a degree, I got bored. Luckily, I was able to switch careers & get into construction but I had to use the angle of “healthcare construction.” I don’t think you necessarily need a degree in engineering or construction management, you’ll company will teach you everything on the job. A degree really isn’t necessary in construction however, I do think a degree does give you that leg up
EDIT: Forgot the part where this guy has worked for the city... WTF Hire this man! LOL... "Roofin, drywall, electrical... Everything!". Notice how he didn't say plumbing. See you know he's done plumbing, and he knows how to do plumbing. He just aint gonna mention that, cuz nobody wants to fuckin do plumbing. Even plumbers, and that's not bullshit I know several, they hate it, they just get paid "just good enough" to make it worth it. They ought to get paid more, like seasoned garbage collectors. Of course garbage has less material cost to collect than plumbing has to install so we can only dream... Respect, plumbers. Love you guys for doing that god awful fuckin job, you make the world go round.
Got a Bachelors degree in construction, its nothing more than a very expensive wall hanger. It opened very few doors and the only doors open pay less than 40k with no benefits. I now work in a warehouse making base pay of 65k with benefits, and get more vacation time.
Best bet to me is to work a trade for a full time job and go to and work college classes around it. Means busting a$$ for a few years, but the end result is solid experience of a trade and the knowledge from school.
My former supervisor was someone who was hired from the shop floor. He was a welder like everyone he supervised, heck, my coworker has his old locker. As supervisor, if there was a problem, he was the one who could fix it cause he knew the lifts we make inside and out. He made everything at one point or another. Well, he was promoted to plant manager, and they hired someone salaried from sales/purchasing to take over for supervisor. The guy has no idea what welding is. Dont get me wrong, he's a great guy, but the issues really started to show this week when he realized he scheduled a ship date weeks too soon cause he didnt understand how big the job we were working on really was. Every other job after that is affected and we have to work twice as hard to even get a chance to ship those out on time.
This is the best love letter to all the hard workers and true professionals in the world, rejected by stupid rules that either don't make sense or just aren't helpful and hold people back.
I share every one of your videos with my hole FB and insta and send it to my contacts to you are so.funny and my construction buddys wil love these vidios
Omg, this is so true. I worked for a company for 17 yrs for the last two yrs was promised a management position and then someone with a degree got hired and I put in my two weeks. Funny thing is that person they hired didn't last 9 months.
This the TRUTH!!! ALOT of jobs hire new supervisors, and managers with a degree, but no floor experience. They have absolutely no idea what it takes to do the job... It's like having a black belt, but never been in a fight. It sounds good in theory, and on paper, but that's it.
School and experience are two different things. Learning the hard way with working for diesel mechanics. I know bits and pieces but still trying to figure out the stupid basic lower tier stuff that school never touched on and I feel super dumb about. Getting second thoughts about college right now
64 years experience in concrete, gardening, framing, electrical, roofing, own your equipment, cranes, excavator, trucks, strong work ethics, always on time and never missed a day of work, ready to work for free and even pay to do the work !!! Man just start your own company !! You are ready !!
The company i work for only hires full time builders who completed an intermship with them. To get an internship you need to show you have a degree or working towards it.
😂😂...that "It's a klassik!" He said with authority and Aunt Wanda aounds like a hoot. 😂 How in the hell did this comment get in this video. I was watching Travis. 😂😂
I wouldn't hire someone with a degree. It proves to me they can be scammed and trapped in debt. Two weeks on a site is worth more than 5 years in school.
After working construction for 20 years, being a superintendent for 10 of those I went back to college and before I finish my college degree I landed a sweet job as a construction manager for an architectural firm, which I would have zero chance of landing without a degree
Did you get a construction management degree or something else? This has been my plan to go get a cm degree but have had a couple people tell me to go with business administration instead because I already have construction experience.
@@edg3818 I am taking business admin now and what I have learned has helped me run my business far better than before I had the degree. The knowledge you learn in school is great, just try to find an inexpensive place to learn it
I know a whole lot of people with 4 and 8 year degrees that are working minimum wage jobs. I also know a whole lot of people that have jobs making good money and have nothing more than a high school diploma or a trade school diploma.
I used to work in a warehouse, state job, driving around with a rider pallet jack building orders, counting orders, and loading, and then building computers and working with customers when we started doing surplus sales. Got stuck as a temp due to position freeze for entire dept, and then laid off later. 15 years later when a job opening for that place shows up on the state site now? Yep, bachelor's in business required.
There is a lot of truth to this. A lot of employers have filters for people without degrees. Doesn't matter if you have decades of experience, you can't get past the job application systems. They won't even see your application because the filters auto reject you.
My God this literally happened to me twice. Goodwill of all places. Over a decade and a half of store management experience with references. I already knew the business in and out. They then proceeded to hire somebody with an engineering degree and told me it was because all they cared about was a college degree. They didn't even care if it had nothing to do with business it just showed initiative for going to college. Whereas working the actual business for a decade and a half wasn't enough. They got rid of three other managers just to hire people with degrees. All of them were fired or had to quit within one to two years because the business went to crap. Exact same thing happened at Lincare. They burned through managers but unless you had a degree they wouldn't look at you. Worked that place and knew it in and out. I could go on and on for people I know same boat. Well liked well knowledgeable but didn't have a degree. And not even in the business they needed it in to boot
I experienced the opposite. I got a degree in Accounting in 2015 and I have not been able to get a job because I don't have any experience. I have been a teacher since 2016, and almost every year I have tried to get a job in accounting with no luck. I did have one job offer to make $40K a year with a 2 hour daily commute. I can make $20K more as a teacher so that wouldn't make sense.
