Hello everyone,
I just need to vent because I am fed up and I will try to keep it short.
A few months ago I overheard my mom and my older sister talking about job hunting etc. and my mom was telling my sister to get a job because she is 32 now and never worked a day in her life because "she just doesn't want to and can find a job in an instant whenever she wants to" and then my mom said "your sister (me) has been trying to find a job for the past 3 months and even though she is trying she fails because the job market is oversaturated and how do you expect to find a job real quick when you have no job experience at the age of 32"
AND THEN MY SISTER HAD THE AUDACITY TO SAY
"she is probably applying to some stupid job like teaching and no one hires her"
and then my mom said "she is applying to every job that she is interested in and qualified for, it's not her it's the job market"
AND MY SISTER SAID
"YEAH NO ONE WOULD HIRE HER WITH THAT STUPID USELESS DEGREE SHE HAS, I AM A STEM GRADUATE AND I COULD GET HIRED IN AN INSTANT IF I WANTED TO"
the audacity.
I felt so bad when I heard their convo but didn't say anything because I didn't want to argue.
Anyway, fast forward to today I have a job that pays me pretty well and I have my own place. The other day when I visited my parents (she lives with them) she asked me about my salary and when I told her she said "I wish I had that kind of money, I would be very happy".
I am so sick of almost every STEM major thinking they are superior or something. At the end of the day, it is about what you do with your own life, not the type of degree you have. Hard work always pays off.