I’m been thinking a lot about my future lately and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve had it with blue collar work. I want more out of life than living paycheck to paycheck. For sometime now, I’ve been hearing that college degrees are worthless nowadays so thought about getting Comptia certifications (A+ and then Sec+) and working remotely. But then I thought about if AI will make those certifications obsolete. I know that “AI taking jobs” is a bit of sensationalist reporting but I do have legitimate concerns. I then thought about going back to college for “advance” careers like computer science and/or electrical engineering; more specifically, a bachelor’s degree.
What I want to know is this: would returning to college, especially for a tech-oriented degree, or will it be a waste of time and money? Should I pursue an alternative like certs? Thanks in advance.
that doesnt count, its the same as getting a lab tech job, and expecting to get a lab assistant, or lab research entry level position, its not the same, you’re resume will be automatically put in a trash. because you dont have the qualifications for lab work, such as experimentation, science paper research writing, because lab tech are just “lab specific janitors” or shown that you had research experience somewhere else, i only met one instance where it can be considered a possible entry in your resume to be hired as biotech employee, if you did enough for the lab to put your name in a research paper to be publish, than its possible. i met someone who did lab tech, and he was published. being published is a pretty big deal with EMPLOYERS and grad school(at least for phd), although its a very rare thing to do and lab work is not easily accessible to students which would be the catch-22 of volunteering.
maybe if have experience in tech field already, and working as a janitor as a inbetween job, than maybe.