School is such a guaranteed one now during Covid – you don't even get social serendipity. You're literally sitting there on Zoom burning through cash.
What common folk don't realize is that college is just a luxury consumption good of the rich.
What common folk don't realize is that college is just a luxury consumption good of the rich.
The Anglo-Saxons were a people made out of immigrants from Germanic Europe that migrated to what is now England and mingled with indigenous British groups, tracing back to the 5th century. It's often used to refer to the language spoken in England and eastern Scotland until the mid-12th century, also called Old English. The culture and language were pretty much defunct after the Norman Conquest.
Something I found out / realized not that long ago: the Norman Conquest wasn't actually vikings, but French from Normandy. Mind you, vikings from Denmark and Norway were also a thing around the same time.
They were a mixed people, partly descended from Vikings. Not only people descended from Vikings invaded England. You had non Viking French in there too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestants#...
The only remaining usage of Anglo Saxon in the contemporary USA is as part of the already antiquated “WASP” term.
Anglo Saxon in reference to the US is in my very-online anecdotal experience roughly ~70% French speakers, 15% continental Europeans, and 15% race based nationalists.
Americans usually just say “white”, even when specifically referring to classic WASP cases, especially after the Germans, Italians, and other ethnic groups were absorbed over the last century.
In Germany the term is used to refer to the germanic tribe of the same name, which settled in Britain, and its asserted descendents, i.e. a somewhat loose collection of Great Britain, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The influence of Anglo-Saxon culture is the main reason why English culture isn't the same as French culture, so I don't think you can really say it's defunct. The influence of French is stronger in southern 'BBC' English, but England has a lot of regional dialects that still retain a lot of quite ancient linguistic influences.
This has been the case in the recent past and is probably still true right now but the trend won't last forever.
The result was a huge flood of doctors that were...not the best, and some fairly dodgy medical schools.
Of course, this also ended up pushing malpractice insurance (and tuition) into six figures, so I guess we achieved balance.
We’re starting to see some similar stuff, going on, now, in software development. There’s some...not the best, engineers, out there.
I know that E&O insurance isn’t cheap, but it’s a tiny fraction of medical malpractice insurance.
That may change, as Big Data, terrible security practices, and ML/AI are starting to make the old adage ”To err is human; but it takes a computer to really screw things up.” kick into overdrive.
Residency slots have not changed much if at all in decades due to the AMA.
It wasn’t until the late 00s do we see any meaningful uptick in medical graduates.
I don't have first-hand perspective on this but my impression is that this is already happening in India to some extent with so many young people getting engineering/CS degrees because they see them as a way out of poverty only to realize that the demand just isn't there.
There are a number of "robots" that don't exist that I'd love to have. Something to do laundry. (we already have washers and dryers, but folders are just getting started, and nothing to pick my dirty clothes off the floor and put clean back into my closet). Something to do dishes (again gathering them off the table to clean in the cupboards)
There is also a lot of options in the medical field. Right now I know someone who was told that surgery is the normal path for his cancer, but because it is so close to a nerve they aren't willing to risk that - finding a better answer for his case is a combination of medical science and engineering. I know someone else who is going to die who if cancer was discovered sooner would have been treatable. I won't even mention the next pandemic.
The above is but a short list of things that an engineer can work on. I look forward to seeing what the rest come up with.
You don't need that to find a decent job. Most developer/programmer jobs have very little to do with comp. sci (which is math) and a lot more with practical application of few select skills.
Not the degree per se (the piece of paper), but the breadth of what you learn.
I find most people who have "really made it" without a degree to be exceptionally bright and wouldn't have needed the push/discipline of a college education anyways.
What does this mean? "Decently" as in what? I left university last year with a master's in EE and I'm paid £26k/year before tax(!) to write C. Even for graduate jobs, that's not amazing.
It doesn't mean that you can't get a bad deal, but that wouldn't be the norm.
The average software engineer's salary [1] in the UK is much higher than the average electrical engineer's salary [2]. Since you're writing code anyways (within the realm of doing software engineering work), would it make sense to pivot over to a software engineering position?
[1] https://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/average-software-en...
[2] https://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/average-electrical-...
This is not true in a lot of countries according to my experience. I would not suggest this path for anyone that might start college in a couple of years. Unless you manage to get into a big company you'll probably find it easier to get a job and a good salary in many other sectors. I know pre-school teachers that had a 30% higher entry level salary than me, and they didn't even finish their education before getting jobs thrown their way.
The supply of Comp Sci./Eng. people has increased A LOT. And there will be an explosion with all of the new graduates that have been told exactly what you're saying.
Where I live I pay roughly 34% tax on my income.
For engineering at least I think the other 25% of college should be building things, and unfortunately that is much harder online!
For one, for a lot of the “useful” degrees, getting a hands-in learning experience just isn’t possible without equipment your average person can’t afford or likely even purchase if they could afford it. Outside of that is CD, which is already reasonably easy to break into without the credential.
You can get a MS in CS from Georgia Tech for roughly $7,000 US dollars total cost... if you can get accepted and complete the work. GT's CS program is consistently ranked in the top 10 CS programs world wide.
Today, you can easily earn a six figure salary anywhere in the US with this degree (provided you have good work ethic and are reasonable to get along with).