Should You Get A Degree? 

4:17 "don't try to change the world by sitting this one out" I like that

tiktok level comment section, in big a's channel? unacceptable

Thought Atrioc in the past said if you an extrovert, any degree as long as you can network well. If introvert, unfortunately STEM 😂

Damn not even kidding, i wish i had a beard like him

I glanced at the title and saw "should you get a dragon?" And was so much more hyped for this video than this stupid degree thing

Please Big A validate my life decisions! 🙏🙏🙏

Atrioc finally getting that eboy cut

I feel like trades are one of the most overlooked jobs. When I was in high school it felt like I was presented with the choice of getting a dead-end job or going to college. I really started hating school in my junior/senior year and decided to take a gap year and try working as a stockman for an electrical company. I absolutely loved it, 2.5 years have passed and I'm now about halfway through my apprenticeship making good money. I really wish jobs like this were more emphasized in high school, maybe even allow people to try trade school for senior year.

If you're wanting to get into tech without a degree, work with your friends and social network and find someone who can vouch for your work ethic and passion and knowledge. Once you have your foot in the door, transferring from company to company without a degree is way easier and a lot of companies will want to try and keep you by training you to move to other parts of the company. This is fairly anecdotal and basically how I did it and I'm sitting at 60k, no degree and no certs. If you're wanting to at least look a little professional, get some certs like A+, Sec+, CCNA, or whatever your passion is in tech and try to take a couple courses over a couple years at a local college, because some college is better than no college.

i like atriocs hair here ngl, its very chilled out and hides his hairline

the boston dynamics robots can sort tools and materials and handle things with its hands, i think the robot worker technology is almost there, the question is how expensive will it be and if its worth replacing workers (most likely yes IMO)

I love these videos. I could listen to him give advice all day

damn didnt expect atrioc to drop some actual wisdom in the intro

Ofc I got a glassdoor ad on this vid

I got a D in intro to coding, so I'll start making a game this week. Thanks Atrioc!

5:50 the problem with this is viewing college as a product. Commodification of education is a terrible system

Why does Big A look like he’s been stranded for a week on a raft. My boy is tan and messy 👌

“If it was fun they wouldn’t call it work.” -My Dad

Big A hair looking fresh af

Big A's advice is good. The goal is in general it just cant be miserable all the time or there is no shot you do it consistently. Pick what works for you, but understand it still wont always be fun and easy.

I feel degrees are becoming less and less valuable. AI could revolutionize education... but with how much corruption and greed is in our Capitalist society/government I doubt it. They'd probably rather slash the budget than improve the education of future generations. Instead America decided to limit higher education access to the wealthy, limiting the poorer people to depend on charity (scholarships) to further their own future. They allow predatory loans to force people into debt for most of their lives. They slash the public education budget continually. America gets by because there's so many people... but I don't think a system that doesn't prioritize the future generations is going to stay the top superpower forever. Exploiting your own citizens over and over has to come at a cost...

For @GrimShady99 who asked about going back to uni to get a job in tech, don't bother what would be a better, cheaper, and less time consuming approach would be to do some certs. Find a cert that interests you and do it, they are quite expensive but waaaaay cheaper than uni fees. My recommendation would be maybe like a devops cert maybe something in Azure or AWS.

7:55 if you're a goat in whatever you do, a good employer should recognise your talent and make compromises

The best advice I got is get a degree that is an actual job title not just a subject. Engineer, doctor, pharmacist, ect. Not just math, biology, art.

How do i look at my retail job as fun or like, something good at all

Big a has helped me. Thanks big a

Got a degree in cybersecurity last year and got a help desk IT position a month later. I love to be a degenerate and smoke wax and play video games on my free time. I just lack the motivation to save money just because of how bleak the future looks. I love live music and spend alot of my money going to them with friends because it’s fun. Maybe if the idea of buying a house is more obtainable then I’ll start saving for it lol

Bad analogy working out is fun

Still waiting on my Dominoes Big A

2:55 I agree not working fir expsoure. But to do so on the very first jobs to get a portfolio in those creative job's. What you can always do.... is put a very nominal fee if the dev like it. Or, get a proper refernce of gratitude, in wich they pretend it was paid work.

Land surveyor apprentice, in South Carolina. Love the job, I'm outside year round, always somewhere new. It's hard work but doesn't feel like work to me. The problem is, to be licensed, you need a 4 year degree, as well as 4 years of apprenticeship, AND have 3 licensed surveyors sign approval for you. (states vary on requirements)

Better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent!

“I don’t regret it but I would never do it again” is basically the life mantra. And I hate that. Is life really meant to be lived this way. You made it. Great. What about us? What about everyone else?