Times like this make me glad some employers will look the other way if you got experience over a piece of paper that says you're really good at keeping your head down and reading. Too bad that's all they promote to manager positions these days.
I see comments about 2 years of job experience being better than 4 years of college. In my experience that is WAY off. I have 3 years college experience and over a decade of job experience. Generally speaking I have learned WAY more in college than while doing jobs. For one thing, you can learn most entry level positions in under 6 months and after that you are mostly just repeating the same things over and over. I will grant there are some critical things you only learn by doing jobs. For example, I learned a lot about life and practical heuristics such as "slow is smooth, smooth is fast." That aside, most jobs only teach you the bare minimum and restrict your learning opportunities to only the specific requirements for each particular job. If you switch to a different job you usually have to start back at the beginning because very few of the things you learn in one job actually apply in other jobs. Even so, I have learned far more things in college than in all the jobs I've done combined. In my experience college is a much more intense, rapid, and extensive way to learn than jobs.
Yessir! That is how it goes. I work in IT, but it’s basically the same story there as well - really every field. However, you can get into IT without a degree. But you do tend to need it to advance into the higher roles, unfortunately. The really rough part is that what I learn in my degree I’ll mostly use. Many degree requirements just ask for an MBA or something, and you’ll effectively waste four years just for that piece of paper. In Computer Science, my first attempted degree, and Computer Information Technology, you tend to use a lot of what you learn aside from the calculus.
Reminds me when my work hired a supervisor who never worked the job and knew nothing of it, over workers who knew it all, because he had a degree. In Musical Theory. The job was not music related. 😜
So in my experience degrees are good for a few fields where you need to know regulations and give you knowlege on certain aspects you may not get with just experience. However i think experience is the better teacher overall. Its comparing reading a maitnence manual vs just doing the maintenance yourself.
I've been a Scaffolder for 13 years now, journeyman for 8 years. In my first year I out earned my mom who has been in IT for 13 years at that point with a 4 year degree.
While generally worthless, I do believe a degree is highly beneficial or should be required certain feilds of work like engineering or anything to do with medical but most degrees are an absolute waste of time! I myself just got a regular old public high school edumacation and got started in the trades while still in school. Im currently 35 years old and for the last 5 years Ive been working as a commercial construction superintendent making just over 6 figures with FULL benifits including 100% company paid health, vision, and dental, 401k with company matched contributions, paid sick leave, paid holidays, paid vacation, company profit sharing and a company truck with gas card. I make more money than nearly all of my friends that went to college and love what I do whilst they all whine and complain how mundane their jobs are and how much debt they are in from school. Cheers from Brandon Mississippi
Companies be like “you need to have a degree and 10 years of experience. We are looking for an experienced individual”. Also, the pay is 30k a year. It’s an entry level position….
I just watched a video about shear walls and racking, sliding, overturning, how there's an entire chart of nail size vs sheathing thickness and how many you must use per panel and precisely where they go; and this was a 14min hip-pocket video. Holy cats. There's no way you learn this stuff on the jobsite. The apprenticeship program for Carpenters must be insane.
This is why going to different companies is so lucrative. If each one pays you $5k-$7K more. A few years of jumping ship and your base salary is up there. Seriously, if you start trades using a diploma/work program, it is way cheaper and you make money sooner. The only guaranteed free money you'll get it compound iterest. When you make a decent buck at 21 and put some away, people that have a degree and are still looking for work at 25-26 and have student debt to pay for the next 20 years (average),stand no chance. You'll retire sooner. You'll have bought your house when it was cheaper. You'll have benefits. If you are in a union position, the bank will loan you the earth with no questions asked. Your aveage income from 21 until you retire will be higher.
Use to work at a Harley Davidson factory for an industrial cleaning company (for the paint lab) and had an incredible boss who was the ideal biker hard ass can be but great and genuine guy but as much as he knew about the job Harley wouldn't hire him to their company cause he didn't have a degree. Piece of paper doesn't mean anything when they tell you to "forget everything you learned in college".
Dude, my wife did me the same way before she'd let me take her to bed. Wanted me to get a PhD. Well i did, and after 12 years of slowly diminishing returns......i wish i had majored in something else by god.
I can safely say my company values experience over degrees “I want this position but it says I need a degree.” “They just put that on here. Apply using this link.”
I've spent 20 years in the trades. In my experience, people with college degrees are more intelligent and work harder. Working straight out of highschool is the easier path and it shows. Easily the laziest, most unmotivated group of people I've ever had to work with. I've worked in a lot of industries and I can't think of a worse group of people to be stuck around every day.
Unless you graduated in thr top 10% of your class and could demonstrate am understanding of the academic criteria, a college degree really doesn't show you can do the job, shadowing at least or some hands on experience of direct work related tasks encountered on the job I feel. Would be more valuable. Unfortunately most employers say they only hire experienced people, but how do you get experience unless you're hired in thr first place? And how do you get hired? Usually by showing you have the sought after degree. Degrees really are jusr liability shields *well he has a degree, he outa known better* Same with certificates, that way, HR can say "he was certified in the safe handling and using of [said tool], because he misused it, however sleight, he will he let go" Its all guarding employers from liability and lawsuits
“We can’t promote you to supervisor because you don’t have a bachelor’s, but we hired outside the company and we’ll need you to train him to be your supervisor, because you have the most experience.”
