Am I going to end up poor and with no job if I study foreign language & literature? I fell for the stem meme...

why not just pursue education in a field that will give you a well paying job and study what you want in your free time?

I can’t think of any career paths except doctors and maybe some tech jobs (most likely temporary) that provide this. Seriously college is a meme even for STEM students.

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t. poor with no job

No, you can get a wagecuck job with any degree, just have to play the game. You'll be fine. As a programmer I would suggest you drop STEM and do what you want.

It depends on what you want to do, but German is an important business language, so maybe that as it would make a good pair with Chinese.
Languages are practical and useful. My uncle was just a bookworm who decided to study languages at university and now has a very well paying job because of his language knowledge (French, German, Spanish). Few people in the world are multilingual. It can open up many opportunities that a standard English or Literature degree could never provide. So I'd say go for it.

>teach English
>work as a translator

I don't want to remain in academia. Being a translator doesn't sound appealing

Thanks for the advice.
What kind of job does your uncle have?
I'm still pretty unsure about the whole thing. I can't take stem anymore but I don't know what else to do

ANY college degree is only worth what you make of it.

There's plenty of stem faggots out there who don't actually get good jobs because they never actually apply themselves and learn anything difficult in college, and there's plenty of humanities majors who make tons of dough after college because they actually learned something, and applied it to the real world. The reverse can of course bet true as well.

The point is, if you have the thinking that all you got to do is get your dumb degree stamped, and you'll magically get a good job, or even be destined to pointless poverty just based on your degree then you're thinking about it all wrong.

Your degree doesn't fucking matter. What you learn, what your plan to do with that knowledge is, that's what matters.

If you don't have any fucking clue as to what specifically you want to learn about language and literature, and what you would like to do with that knowledge, I'd advise that you don't even go to college at all.

Depressed people tend to get a sick thrill out of dragging people into the same hole they're in.

If you study foreign language there are a lot of things you can do. Literature is not “worthless” but it’s not going to help you find a job.

>Literature is not “worthless” but it’s not going to help you find a job.

It's not inherently going to find you a job, no, but nothing you study is going to do that. It's all about what you do with it, I know people with lit degrees who got good jobs, some even in shit that has nothing to do with lit. It's like everything in life, it's not what you are or what you know or any of that shit, it's just what you do with it that matters, how you execute.

What kind of jobs do they get?

Just do TEFL after.

I started computer science and I couldn't handle all math shit and why do they teach so many courses at once and they are all unrelated and boring jesus what do people find interesting about this god I'm going to be poor for the rest of my life I played myself

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misery loves company. if things were going well for you, you wouldnt be posting on this site.

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I don't know much about it, but it's basically high level sales for a huge tech company, he travels to offices around Europe. Might not be something you want to do, but it's a "good" job.
Honestly it sounds like you don't really want to do anything, so my advice to you is switch your degree, and just do it, think about a job when you finish.
I am half way through my degree and I can't wait for it to be over, even though I mostly enjoy the content. (Though maybe this is because I am a mature student) Just get it over with. As the other user says, it doesn't really matter what you do, it's what you learn and how you apply it to the world.

You ending up poor is more dependent on your class, connections and the prestige of the institution you got the degree from. Actual content of the degree doesn't matter that much. Only things you are going to get locked out from are jobs ect where the content actually matters (you aren't going to be a doctor without going to medical school for example)

there's a growing number of jobs in editing right now actually so look into that

Thanks for the advice. You're right. There's nothing in mind I really want to do. Only reason I'm in university is because I got a scholarship and because I'm a third worlder so this is a chance to escape that. I constantly feel guilt from feeling like I'm wasting the opportunity

I'm from a 3rd world shithole and I'm going to school in East Asia. I don't think that'll get me very far.

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