>27>Has a PHD in theoretical physics
I have a theoretical PHD in theoretical physics
Maybe he skipped classes and that's why it took so long
>>736431060Ah nice another demoralization thread in a video game board
>>736431060If you come from money getting a PhD is piss easy. Just lock in and study for 5-6 years. So long as you have your rent and food taken care off studying is even fun.
>>736431060>he fucks up so hard on the job he dooms the planetI see no issue here
I had a master's at 25.What the fuck, are you guys seriously not living your lives AND playing video games?If games aren't a reward for a job well done, what's even the point?
>>736431135>copies joke>get the joke wrong
>>736431425>job well done>fell for the scam of the century and paid hundreds of thousands for a piece of paper that is now worthless
I have a PhD yet I still post here.
>>736431464I have a theoretical PHD in the theoretical stealing of jokes
>>736431320You don't study in a PhD, you work.
>>736431320This"Freeman"? Really? He's definitely a nepobaby.
>>736431060I had my physics masters at 23, it's possible
>>736431481sir they're english degrees they were already worthless but now I have job experience so it's moot
>>736431060highly trained professional, he was scouted for black mesa too
>>736431326Bullshit, those black mesa scumbags were already doing incursions into Xen long before the resonance cascade. They already had specimens and were experimenting on them, long enough that they'd developed weaponry based on their findings.That was the whole point of Questionable Ethics. Did you play beyond the first level?
>>736431597That's a name that former slaves took, ie a poor black person name. It's a nod to Morgan Freeman.
>>736431060Why did they have him doing manual labour? Couldn't they have just grabbed one of the security guards to push the cart?
Back when I was doing my law degree there were glowies at our university scouting for secret services candidates.
>>736431060I finished my masters at 22, then worked for 3 years and did a mba at 25. Gordon is on par for the course.
>approaching 32 and still stuck in an inescapable, actively worsening 4 year depression spiral as a 6th year phd studentI should have killed myself at 30 like I promised to
i dropped out in 7th grade
>>7364310603 years for bachelors 2 for masters3 for PhdIf you are a diligent student that is exactly how long it takes
>>736431937You escaped the Matrix, what is it like being immune to government brainwashing?
>>736431060>getting my masters at 29It's over....
>>736431786sir that chamber casually ended the world. it requires a highly trained professional
>>736431993Lonely, unironically.
>>736431326How did he fuck up? He didn't personally select that crystal. His bosses did and they were themselves deceived by G-Man.
>>736431060Why not? He's a free man after all.
>>736431578>You don't study in a PhD, you work.Unpaid work isn't work. If you have to pay for it yourself or through loans it's part of your education.
You know this is sci fi because it's about physics PhDs having cool jobs
>>736431060It's called having focus
>>736431060that's the mean age of PhD recipients, yeah.>>736431320>>736434058physics grads get paid to work, over $30k a year.>>736431786very typical for a post-doc. Do you think experimentalists have wage slaves to put shit together for them?Well they do, they're called grad students and post docs.
>>736431060>>736431892>>736434482Autistic people mature slower than normal people so these threads are just autistic anons venting about being out of step.
I want to get a masters degree, and then a doctorate, but I can't afford it
>>736434482>physics grads get paid to work, over $30k a year.You have to apply for grants, and good fucking luck with that these days.
>>736434169it always gets me when a stemfag ends up broke like everyone else
>>736431464He theoretically got it right.
>>736434058KWAB let me guess American, in every other country you get paid during your Phd, maybe not enough compared to the workload but still enough to get by easily
>>736431786And you think any of the security guards would've been willing? They've seen what sort of shit that place gets up to, and how god awful their safety record is.The entire reason Gordon gets put in the barrel is because he's still green enough to be fooled into doing so. If he had any idea what the fuck he's actually doing, he'd have quit by the time he finished the hazard course.Not to say Gordon was their only option. We end up seeing on Xen that there's a whole bunch of entirely expendable guys in HEV suits working for Black Mesa, with the final boss room alone having four of the poor bastards.
>>736434678Your advisor mostly does that. At any school with a functional grad program you're essentially guaranteed 6 years if you do the work. They budget grad students when they decide how many to accept. So grant applications for students are usually supplemental.Besides, usually enough wise people drop out of their own volition. Physics also gives out Masters degrees as consolation prizes to those people.