I think k it would be fair to hire people with both. Like if someone has a bachelor they should have close to 1.5-2 years exp. However no degree they should have close to double the length of the degree so for a person not in college or degree should have 6-8 years
Sadly/Annoyingly/Angrily waaaaaay too much emphasis of the importance of "having a degree" versus experience has been given! Experience can be sooooo much more valuable over the action of "obtaining a degree"! ARG! Hahahahaha! O:-)
A person with a degree made the decision that a degree is necessary for a job they don't know how to do.
Hit the nail on the head, right there.
They gonna get in their feelings reading this lol
a form of GATE-KEEPING
I remember being born knowing how to work on cars..oh wait.
There it goes, talking like a government man.
This man is off the chain.
Everyone in this comment section do this guy a favor an show his page to at least 2 people you kno would get a laugh outta his skits, the least we can do he works hard to bring this original content we all love so much. Let’s all help get him on more people’s recommended. I’m sure it would mean a lot to him
Man, it would mean SO much to me! Thank you for the rally and I appreciate you appreciating the content 🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Sent it to my boss (he sent it to at least 3 other) planting seeds
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Employer: "I don't see any field experience on your résumé."
Applicant: "No sir thats because I dont have any direct experience in the field."
Employer: "Im sorry but you will need at least 3-5 years experience in the industry."
Applicant: "Oh.... it says entry level... is...is that in error?"
E: "No this is our entry level position."
A: "An entry level with 3-5 years experience in the field?"
E: "Yep."
A: "And how am i supposed to go about getting that experience for an entry level position when all other 'entry' level positions also require 3 years minimum. Seeing as i was gettin that degree you have listed as a requirement for the last 4 years?"
E: "Sorry don't know what to tell you. Should've been working while going to school."
A: "I did work, I was full time student and almost a full time worker. My work experience wasn't in this field because no one would hire me without first getting the degree."
E: "Welp idk what to tell. It's been good talking with you, be sure you keep your eye on our job board and apply if you see anything that you feel you'd be a good fit for."
I would dedicate time money and resources to fuck with the guy who would dare give me this bullshit.
Verbatim to what millennials face in the job market
@@PrayingPanda but if we dont demand a degree on every job how can we force all these youngsters to go into debt to get a job.
@@PrayingPandaYup. But that’s when you do this wonderful thing on your resume. LIE!
@@IncognitoSprax they're basically encouraging it
"Hey man can I get hired here? I've been working this exact job for 4 years and and I know basically everything about it."
"Sorry, but you need to have at least a Bachelor's degree before you can qualify for this position."
"Hey, I've got a bachelor's degree in this field. Interested in hiring me?"
"Sorry, but you need at least 4 years of experience."
"Damn why are we bleeding employees? People just don't want to work anymore..."
Getting a degree was the biggest waste of time. Still can’t find a job that pays fairly.
Tell me about it. I have two pieces of paper that are hanging around somewhere in my house. Didn’t really learn anything experience didn’t already teach me the decade I spent working before going back to school. Too many classes only teach theory and not real life or how to apply what is taught. Felt sorry for the kids who actually thought what they read in the books would help them in the real world. Truth is that nothing beats experience.
What field?
There are different levels of degrees. If you feel like you are wasting your time, then you probably are. Degrees are for learning and proof of accomplishment. If you have accomplished so.ething that you don't value, how will you make others see value in that to attain better employment?
I agree that my degree has done very little for me except give me a level of personal accomplishment and meet a few hot college girls. I did have to proof read and spell correctly when i went to college to get a degree...
@@jacobnorth8642 see? What good was it anyway can’t even write a RUclips comment correctly.
I worked for my best friend for a few years, I gave him a months notice that I was moving back to my home state and agreed to help him finish one last job.
He sent me two guys in their mid twenties who were finishing up college.
Neither one could read a tape measure, one said he could operate a skid steer but wound up running over a big ass orange toolbox and a bright yellow painted generator.
We tried to teach them how to read a tape and do some simple calculations that are kinda necessary for construction ( like making steps)but neither could learn.... one of them was getting some kind of construction degree 🤦 Turns out they had been smoking pot almost since they were old enough for solid food and since we were in N Dakota they could not get any ( at the time at least) and just couldn't deal with life without it, one tried to smoke incense or something and went to jail over it😅 They probably went back to college and got those degrees, now they are all ready to show us how its done.
I genuinely fear for the future of the few decent folks left living in this country.
I know a man with a degree that washes dishes. The whole system is a joke.
I've known workers with two associates, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees that can't gain employment and work for retail. Degree's don't mean jack except for the person who values them.
Everything, it's all bullshit.
Lucky they can get work at all, they are extremely overqualified...
My brother is a certified airplane mechanic and he works at a gas station 😂
A college degree ain't an automatic pass into success and neither is simply being experienced. Application of ones own gifts is what helps make one successful. Be positive, be on time, and be willing to learn and y'all be fine.
This is unbelievably true. I experienced this personally. Had 30 years experience, hired a guy that had 0, because he had a 2 year business degree. I could've saved them 10 times what they would've paid me in stopping fraud alone.