I got a 20K degree in software. Now inflation has made my debt the same price as my lunch so we good

I dropped out of college and now I'm going to school for being an electrician

Unless you have a scholarship to pay for part of it I personally wouldn’t say it’s worth it. Thankfully I got a “Florida Bright Future Scholarship” that payed for 75% of my tuition. And then my parents were amazing and payed the remaining amount for me. But without that it easily would have been 30k or more (been years since I looked at it). Do the work and you’ll be rewarded.

Accounting. Relatively easy major, good pay

Wawawewoo what a handsome boy

I didnt start laying league till 1 year into my sofware job. The key is to not develop an addiction before you're set. In conclusion league should be 23+ only.

Glizzy

bro he has a lot of hair actualy

4:46 this is a fair point but you should add in that if you are going to work for what people would generally consider as the bad guys it's best to not let people know do what you need to but don't try to be an activist and lose your job or get harrassed only

Working out not fun keeping you big as hell

League coaching was decent stuff when I was able to do it around season 10, It was zero effort since if their rank was diamond or under I'd just say the exact same shit every session with every player and if they were masters+ coaching was legit fun and interesting. It's crazy to me that I'd be paid like $30/hr to tell some plat player the exact same obvious shit like "play parallel, trade on tempo, look at map" then a week later they'd pay me again with a new replay of the exact same thing lol

Big A isnt so big anymore

i left the hospo field after 5 years, downgraded to retail for 4. now i finally landed in a career as an electrician that i finally feel fulfilled by. making stuff makes me happy not dealing with stupid fucking people in customer service. now i just tell my boss to deal with them

bigA

Gray crewneck sweater and medium length hair? Yeah, time for Mr Cow to hit the retirement home ☹️

A major should be fun: Your major should be something you’re passionate about learning and excited to experience as a career. People who go into majors that they don’t like tend to not get involved in other ways: internships, seminars, networking events, career fairs, etc. It’s setting yourself up to be a weak candidate in the future and a self fulfilling prophecy of your degree not being worth it. You get out of college what you put in.

15 views ur really growing nice to see small channels grow 🎉

yo I have free tuition for college in my hometown. Should I pay to go to the dorms? if so shit i gotta get a job

What's the cost of an undergrad degree in the US? I mean obviously it's going to differ by subject but I'm currently studying a Bachelor of Engineering in Australia. The estimate cost of my degree as a domestic student is about AU$34,000 (US$22,077 as of 29/2). I don't come from the richest of backgrounds but I'm expecting to only have about AU$10-15,000 of student debt when I graduate which does not seem crippling. All the American media I see makes it look like it's a lot more expensive over there.

Should you get a degree ? 100%, should you go in debt for the majority of your adult life for it ? absolutely not :x, seriously just go to college abroad at that point :/. Does the US have more "on-hands" college program (eg: you have school group project to deliver but also need to spend 50%+ of your time in a real company doing apprenticeship kind of stuff) ? Cause that's a much more desireable way for some jobs like Software engineer for example.

take a degree in law or get a job, those pricks charge whatever they want as we all need them at some point... or get a degree from Stanford or harvard, any degree from those works, as long as you're good at networking

Just sell cars or real estate.

02:40 here I disagree with atrioc, old youtube lore. you can make amv style trailers for people that are better than theirs 'look what I can do, hire me/pay me with exposure'. There are so many options to do something the main issue is, don't get discouraged throughout your journey. many people in business don't know what is good when it hits them in the face. there is a reason most ceo's are blant and uninspiring because they aren't exceptional

HUGE A

It almost doesn't matter at all what you major in. Look at the stats, college grads make way more money. Seethe and cope if you disagree.

I am I tested in majoring in marketing or Comp sci. I want to do marketing or business at large, but am afraid of the stereotype of marketing majors and job prospects with the major

isnt it hypocritical to be a moral person and work for an “evil” corp? isnt it ths same mindset that boycotting doesnt work?

look into abigail shrier and how therapy can make you worse

The trades are a meme compared to college jobs. Just look at the numbers.

Did bro lose his house last night?

The comments aren't appearing along the bottom as he is talking about them, what lazy editing

4:28 you literally lose your morality in the process of acquiring the money. This is a contradictory statement.

seeking advice from this homeless man is absolutely wild man. i mean look at him :/

I’ll be honest with you I’m a financial auditor and none of this applied to my life

Why does Big A seem EMO today?

1 min 8 views. Just give up lil bro

8 views 1 minute, lil bro fell off

Sounds like an american problem

lil bro fell off

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