>>736431060I have a PhD A PRETTY HUGE DICK HAHAHA
I don't get what's so odd about thisYou go to college 17-184 years bachelors2 years masters4 years PhDYou finish 27-28I'm pretty sure that's standard lengths And speaking from experience you can do a masters in 1 year (highly do not recommend)
>have "small doctorate" (gimmick in my europoor country from the past, basically no more years of studying but a single extra exam (tough tho))>pretty much useless today EXCEPT for flexing on people who can't tell the difference and watching real PhDs seethe in anger and bending over backwards to say we're not the sameI hate academics so much lmao, getting it was worth it to ragebait these stuck up faggots alone
I want to get a PhD to get the doctor title but I really hate school and college and academia
>>736431060>finish BSc at 21, finish MSc at 22, finish PhD at 26I don't see the issue
>>736438203I got my nursery degree on a public university and the insufferable bitch who taught us patient ethics and psychology who barely even exercised as a nurse and always butted heads with me (despite the fact I was already working at a hospital doing X-Rays) now studies nursing at the private University I teach part-time at, L M A O
>>736438492>>736438186Why dont you have a PhD if its so easy then?
>>736431786>Why did they have him doing manual labour?Freeman was essentially a step above an intern. Odds are the newer guys draw the short straws on that and you stick with it since Black Mesa was like a holy grail of positions which Gordon only basically got because one of the top scientists there was his professor at MIT.
>>736431425Ok? A Master's is not a PhD A PhD takes another 4 years minimum on top of MastersAre you able to add 25 and 4 together?
>>736431060Its very doable if you are one of those super smart people
do credentials (MA, PhD, MBA etc) even matter if you're an autist like myself who doesn't network or really do anything besides the bare minimum of going to class and handing in assignments? even if I had a PhD I'd still just be cold applying to jobs on linkedin and indeed
>>736438870If you're doing a PhD and managed to not build any connections in your field you're most likely not getting the degree to begin with.
>>736431060Should have went to a trade school.
>>736438870Other than being able to flex on chad on occasion, no, there is no pointNetworking and "college life" itself is like 90% of higher educationThe other 10% you can find online.
I didn't go to college because I couldn't figure out credit systems and still have no idea what to do for work, since nothing seems appealing to me at all beyond vidya, anime and jerking off. I'm 37.
>>736438870>if you're an autist like myself who doesn't network or really do anything besides the bare minimum of going to class and handing in assignmentsSee your mistake is thinking that a PhD has this at all, it's quiet literally four years of doing networking and brownnosing
>>736438870i can tell you right now that the answer is noemployers value evidence and sources of you actually doing stuff more than anything and a piece of paper doesn't do that
>>736438186I'm doing my first year of master's at 24, I wish online classes didn't hold my lazy ass backAt least I have a small scholarship due to working on a side thing with some teachers, but I'm barely doing a damn thingI just wanted to make videogames man I don't want to know what a dockerfile is or how to benchmark a database
>>736438870I'll let you know fucking BA's barely matter if you don't know people or have that rare ability to bullshit interviews the right way. Ironically Associates are the only ones that open doors these days because it basically proves you are slightly better than a high school grad.
>>736438870Depends how much in demand your field is. You can be a fucking social trainwreck but if you're studying a PhD in like how to perform x surgery with y equipment you'll have people bending backwards to give you the job.
>>736431060In my headcanon gordon is 37 and not 27 it makes far more sense.
>>736439182And the real bane of autists is that most interviews aren't there to see how qualified you are, they already know if you got to the table, it's about how you will be as a co-worker.
Can we discuss the game? I liek surface tension.
>>736431060>getting a phd in numerical physics at 36I'm a failureAlso I hate physics
>>736431786Because all the other qualified people were either dead in Xen or occupied elsewhere.
>>736438870>do credentials (MA, PhD, MBA etc) even matterDepends where you want to goAs others said connections are a large part and never hurtBut there are lots of places where you'll need one>e.g. if the field has "bio" in it in my country you'd better have a phd unless you want to be an errand boyAnd places where you might not need it>corporations, high demand and/or relatively young scenes (old people have lived longer to gather more credentials so often hold theirs over everyone they can) may well let you slide as long as you show you know your shit and have it together
>>736439593I like On A Rail. You're all wrong
Reminder that statistically the average age of a graduate student in america is 33. Don't feel like a loser for getting your master's at 30, /v/ros
>>736439879It's high because shit's expensive yo. If you have money you should have a PhD by then.
>>736439593Same here. Best chapter in the game. I also have a soft spot for office complex and we got hostiles. Also, black mesa xen is so tedious and boring that it made appreciate the OG xen.
>>736439861There's...there's nothing to like
I mean I got my Masters are 22~ and two to four years for a PhD lines up right
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>>736439879That number is HIGHLY inflated by rich foreign students. If you were born in America, you basically have no excuse to not have finished by 30.