Why would this guy apply for any position at all? He owns all the equipment, has all the contacts to include government contacts, has all the knowledge, skills, and experience... Dude just start your own company.
The corporate dude took all the bid guys from every other corporate run sub to the strip club , dude can’t land a contract. Simple as that
@@markc3197 Sounds like he needs to start lining pockets on his own too!
@@peterstuber7456 boss of mine used this tactic with success
Well you see he has one little problem there too… he don’t have a degree.
@@danielallen2379 Don't need one to start a business.
Experience over a degree any day of the week . Been battling that for years ,
Back in the day we did do everything! From foundation to trim to cabinets!!!
My wife and I both have degrees- her in healthcare management (bachelor) and myself in automotive technologies (Associate’s)- she now works in supply chain logistics at a job she didn’t need a degree to get, and I’m apprenticing as a commercial electrician- (working towards a journeyman license), we are both making far more money than we did working in the fields that our degrees applied to. The irony is that we both could have got our current jobs without any schooling 🙄
Why would you ever leave being a mechanic. This field is amazing. I’m a diesel mechanic making over $30 an hour and can go anywhere on this planet and find work or start my own business which is the plan.
If you didn’t like gas engines you could’ve went to diesel. You can get paid to fix hospital generators which all run on diesel, work for railroads fixing trains, water plants, electric plants, construction equipment, farm equipment, etc…
We have to fix the electric buses that come in and they charge off diesel generators. Diesel is going nowhere ever.
However, if you want to be an electrician that’s cool to. I’m just just curious why didn’t want to be a mechanic
@@StrongerThanBigfoot The reason I quit an an auto tech was 100% the compensation structure of working flat rate at a dealership- fighting for every .1 hr with warranty times and not getting paid for the legit work I was doing. Warranty time to replace piston rings on a 2012 V6 Pilot was 8.5 hours at my flag rate of $26/hour. Now I work 6 days/60 hours per week with paid overtime and per diem, plus a company vehicle/gas card, and health insurance free for my entire family. Even taking a several dollar an hour pay cut to start out as an apprentice in this trade I am still taking home more than double what I was as an ASE master tech. Furthermore I can easily make $30-$35 within 4 years once I have a journeyman license. So to recap I’m making double the money in my first year an an electrician than I would have in my 13th year as an auto tech- how could I say no?
@@Penguin545 Thanks for the clarification and good for you man. You have to do whats best for you.
@HunglikeBigfoot8x6 My buddy was an auto tech. He was really fast and really knows his stuff, but not being *quite* fast enough to make good money doing dealership work meant that he worked local shops and safetied used cars at dealerships.
He was making $16 an hour by the time he quit, totally burnt out. I make 50% more than that as a welder working half as hard with no degree or college education.
He got into HVAC with the promise of being paid over $100k a year after training.
@@christianpetterson1784 The scenario you described sounds about typical the automotive industry for sure
That was me 25 yrs ago in the IT world. No degree but i had experience and certificates. Eventually I said to one manager. How about you hire me and I’ll work for free. He called a week later with I’ll hire you but I have to pay you… so I took it. It was half the pay they advertised but 6 months later he bumped my pay to what it was advertised and 6 months after that I left. Ever since then nobody has asked me for a degree. My plan was to leave after some experience but I wasn’t expecting to get paid. Take a chance on me you got nothing to lose. 25 yrs later I make 20x what I was making and I still talk to that manager on occasion. When I took that job I killed everyone with kindness. Managers would request me to complete certain jobs in the company. I refuse to see closed doors.
yeh I was over qualified in the IT field that I was interested in got all the certs then could not find work because everyone wanted trainee-ships ... , so had to be a Laborer
IT job ads right now are crazy. You need to have Sec+, PMP, CISM/CISSP, and 10 years experience for tier 2 support.
@@joshuahill1246that is correct. Best to do a different trade. It sucks to work on this field
More OSHA inspectors need to be fed into the mixer. Throw the degree in as substrate
Most relatable blue collar comment ever
I Thought OSHA was there to PROTECT People from Scummy Bosses?
@@Polygonlin .... they are mainly there to tell you to tie-off to imaginary sky hooks
and hold multi hour safety meetings that make you want to break shiet.
@@zarthemad8386anything over 4 feet apparently requires a harness now? Fuck reality!!!
@@Polygonlin they are. Which is why this guy hates them. He would rather do things the cowboy way, instead of following safety regulations.
This guy is gonna make it! Your beyond original and no one is in this content nieche!
Just commenting for the algorithm. I always get a kick out of your content, thanks for everything you do Marshall Patrick!
Missed chance on "No, I did't go to college cause I was busy....WORKIN!"
He said "busy building houses "
@@NorroTakufor 64 years lol
Greatest lie ever told was that you could learn more in a classroom in 4 years than you could on the job in 2.
Shit 9months
I mean the first 2 years is bs but depending on the degree when people get general classes done they then move to actual education. Also, the degree is good so when you have it you can get started going up ladder to get to higher paying jobs
Depends on a lot
@@tom_upnow The trouble is that every field is competitive. A lot of people forget that having a degree doesn't mean you'll get a job. You have to get hired before you move up, and there are plenty of people who are now tens of thousands of dollars in debt for their dream profession who can't get a job in the field they busted their asses to be in.
Hell yeah. I took Spanish for four years, not fluent at all. But a few years into a job site and I can cuss you out pretty well for a pinche gringo.
