The pandemic has turned my husband [M33] into a conspiracy theorist and I'm [F31] very worried.
🧠These people are stupid!
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Having 1 degree is nice, having 2 is maybe better, but having 3 or more just tells me you don’t know what to do with your life besides go to school because you’re used to it and thinks it makes you smarter. Especially when you refer to them as “science degrees”, it’s like how the only people that refer to their degrees as “engineering degrees” instead of specifying because they got a civil or audio engineering degree and want to just impress people. Many people actually count it as a red flag on a resume to see multiple degrees or to even have a 4.0, because the people who excel at memorizing things for tests and put so much importance in school are typically incapable of being practical and useful enough to implement in the industry. The skills for school really do not crossover to industry at all, it’s more just proof to an employer that you’re willing to stick through something difficult in that relevant field and are willing to learn.
It's not difficult to have three or four degrees. If you get a associate, a bachelor, and a master, then you have three. You could get an associate and two bachelors and have three degrees. I have a friend with three masters degrees in addition to his bachelor. Now that's excessive!
Especially when they’re all in similar fields. They share most of the same classes, so it tells me once you got one degree, you just wanted to stay in school and take a few more classes instead of going and getting a job because you want to boast about getting multiple degrees or are just too used to going to school and receiving grant money. Like 3 4-year “science” degrees doesn’t mean 12 years of school, it’s probably more like 5-6.