>>736440261The excuse is actually working in your field, loser.
assuming he graduated at like 16 from highschool and was taking advanced classes, I don't see the problem.
>>736431060You can't really claim the physics are "theoretical" after everything that happened.
>>736439593No, OP made me feel insecure with his regurgitated bait post
>>736431425>hundreds of thousands for a piece of paperDo Amerimutts really?
>>736439861I thought On A Rail was fine. The low point for me was that teleporter maze leading up to Xen. Or Xen itself.
>>736431425A college degree isn't living your life lol.
>>736431786Because he was still a new hire at the time of the cascade
>>736431961>3 for PhdOh, my sweet summer child...
>>736439879Embarassing
You made this dogshit thread about nothing already.
>fell for that boomer bullshit advice of "study what you love" and "just get a degree, it doesn't matter which one">get sociology degree and quickly realize how badly I fucked up>seems like my only options are to spend another 3 years and go to law school or spend another 4 years getting a PhD so i can become a professor >really wish I just did something boring but useful like accounting why do social science/liberal arts departments even exist if there's no employable job prospects in the field? to line the pockets of already rich professors with the money of gullible 18 year olds?
>>736440261Work experience will be worth more than a higher level degree early on. 30 isn't a bad metric but for some people, it's just more financially logical to work for a little longer and build up those years of experience for a resume before starting work on your MBA. If you come into the workforce at 28-29 with a PhD and 1-2 years of experience, you will lose to the guy with a BA/S and 8 years of experience.
>>736431481>scam of the centuryI also have a masters and make $180k usd / year lol it was a very good investmentIf you can't make a degree work that's a skill issue
>>736431481I had half of mine student loan erased because I graduated on time, remaining anount was 11k euros. I paid it away a long time ago.T. Nordic
>>736440774That's the horror of free market system. In European countries they only allow enough graduates to match the actual needs of the economy.
>>736441236Lmao what, what sort of propaganda is this
>>736440774>to line the pockets of already rich professorsDuh.College has always been a scam for this exact reason.>Pay high school teachers to talk up college as hard and positively as possible >Encourage, gas up and damn near frame it as a requirement for all graduates to take out loans from their banks to pay for college>Take their money>Profit>"Oh but now we have a bunch of college students who are vastly in debt before they even have their degree!"Doesn't matter anymore. They got your money. All they have to do now is frame the impressionable young students as dipshit idiots for taking out loans they should have never been allowed to take out on the first place and intimidate them into paying it back or suffer the consequences.
>>736441189This, and I got an M.D. for that plus a PhD. Though, my remaining student loan was at a staggering 20 000 € after all that.>inb4 people start defending the "for profit" education system
>>736440954You would have been making that with ot without the masters it really doesn't matter. Either you are the type of normalfag that can lie and brownnose your way into jobs or you aren't, there are people making 180k a year without degrees too, it's irrelevant
>>736440774>to line the pockets of already rich professors with the money of gullible 18 year olds?Yes, new humanities/ologies/studies are half that, but also half creating and maintaining a priest caste of 'experts' who have internalised progressive dogma and can curb all output of the field to avoid infringing on it or be called on whenever necessary to reinforce it
>>736441395I kinda realized this when a friend said he was getting an English degree to become an English teacher Seems a bit circular
>>736440774That other anon is right, you paid for a product and mistakenly thought it was like public education where you're just checking a box kekinflated tuitions shouldve clued you in it's a scam
>>736431060>Having a PhD in 1998Even people with full time jobs could do it in the 80's and 90's.>Requirements for getting degrees increases constantly.>Not because you need more education.>But because more requirements = More university profit.
>30yo>KHV NEET>barely made it out of high school>havent worked a single day of my life>cant drive>rely on parents and autismbucksIs this recoverable?
>>736441604>requirements are increased>but at the same time quotas existsI'm glsd such system doesn't exist in my country
>>736440476They were theoretical before they brought them into practice.
>>736441692Yes. My CompSci classmate was a 35 year old guy who only had a highschool diploma and worked as a bouncer all his life. I just checked his insta, he's currently living the life
>>736441692Depends on what you mean by "recoverable". If you start today, I think you can have a decent enough career. Your chance of ever starting a family is just about 0% though.
>>736441808>CompScilol ai will take all your jobs chud
>>736441868Bullshit, worse wastes of space have had bigger turnarounds
>>736441692you described me so now I have to read this thread
>>736442001By "worse wastes of space" do you perhaps mean druggies and petty criminals? They are social and have friends and relationship experience. A 30 year old KHHV without any life experience? A few more years and it is actually completely over and his role in life will be pretty much acting as a cautionary tale for autistic kids as to what happens if you refuse to go outside.