Spot on. I have three degrees and although they are in the fields of design construction/engineering does not equate at all to real-work experience.
Outside of management or supervisory positions, there should be a greater emphasis on candidates who are willing to learn and be trained. Nearly all employers want someone with experience because more often than not they're too lazy to train people.
It's not just that. Training people on your own dime is losing money. Then when done training those employees can leave for a better paying job.
So a lot of times it's a risk for employers to train new hires. But, somebody needs to do it. Otherwise they can't complain there's nobody qualified in the workforce. As long as they're willing to pay people what they're worth, they'll stick around after training.
@@robertm5969 Exactly.
this right here was me a few years ago when i was applying for IT jobs. I had lots of experience but every place i applied to for entry level jobs wanted 4-year degrees, while i had a 2-year in accounting. Ended up getting my first IT job at a helpdesk at the hospital i was working at as a PCT. Got the job cause the manager had heard from others working in IT that i had been fixing all the computer issues that would arise in my unit at the time without having to call them. So she hired me and did that job without complaint for 3 years before quiting due to the hospital being bought out by a corporate company. Ended up getting an IT job at a university that bypassed the requirement for a degree and they liked how much knowledge and experience i had. Have received mutliple pay increased and making good money with many beneficial perks that work around my family like as a single dad.
Have always said a degree is only good with really specialized areas, other wise it means nothing as i would rather have someone with hands on experience over someone who just memorized a bunch of words in a book and takes test well. That person with real world knowledge will run circles around the college kid every time.
That’s exactly why I got out of IT. I had a 2 year degree with 5 years experience and it didn’t get me anywhere. I decided to become a mechanic working on more specialized vehicles. Life is much simpler while getting paid way more. Nobody asks a mechanic if he’s got a degree before he fixes something worth millions of dollars.
you don't have to have degrees for IT, just certs. Find some educational IT media and once you've studied enough buy a test attempt.
They taught us enough at comp sci school to be able to do things and I got hired via an internship thru the uni so now I have the three years down pat
This one hurt too much to watch, literally the singular reason our world will fall apart piece of paper of knowledge & experience
Getting educated was fun, meeting and networking with people who saw the world differently from you was fun. Making connections and feeling like you are gonna contribute to society is fun.
What’s not fun is applying to jobs and working a job that’s not in your degree field because you can’t find work for your degree.
Still was fun.
I work in a chemical plant, I was a former hazmat specialist for the company. I'd do the boots on the ground work with some of the most dangerous stuff available in the plant. I'm talking about the kinda stuff where one breath of it will begin to dissolve your lungs, and you die in agony on the floor choking on your own liquefied lung tissue. I'd also manage the process responsible for said chemical.
When we'd have a process upset or some other emergency all the salary people with college degrees would run to the control room to plan things out and talk and talk and talk and mostly, to hide. Regardless of the fact that a worst case scenario just at our building would make the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal seem like a stiff fart in comparison and that they were by no means safe in that control room. Willing to wait it out till a potential emergency became a full-blown emergency (this is why we have advanced alarm systems in place)
So who would actually stop the potential emergency? Us hazmat folk. My team and I. We'd suit up and go into harms way to get hands on with the process and stop whatever the hell went wrong. You know what talking gets you in an emergency? a disaster. None on my team had a relevant degree, most of us myself included had never set foot in college. But we had on the job training, our own experience as well as all the experience of everyone that came before us in the plant. Sometimes, a lot of the time, you need to both think and act at the same time.
Hell one of the times we went back in the control room after repairing a very critical pump and found the salary folk trying to put together a powerpoint presentation to explain to themselves how to fix the problem.
They're not all bad though. Never underestimate someone with a degree who genuinely knows what they're doing and how to do it. I've seen them suss out a problem and provide a solution before we even got our SCBA's on.
You hazwoper guys are vital....
The most accurate and fair take I've ever read on social media. Degree'd people are easy to make fun of, but many of us would be without a job without them. That powerpoint story is totally something I could see happening 🤣
Experience beats a degree.... 70% of the time... if not more
and rising... with colleges these days.
Also because the company can pay you less and you’re competent compared to the collegiate employee with no experience they have to pay more for them just to get experience lol
99% of the time. The 1% is so the parents to be proud of their child having a degree.
😂
All the time
100% of the time. 70%? You’re trippin.
I have a Master of Science in Engineering and have changed careers and want to get licensed in Wetland delineation. The licencing requirements dictate an Earth Sciences degree or somesuch when whats trulry required is field experience and knowlehge of soils and plant ID. Kinda sucks because I'm too old to get yet another degree that bears no direct relevance to this line of work. The bar was set high so only a few could get in. Now that they are retiring the herd is thinning and there are few replacements for a variety of reasons.
I went to college to get a a nursing degree and now I’m working as a Diesel mechanic making tons of money and can work anywhere on the planet.
Degrees are overrated unless you want to specialize in a certain field that requires specialized learning that can’t learn in the job like a nurse or doctor.
I think more women should become mechanics as well. It’s a great field and great money.
Yeah like scientific fields, a lot of complicated things you need to learn before being able to do science.
I too went to nursing school and the most important thing I learned as a nurse is that being a nurse fucking sucks and to go do literally any other fucking job.
