College degree vs Actual Job

Structured Confusion

COLLEGE DEGREEACTUAL JOBCosts $200k to feelsmartTeaches 18th-centurylit analysisProfessors haven'tworked outsideacademiaInvolvespretending tounderstandthingsDeadlinesnobodyactuallyenforcesCoffee as acopingmechanismTeaches Excel viapanicBoss learnedmanagement from apodcastPays you to answerSlack at midnightStructured Confusionilovevenndiagrams.com

Only College degree

  • • Costs $200k to feel smart
  • • Teaches 18th-century lit analysis
  • • Professors haven't worked outside academia

What They Share

  • • Involves pretending to understand things
  • • Deadlines nobody actually enforces
  • • Coffee as a coping mechanism

Only Actual Job

  • • Teaches Excel via panic
  • • Boss learned management from a podcast
  • • Pays you to answer Slack at midnight
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