Become an electrician and build the AI data centers that will eventually be used to train the robot that’s going to replace you. I’m almost in the same boat.

>>35002010
nothing is worth your time and effort
your life is over
you go to college, get your degree
you don’t get the internship, because they prefer a 21 year old hottie as a sexual relief for mid/senior positions instead
and you just have a degree but still have to work in the food truck
at this point you may as well wait until ai takes over every job and ubi

should have thought about a career when you were in your early 20s

>>35002019
>>35002021
you dont have to reply to threads if you don't actually have answers

>>35002010
Become a forester.

>>35002113
dude I gave you an answer
what? is the only answer you are gonna accept
>ohh sweetie youre so young you got your whole life ahead of you, go study XYZ and you will have a wholesome chungus career ahead of you

fucking nigger
you have whole reddit for that sort of gaslight
life is short
and job market is hell right now
and you are old

like what am I supposed to tell you?
that there is a magical rainbow that will give an old fuck like you a dream job?
it doesn’t work like that

>>35002211
you typed all that but in the end said nothing of value

>>35002211
Holy trvke

>>35002219
holy samefag

>>35002010
It literally does not matter.

Having a college degree IS of value, because most "white collar" businesses still use that as an easy gatekeeper. A degree shows you have some discipline and ambition.

But what the degree is IN is actually a lot less significant. Except for a few purely tech fields, you do not need to have majored in X to get a job in X. Indeed, you don't need any special degree or major for a career in sales, management, HR, logistics, government, insurance, etc etc etc

A go-getter English, History or Philosophy grad will be hired ahead of a brain-dead business or STEM grad

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>>35002010
>career path
the one where you'll be able to network your way in
it's already mostly nepotism/cronysim, and it's only going to get worse

>>35002010
Id avoid college unless essential to something you want.
If you want to get the slip of paper get it from clep classes. Theyre competency tests that award you 3 credits for passing. I went on a binge for a month and studied 3 days, took test, passed then went to the next one.
The tests/sitting fee cost less than 100 when I took them. Theres some ways to waiver the fees tho.
3 colleges will accept every class from clep except one.
Realistically though id just go to the department of labor, look up jobs in demand and growing jobs and pick from there.
About half of them are in medical. I had a friend get in with only a convenience store job on their resume. Another works seasonally because the demand is so high. In some cases they will pay for the education and training too.

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>>35002010
Unfortunately, as >>35002211 mentioned, the job market is absolutely, clinically fucked right now for anybody who is a non-traditional employee. So all these fucking NEETs that think they can just enter into the workforce are in for very, very rude awakenings when they realize how competitive it is right now. It's an employer's market--always has been, since the 90s, arguably, but the question is HOW fucked it is, and it is massively fucked. People who have jobs are holding them for dear life, because getting cut off the line means either taking bitch work or working for a year to get another job. The employers get hundreds of candidates and are picky, they want people who are going to stay, places like where I am are in no rush to hire, and when they are, they are on a slow burn to pick a fucking unicorn.

Millennials are supposed to be at the life stage of mid-way in their careers, so early management or at least skilled in an area. If you aren't that, you're at a disadvantage compared to a Gen Z kid, because well, they're young and at least they have an excuse. Now YOU get questioned on why you were not upskilling yourself for the last fifteen years. Yeah, many millennials were graduating college in 2010-2015, or at that time were skilling themselves in the workplace or in some form of education. Where were you, would literally be the first question out of my mouth as an interviewer, and you'd better have a good answer besides playing video games, because there's 100 hungry motherfuckers banging on our door wanting to get in and work.

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>>35002010

The only actual advice I can give you based on what you've provided is to go find local state schools and go for Business Administration. It's an "I need a degree but don't care because I just want a job" degree. You can spin it to just about any office job, or focus on something while in school. Plus, every state school has a cheap program and with the current state of affairs, getting in should be piss easy because enrollments are down since GenZ and gen alpha are college-averse. Just know you'll be the old duck in the pond.

>>35004052
>blah blah the job market is bad blah blah
this isnt advice

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>what job or degree/cert is worth the time and effort?
Unironically, become a gardener specializing in landscaping.

I'm reading this as a 26 year old, and I'm wondering if it's too late for me. I want to go back school to get a degree, I'm tired of retail and I'm tired of my shitty life.

>>35002010
there are fuck tons of training and degrees you can do at your local community college that will get you a good paying job. just look it up and apply.

>>35002010
Something related to working with aging boomers.. home care aide, nursing home etc