@Dan the Man Amen lol
@@lethality666 idk man 3 days a week and 100k is a pretty sweet gig
@@samuelw4492 no nurse makes 100K without being a traveler and they get the absolute worst of the worst of these jobs and none of them work 3 days a week.
You can scoot by life without a degree just fine, you just gotta be willing to learn
"Know what you're doing?"
" Not really "
"Wanna learn"
" Yes sir "
"Aight be back here 6am tomorrow"
I went to the military, then college, then trades, to my own business that has nothing to do with any of it.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
I need one of those Morning Wood shirts. 😂
This is true everywhere but it also sucks when people lie about experience and destroy the job site. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ Give them 30min to handle a job and if it doesn't look professional tell them bye.
I will admit. Getting a degree made me level up big time in the oilfield, but i was already in my field prior to enrolling into college.
That is actually a really good way to go about that. You knew exactly what degree you needed in your field to advance.
The best hire is one who was experienced first, and then went and got a degree to go along with that experience. That's a person who not only knows what they're doing, but getting the degree shows they actually want to keep doing it.
I just started working hvac at my local hospital but I did 2 years of hvac school honestly it’s a big difference
You have to attach yourself to the government school system and pay for everything yourself, unless you weren't born here. You can work for fifty years and know everything there is to know and it doesn't matter. The guy with the degree is usually not as smart as someone who worked hands on. It's a game you have to play. You'll never be allowed to make millions and retire on a beach somewhere. They take the money out of your check every week but when it comes time to retire you'll never see that money. Best thing you can do is work off grid and bank your money. Don't get hooked into the government money scheme you'll be much happier and have more money to enjoy life
I mean you are 100% and I agree completely. But the government makes the money. They print it at a federal reserve and electronically fund saving and loans and funding huts throughout the nation. They set the rates and they run the economic ebb and flow. It isn't taking advantage of programs that hurts as those funds have already been squandered and calculated into multiple long term plans and runways and not taking advantage of tax breaks or incentives will ultimately not change a thing and at worse leave you further behind than someone that will.
Better, 10 years of work. Without playing the trap of a game. Move away from the usa, renounce citizenship to cut ties with this overrated shithole of a country. Then enjoy life.
Millions renouncing citizenship to get away from here. Millions more in queue.
I'd pay marshal Patrick to work for him too. Love the humor bud.
Them shits get expensive....lmfao fucking funny shit man
My bachelors is in Healthcare Management and even though I worked in the field for years prior to obtaining a degree, I got bored. Luckily, I was able to switch careers & get into construction but I had to use the angle of “healthcare construction.” I don’t think you necessarily need a degree in engineering or construction management, you’ll company will teach you everything on the job. A degree really isn’t necessary in construction however, I do think a degree does give you that leg up
Meanwhile, guys with degrees are asked for a degree AND 4 years experience for an entry level position.
EDIT: Forgot the part where this guy has worked for the city... WTF Hire this man!
LOL... "Roofin, drywall, electrical... Everything!". Notice how he didn't say plumbing. See you know he's done plumbing, and he knows how to do plumbing. He just aint gonna mention that, cuz nobody wants to fuckin do plumbing. Even plumbers, and that's not bullshit I know several, they hate it, they just get paid "just good enough" to make it worth it. They ought to get paid more, like seasoned garbage collectors. Of course garbage has less material cost to collect than plumbing has to install so we can only dream... Respect, plumbers. Love you guys for doing that god awful fuckin job, you make the world go round.
Got a Bachelors degree in construction, its nothing more than a very expensive wall hanger. It opened very few doors and the only doors open pay less than 40k with no benefits. I now work in a warehouse making base pay of 65k with benefits, and get more vacation time.
Traffic manager.... a truckers arch nemesis!
Degrees are like a pretty model they both just something to look at E.O.E
Experience Over Everything ✊🏿✊🏿
We need to get you more SUBS/EXPOSURE!!!! Funniest fuckin videos! 😂 Every damn one is a hit lol 😂
Best bet to me is to work a trade for a full time job and go to and work college classes around it. Means busting a$$ for a few years, but the end result is solid experience of a trade and the knowledge from school.
My former supervisor was someone who was hired from the shop floor. He was a welder like everyone he supervised, heck, my coworker has his old locker. As supervisor, if there was a problem, he was the one who could fix it cause he knew the lifts we make inside and out. He made everything at one point or another.
Well, he was promoted to plant manager, and they hired someone salaried from sales/purchasing to take over for supervisor. The guy has no idea what welding is.
Dont get me wrong, he's a great guy, but the issues really started to show this week when he realized he scheduled a ship date weeks too soon cause he didnt understand how big the job we were working on really was. Every other job after that is affected and we have to work twice as hard to even get a chance to ship those out on time.
sounds like it worked bc he got you to work twice as hard
This is the best love letter to all the hard workers and true professionals in the world, rejected by stupid rules that either don't make sense or just aren't helpful and hold people back.
😂😂😂 shirts on back wards AND inside out. Ive watched this 3 times and just noticed hahaha
I share every one of your videos with my hole FB and insta and send it to my contacts to you are so.funny and my construction buddys wil love these vidios
I like as it progressed the points were becoming larger and more ridiculous just to show nothing matters.
Omg, this is so true. I worked for a company for 17 yrs for the last two yrs was promised a management position and then someone with a degree got hired and I put in my two weeks. Funny thing is that person they hired didn't last 9 months.
Just subscribed my man.... you hitting the nail on the head with these type videos. Git you some mo!
