dont wanna go back there :/

  • grillpilled [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    General Educational Development. In the US and Canada, you can drop out of highschool and get that instead. It's supposed to count as a highschool diploma.

    I don't recommend this, though. People will look down on you and be leas likely to hire you for it compared to having a normal highschool diploma. It's supposed to be for if you drop out of highschool and regret it, then you get a GED so that people will hire you.

    For employability, highschool diploma > GED > nothing. It shouldn't be this way and it's evil, but you might screw yourself over if you drop out of highschool. Try waiting it out if you can.

    I spent my last year of highschool as a zombie and got bad grades, and would have died if I had to stay there a month longer. I'm glad I stayed, though, because work is hell. The jobs you can get without a highschool diploma are torture. I don't think you can get any kind of job where you're allowed to sit down nowadays without a highschool diploma.

      • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, honestly just fucking lie on your resume. You think employers are really going around calling your high school to make sure you graduated? That has like never happened.

        I didn't graduate high school (technically), didn't get a diploma afterwards, never once hesitated to lie on a resume. Everybody assumes you graduated high school so nobody checks.

        I'm a teacher now and generally recommend against dropping out, but there are definitely kids who are clearly being made miserable by school and it takes a heavy psychic toll but are convinced for some reason that they have to finish high school on time. Like unless you're going straight into university after grade 12 it really doesn't matter.

      • grillpilled [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Since you went to university, of course they're not asking about your highschool diploma. Employers don't just care about your job experience. If they did, people who dropped out of highschool would be making as much money as people who went to university. You can't get the job experience that gets you high-paying jobs unless you have an education.

        People with a highschool diploma do make more than people with a GED, and people with a GED do make more than people who dropped out of highschool and didn't get a GED. Stats from the US and Canada say the same thing.

        https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2012/02/ged-recipients-have-lower-earnings-are-less-likely-to-enter-college.html

        Every job I've ever applied to except for a meatpacking plant that employed actual children and paid in cash asked about my education when I was applying. Tim Hortons asked about my education. You have to say what the highest degree you have is. In the past few years, every job I've applied to has even asked me for my GPA in university. And I'm just applying for basic office jobs.