When I was in school, I was always told “If you get a college degree you’ll on average make 500k more over the life time of your career regardless of what you get your degree in!”

Then as I finishing school, it was all about “If you get into tech you’ll make big bucks and always have jobs!”

Both of those have turned out not great for a lot of people.

Then whenever women say they’re struggling with money online, they get pointed to OF… which pays nothing to 99% of creators. Also very presumptive to suggest that, but we don’t even need to get into that.

So is there a field/career strategy that you feel like is currently being over pushed?

(My examples are USA, Nevada/Utah is where I grew up, if maybe it’s different in other parts of USA even.)

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    If you want a good job, become a social media influencer. It pays more than most other jobs, and you can be the worst type of person and still make it big.

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      2 months ago

      That seems like survivorship bias. Curious how much the average aspiring influencer goes on to make in the field…