You’re a great actor and every single video is spot on 😂
This the TRUTH!!! ALOT of jobs hire new supervisors, and managers with a degree, but no floor experience. They have absolutely no idea what it takes to do the job... It's like having a black belt, but never been in a fight. It sounds good in theory, and on paper, but that's it.
Just noticed the morning wood shirt
School and experience are two different things. Learning the hard way with working for diesel mechanics. I know bits and pieces but still trying to figure out the stupid basic lower tier stuff that school never touched on and I feel super dumb about. Getting second thoughts about college right now
64 years experience in concrete, gardening, framing, electrical, roofing, own your equipment, cranes, excavator, trucks, strong work ethics, always on time and never missed a day of work, ready to work for free and even pay to do the work !!! Man just start your own company !! You are ready !!
The company i work for only hires full time builders who completed an intermship with them. To get an internship you need to show you have a degree or working towards it.
😂😂...that "It's a klassik!" He said with authority and Aunt Wanda aounds like a hoot. 😂
How in the hell did this comment get in this video. I was watching Travis. 😂😂
Experience trumps college degree at every profession on earth, yes including heart and brain surgery.
I wouldn't hire someone with a degree. It proves to me they can be scammed and trapped in debt. Two weeks on a site is worth more than 5 years in school.
After working construction for 20 years, being a superintendent for 10 of those I went back to college and before I finish my college degree I landed a sweet job as a construction manager for an architectural firm, which I would have zero chance of landing without a degree
I always thought college degrees in STEM fields were the only degrees worth getting besides pre-med and pre-law.
Did you get a construction management degree or something else? This has been my plan to go get a cm degree but have had a couple people tell me to go with business administration instead because I already have construction experience.
@@edg3818 I am taking business admin now and what I have learned has helped me run my business far better than before I had the degree. The knowledge you learn in school is great, just try to find an inexpensive place to learn it
I laughed so much and I really needed it too thanks
I know a whole lot of people with 4 and 8 year degrees that are working minimum wage jobs. I also know a whole lot of people that have jobs making good money and have nothing more than a high school diploma or a trade school diploma.
He does an annual inspection on his cranes every morning
I used to work in a warehouse, state job, driving around with a rider pallet jack building orders, counting orders, and loading, and then building computers and working with customers when we started doing surplus sales. Got stuck as a temp due to position freeze for entire dept, and then laid off later.
15 years later when a job opening for that place shows up on the state site now? Yep, bachelor's in business required.
There is a lot of truth to this.
A lot of employers have filters for people without degrees. Doesn't matter if you have decades of experience, you can't get past the job application systems. They won't even see your application because the filters auto reject you.
My God this literally happened to me twice. Goodwill of all places. Over a decade and a half of store management experience with references. I already knew the business in and out. They then proceeded to hire somebody with an engineering degree and told me it was because all they cared about was a college degree. They didn't even care if it had nothing to do with business it just showed initiative for going to college. Whereas working the actual business for a decade and a half wasn't enough. They got rid of three other managers just to hire people with degrees. All of them were fired or had to quit within one to two years because the business went to crap.
Exact same thing happened at Lincare. They burned through managers but unless you had a degree they wouldn't look at you. Worked that place and knew it in and out.
I could go on and on for people I know same boat. Well liked well knowledgeable but didn't have a degree. And not even in the business they needed it in to boot
I experienced the opposite. I got a degree in Accounting in 2015 and I have not been able to get a job because I don't have any experience. I have been a teacher since 2016, and almost every year I have tried to get a job in accounting with no luck. I did have one job offer to make $40K a year with a 2 hour daily commute. I can make $20K more as a teacher so that wouldn't make sense.
Times like this make me glad some employers will look the other way if you got experience over a piece of paper that says you're really good at keeping your head down and reading. Too bad that's all they promote to manager positions these days.
I was expecting him to say: Fine, if you won't hire me, I'll start my own company. You know I got the resources.
I see comments about 2 years of job experience being better than 4 years of college. In my experience that is WAY off. I have 3 years college experience and over a decade of job experience.
Generally speaking I have learned WAY more in college than while doing jobs. For one thing, you can learn most entry level positions in under 6 months and after that you are mostly just repeating the same things over and over.
I will grant there are some critical things you only learn by doing jobs. For example, I learned a lot about life and practical heuristics such as "slow is smooth, smooth is fast." That aside, most jobs only teach you the bare minimum and restrict your learning opportunities to only the specific requirements for each particular job. If you switch to a different job you usually have to start back at the beginning because very few of the things you learn in one job actually apply in other jobs.
Even so, I have learned far more things in college than in all the jobs I've done combined. In my experience college is a much more intense, rapid, and extensive way to learn than jobs.
This whole video is exactly why at 31 I am getting my degree
39 here. it's fucking ridiculous. and we all know the people writing the job postings and demanding degrees have no fucking clue about the job.
Yessir! That is how it goes. I work in IT, but it’s basically the same story there as well - really every field. However, you can get into IT without a degree. But you do tend to need it to advance into the higher roles, unfortunately.
The really rough part is that what I learn in my degree I’ll mostly use. Many degree requirements just ask for an MBA or something, and you’ll effectively waste four years just for that piece of paper. In Computer Science, my first attempted degree, and Computer Information Technology, you tend to use a lot of what you learn aside from the calculus.
