https://fortune.com/europe/2024/02/05/unemployed-gen-z-turn-work-down-because-they-cant-afford-commute-uniform-report-cost-of-living-crisis/

  • daedramachine [he/him, they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Care-Comrade Fucking hell, grad school was hell even without that sort of application process, I'm sorry it went like that for you.

    • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Thanks, never got in. Took all my college savings for that app round, the whole idea people can apply multiple rounds is beyond me. I could never earn enough to apply again, and now I'm aged out, while I was interviewing I overheard them boot a guy who was merely 30 for being too old, though he was quite qualified I thought. I hoped lab work would strengthen a future application but now I realize, that's now how it works, and they don't want people like me in the sciences anyhow, and I mean that in multiple ways.

      • daedramachine [he/him, they/them]
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        9 months ago

        On the other side a PhD my husband never was able to get in a lot of the issues of bigtory never got better. There's nothing like dedicating 4-7 years of your life to something to only find you can't get in for various reason, its psychological torture.

        In your case I can tell that particular wicked little school is somewhere in EEurope, Asia or California right off the bat since many programs don't care that much on age, on fit you're absolutely right you are out. Consider yourself lucky in two ways, 1 your labor won't be used to make horrors beyond our mere mortal conceptions and 1.5 you should always be on strike as an information worker in the west, they don't need a single scientist or engineer more unless there's an 'eternal science of MLism' in there as far as the non imperial world is concerned since all your craft ends up hurting more than helping, and 2 that shit's gonna end up in the ocean any minute now when the big one finally hits inshallah another cut to the west.