>>736431464Of course it's a frogposting retard.
>>736431060>be me, have master's degree in compsci in backwards country>completely unable to work for any regular company, rejected every time>get 2 job offers unprompted>they are both for either my country's version of the CIA or the military, where I'd probably write software for drones to dismember two year olds>deny because I am a moralfag (dunno why I got the glowie offer since I schizopost on /x/ without vpn or proxy)Is there a way to be successful in this world without being a massive faggot? Can I just write code?
>>736439593I was playing Half-Life Source for the first time and I actually kind of like how the barnacles are bugged in the game. You actually have to look out for them when you're know they're in an area and they can actually like, get you sometimes. I probably got grabbed by barnacles more times in that single source playthrough than I have from playing every other game in the series like 20 times, and I say that in a good way because barnacles are just complete non-threats.
>>736431060i had my phd at 29
>>736431464He's theoretically correct.
>>736442263unfortunately no I got the same thing as you
I need to get a doctorate in clinical psychology.....
>>736441692I went back to college for IT at 32 and I just graduated in December. I haven't been able to find work and now I'm almost certain that my destiny is in manufacturing.
>>736441808>CompSciOn top of universities spewing out graduates there's the fact that AI is absolutely fucking obliterating what little remained of the job market. If you are a senior, you still have chances, but if you are a fresh graduate, studying CS or going into it: it's fucking over. Hell, it's fucking over for you already, if you are just going into uni, since AI is coming for everyone: medical doctors (not as soon as for some other fields, but the training takes like 12 years, so within that time, sure as hell), lawyers, economics etc. IT'S FUCKING OVER!
>>736442414I've been a senior for 7 years already, I'm not worried at all.>>736441957Not mine. What about your degree?
>>736442213No, I meant worse
It's very telling that non-degree people swarm into this thread with their illusions of grandeur.
>>736431060Is theoretical physics just pushing shit around or something, because that's all Gordon does.
>>736442414This is true IT education is such a fucking scam in current yearI got my degree a couple months before covid hit and even back then it felt like i got on the last train to ever leave the IT career station.I genuinely feel for anyone finishing theirs now or in the past few years. Years of people's lives wasted on a piece of paper worth less than some gender studies rag.
>>736442796I just want to get a job, and a degree is unironically a requirement to get any entry-level position.
>>736442923Statistically a person with *any* bachelor's is going to make double the money a person with just a highschool diploma would.it's not just about the specialization its just that it allows for a vastly increased job market even if it's not in your field directly.
>>736441303I don't know if it works the same all over Europe but in my uni they usually accept 5-25 students each year for my field, depending on previous succesful graduates and situation on the market I guess
>>736431060is not impossible, here engineering is a 5 year plan, that means you need an extra year to do the exams so 6 years, you can start at 18 and be an engineer at 24, you still have 2-3 years left for a doctorate, all of this if you are a hyperautistic nolifer of course
>>736442263if you were smart you could code a saas claude wrapper startup and apply for ycomb but otherwise just take the job
>>736441692I have an uncle that recovered from a NEET LoL addict in his 30s to a truck driver then something in IT and got his life togetherI think that fucked me up for life because now I myself am a 25 NEET retard who keeps telling himself he still has at least 1 decade left to get it together since I've seen it happen
>>736442796I connected x to y and now I'm worth billions
>>736442796>illusions of grandeurDelusions of grandeur.
>>736441692I'm in my first year now and I'm 33. Other students in my field are mostly girls and other than occassional tease about me being basically grandpa it's fine and I made lot of friends, altough they were really suprised when I told them how old I am since they all thought I'm their age so I guess I look younger.Just hide your powerlevel and you'll be fine, but you have to work on yourself and find the discipline you've been lacking for years. I believe in you anon, you can do it!
>>736443379What a retarded mindset
>>736443542Yes, thank you for correction.
>>736441692Job site laborer companies will take anyone with a pulse, you just have to be able to do some heavy lifting without falling over dead and do sweeping without bitching about it. Do that for a few years, ideally while making some friends and learning about different companies and trades, and while deciding what you really want to do. Your only problem right now is having zero employment history, but all it takes is a single solid reference saying "hey this guy shows up to work and isn't an idiot" to move up in the blue collar world.
>>736431505major?
>>736431505Same, anon, same.
>>736438870if you become a medical doctor, no one cares because doctors are always needed.some other degree, might be tougher to get a job with.
>>736431060Finishing a PhD at 36. Science autists don't live at all. Trust me I've seen every kind of academic autistic there is at three different universities. Don't attempt that path, you will fail, you have no idea of the competition. Enjoy being mediocre.
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