Reminds me when my work hired a supervisor who never worked the job and knew nothing of it, over workers who knew it all, because he had a degree.
In Musical Theory. The job was not music related. 😜
I drove truck for a few years, and the first thing my OTR trainer told me was 'forget everything you learned in school'.
I know its for the skit but if you have that much experience and equipment you are already working for yourself.
This hits home hard
So in my experience degrees are good for a few fields where you need to know regulations and give you knowlege on certain aspects you may not get with just experience. However i think experience is the better teacher overall. Its comparing reading a maitnence manual vs just doing the maintenance yourself.
I've been a Scaffolder for 13 years now, journeyman for 8 years. In my first year I out earned my mom who has been in IT for 13 years at that point with a 4 year degree.
I got an AA. Can I have the job? Plus, I can weld non cert, and have a lot of my own tools.
Morning Wood! HAhahHAHAHAhhahaahahahHAHAA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅🤣😂😂😅😅😅😅🤣
While generally worthless, I do believe a degree is highly beneficial or should be required certain feilds of work like engineering or anything to do with medical but most degrees are an absolute waste of time!
I myself just got a regular old public high school edumacation and got started in the trades while still in school. Im currently 35 years old and for the last 5 years Ive been working as a commercial construction superintendent making just over 6 figures with FULL benifits including 100% company paid health, vision, and dental, 401k with company matched contributions, paid sick leave, paid holidays, paid vacation, company profit sharing and a company truck with gas card. I make more money than nearly all of my friends that went to college and love what I do whilst they all whine and complain how mundane their jobs are and how much debt they are in from school.
Cheers from Brandon Mississippi
Companies be like “you need to have a degree and 10 years of experience. We are looking for an experienced individual”.
Also, the pay is 30k a year. It’s an entry level position….
Later, at the weekly management meeting:
"We're understaffed. Nobody wants to work anymore. Back in my day..."
I just watched a video about shear walls and racking, sliding, overturning, how there's an entire chart of nail size vs sheathing thickness and how many you must use per panel and precisely where they go; and this was a 14min hip-pocket video. Holy cats. There's no way you learn this stuff on the jobsite. The apprenticeship program for Carpenters must be insane.
The shirt on backwards got me
This is why going to different companies is so lucrative. If each one pays you $5k-$7K more. A few years of jumping ship and your base salary is up there. Seriously, if you start trades using a diploma/work program, it is way cheaper and you make money sooner. The only guaranteed free money you'll get it compound iterest. When you make a decent buck at 21 and put some away, people that have a degree and are still looking for work at 25-26 and have student debt to pay for the next 20 years (average),stand no chance.
You'll retire sooner. You'll have bought your house when it was cheaper. You'll have benefits. If you are in a union position, the bank will loan you the earth with no questions asked. Your aveage income from 21 until you retire will be higher.
Use to work at a Harley Davidson factory for an industrial cleaning company (for the paint lab) and had an incredible boss who was the ideal biker hard ass can be but great and genuine guy but as much as he knew about the job Harley wouldn't hire him to their company cause he didn't have a degree. Piece of paper doesn't mean anything when they tell you to "forget everything you learned in college".
Dude, my wife did me the same way before she'd let me take her to bed. Wanted me to get a PhD. Well i did, and after 12 years of slowly diminishing returns......i wish i had majored in something else by god.
PhD = Pimpin hoes Daily
I can safely say my company values experience over degrees
“I want this position but it says I need a degree.”
“They just put that on here. Apply using this link.”
Gonna have to get him a side walk poured 😆
I've spent 20 years in the trades. In my experience, people with college degrees are more intelligent and work harder. Working straight out of highschool is the easier path and it shows.
Easily the laziest, most unmotivated group of people I've ever had to work with. I've worked in a lot of industries and I can't think of a worse group of people to be stuck around every day.
He said I'ma burn down every single house 🤣
Unless you graduated in thr top 10% of your class and could demonstrate am understanding of the academic criteria, a college degree really doesn't show you can do the job, shadowing at least or some hands on experience of direct work related tasks encountered on the job I feel. Would be more valuable.
Unfortunately most employers say they only hire experienced people, but how do you get experience unless you're hired in thr first place? And how do you get hired? Usually by showing you have the sought after degree.
Degrees really are jusr liability shields *well he has a degree, he outa known better*
Same with certificates, that way, HR can say "he was certified in the safe handling and using of [said tool], because he misused it, however sleight, he will he let go"
Its all guarding employers from liability and lawsuits
God tier comedy. Well done.
“We can’t promote you to supervisor because you don’t have a bachelor’s, but we hired outside the company and we’ll need you to train him to be your supervisor, because you have the most experience.”
Well tbh the answer is neither because every graduate/starting role needs a degree AND 4 years experience
Morning wood lumber company hahahahahaha
I think k it would be fair to hire people with both. Like if someone has a bachelor they should have close to 1.5-2 years exp. However no degree they should have close to double the length of the degree so for a person not in college or degree should have 6-8 years
My friend went to college for a masters degree in accounting... he's a plumber now and I make more money with a GED
Sadly/Annoyingly/Angrily waaaaaay too much emphasis of the importance of "having a degree" versus experience has been given! Experience can be sooooo much more valuable over the action of "obtaining a degree"! ARG! Hahahahaha! O:-)
That's where I'm at. I train college interns to be management, but all I can be is leadman.... For years