Anyone else feel the same? What can be done about it? What good alternatives? The internet suggests trade jobs, but how can there be time for other things?
Anyone else feel the same? What can be done about it? What good alternatives? The internet suggests trade jobs, but how can there be time for other things?
I live with my parents. Gonna get a passport soon for when I may need to use it. A lot of credentials are scams btw I’ve learned that. Stay safe.
The commodified version of education is problematic. And educational institutions’ marketing departments have a lot to answer for. But if we look past the qualification, education itself is not a scam.
True, but how can I get education at a cheap price without going through all these “smart” classes and enduring this APUSH bullshit propaganda I’ll be dealing with for the next few months, and hopefully not ever again.
Just to be clear, I agree that some courses are scams, and the people running them do not care at all about the students. Some courses are more scam-y than others. I was mainly rejecting the idea that e.g. certain qualifications are scams because the graduates do not end up getting the relevant job. That is problematic, but the education could still be useful. It might depend on the students’ expectations going in.
If you are only taking a course because you need it to get a job, find out from the people with the jobs what qualifications they want. Do not take the word of the person selling the education!
Then find out if the person offering the job will hire you first, on the promise that you will get the qualification later, maybe part-time. And / or then ask the employer to pay for or contribute to the costs of the course. You’d be surprised how many employers will do this if you show drive / ambition and convince them that your getting the qualification will improve their company / institution. Try not to interpret this as ‘work all the unsociable hours’ – get enough work done in the (standard?) working day.
Hmm… you raise an interesting question, there. Unfortunately, I do not think you will ever avoid the propaganda. If it’s less noticeable because it’s not a random intruder telling you about how stocks work, it’s just more subtle.
But there are strategies for dealing with propaganda and dealing with the bourgeois / liberal world outlook.
Thank you for the information! I find it to be great advice to know the qualifications of a job because then as you work on them, you may have experience, which is what the employer is looking for.
Thank you for the advice on dealing with liberal propaganda. I have been learning outside of class, however as of now, the teacher seems to assign work that will only be done by a specific source or video. Other assignments are able to be done with other sources, so I will try out Michael Parenti’s works. Could you share recommendations of his?
What examples of credentials that may be scams? I might have ran into them before but I can’t quite tell
I did a TEFL UK course went through that and they’re getting wicked about the last like 2 assignments. What a waste it’s gonna be done. Now I hear you can just buy these credentials, that’s what EJ says.
I heard that as well! I wonder how much they would cost…