No problem, it has been my experience, and I try and pay it forward when I can. I'd have appreciated knowing this back when I was first starting out, but it wouldn't have changed much in terms of outcome.
As a young adult you don't often really have much experience dealing with duplicitous or deceitful people and processes.
Incidentally, I don't really go into it but there's almost as many if not more problems with getting a degree compared to certifications but it is the favored solution for the job market since you don't have people invalidating it (through deprecation) and its a one time fixed cost (after completion).
Without getting into detail, many core transfer requirements at the course level often don't provide any means for a student to control basic academic outcomes in bottlenecked courses and there's no effective due process to correct issues. You are at the professor's mercy and a lot of them simply don't want to teach but they still want to be paid for it. Its a form of fraud, but not one you can really go after them for without it costing more than the personal benefit.
That 4 year degree that is advertised may as well be a never-year degree if you are unable to somehow get around these arbitrary, unadvertised, but widespread impediments. Trying at another college or getting another teacher often isn't sufficient as these are widespread systemic issues. I've gone far afield while I was trying to get an engineering degree (early on), short of going to school outside the US , what you see with these things is what you get.
I've personally been slogging along for most of my young adult through mid-life trying to put myself through college for a degree while working. It may happen that I get a degree in business or underwater basket-weaving by the time I'm supposed to retire if I get a lucky break.
In the meantime I make a decent living by referral since the vast majority of most advertised positions are junk; and I'm a bit of a miracle worker, my reputations gotten around locally and my work pretty much speaks for itself; I've more than a few systems that are still running a decade after deployment with no major issues. Ransomware incidents have happened occasionally, but they've largely been inconsequential to the businesses involved as a result of preventative measures and policy recommendations.
Those junk positions are usually some data miner, or broker seeking to either elicit, obtain or sell your personal or proprietary information they get from you to someone with no real position being available. They've monetized the interview process and advertise year round, same positions.
I've had more than a few instances in what I initially thought were good-faith interviews, where I've had to end the interview prematurely because it became clear they were more interested in trying to solicit proprietary information that they were not entitled to. Sometimes you just have to walk away, any place that tries to do shady stuff during the interview process isn't a place I want to work and you are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you.
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No problem, it has been my experience, and I try and pay it forward when I can. I'd have appreciated knowing this back when I was first starting out, but it wouldn't have changed much in terms of outcome.
As a young adult you don't often really have much experience dealing with duplicitous or deceitful people and processes.
Incidentally, I don't really go into it but there's almost as many if not more problems with getting a degree compared to certifications but it is the favored solution for the job market since you don't have people invalidating it (through deprecation) and its a one time fixed cost (after completion).
Without getting into detail, many core transfer requirements at the course level often don't provide any means for a student to control basic academic outcomes in bottlenecked courses and there's no effective due process to correct issues. You are at the professor's mercy and a lot of them simply don't want to teach but they still want to be paid for it. Its a form of fraud, but not one you can really go after them for without it costing more than the personal benefit.
That 4 year degree that is advertised may as well be a never-year degree if you are unable to somehow get around these arbitrary, unadvertised, but widespread impediments. Trying at another college or getting another teacher often isn't sufficient as these are widespread systemic issues. I've gone far afield while I was trying to get an engineering degree (early on), short of going to school outside the US , what you see with these things is what you get.
I've personally been slogging along for most of my young adult through mid-life trying to put myself through college for a degree while working. It may happen that I get a degree in business or underwater basket-weaving by the time I'm supposed to retire if I get a lucky break.
In the meantime I make a decent living by referral since the vast majority of most advertised positions are junk; and I'm a bit of a miracle worker, my reputations gotten around locally and my work pretty much speaks for itself; I've more than a few systems that are still running a decade after deployment with no major issues. Ransomware incidents have happened occasionally, but they've largely been inconsequential to the businesses involved as a result of preventative measures and policy recommendations.
Those junk positions are usually some data miner, or broker seeking to either elicit, obtain or sell your personal or proprietary information they get from you to someone with no real position being available. They've monetized the interview process and advertise year round, same positions.
I've had more than a few instances in what I initially thought were good-faith interviews, where I've had to end the interview prematurely because it became clear they were more interested in trying to solicit proprietary information that they were not entitled to. Sometimes you just have to walk away, any place that tries to do shady stuff during the interview process isn't a place I want to work and you are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you.