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Can someone explain to me how I have four degrees and still can't get a job?
Does anyone know how I can go back five years in time and get a different college degree?
Congratulations. You are studying the most pointless university degree ever.
Okay, so today's going to be an interesting one. We're going to be talking about degrees and how many people are realizing the one they got is pretty useless. Whether it's because of the choice of degree they got while getting into five or six figures worth of debt or the terrible job market they walked into after graduating. It seems like nobody can get a job right now as those same jobs are being taken away by AI every single day. We have a lot to go over today along with comments from you guys from previous videos. So if you want to be featured on a future video, leave in the comments down below. But let's start off with a pretty crazy one. Someone with four different degrees that still can't get a job. Can someone explain to me how I have four degrees and still can't get a job? BA in communication, BA in Spanish, BFA in dance. Get ready for this one. Master's degree in freaking journalism. Mind you, I've gotten laid off not once, not twice, but three times in the span of two years. So, if you're feeling behind, just know you're not alone. Basically, we're all cooked.
We're just going to go straight over to the comment section with this one. You majored in hobbies with 165,000 likes, communication, dance, Spanish, and journalism. You're qualified to report about the latest episode of Dancing with the Stars on Telmundo. Not much else. Almost 100,000 likes on that comment as well. Did you search top 10 useless degrees and pick what to study from there? You got degrees on high school electives. I'm sorry, but a dance degree. Not the most employable degree. The creator responds, "Not the most employable, but definitely the most iconic." Like, what am I supposed to say about that? The biggest difference between a BA degree and a large pizza. A large pizza can feed a family. Bro has four degrees and things people do in their free time. Create a Spanish dancing news channel. I mean, this just went on and on. So, this was basically the sentiment with everybody in the comment section. Congratulations. You are studying the most pointless university degree ever. I mean, what are you going to do with that? I hope you don't think you're going to get a job because I've got news for you. Be honest with me. Did you just do it for the freshest? Did you just do it for the student loan? Tell me now.
And we head over to this comment section. Not looking too good either. I'm studying journalism, so I got news for you. Marine biology. So far, I haven't seen a single fish. I'm extremely disappointed. History. Oh, I'm so cooked. Gender studies. Political science. Art. Started studying before the AI boom. Absolutely cooked. I'm doing criminology, foreign languages. There was about 4,000 more comments saying the exact same thing. And even with the first example, some of those degrees were kind of ridiculous. There's an increasing amount of people who don't use their degree no matter what they got. I asked you guys in the comments. Do you know someone with a degree they don't use? Me? I have a degree in theater and studio art. I'm a stay-at-home mom now. Yes, biblical studies from a private school. We're actually going to see that in a second. Yes, my buddy has a bio degree and he's a manager at a manufacturing company. Me, I graduated with sociology and psychology. Didn't do anything with the course. I have a brother with a marketing degree. I have a cousin with a degree in biology again and a minor in Chinese language. She's currently trying to become a hair stylist. Nearly everybody I know here in the UK, unless it's medicine, I work in a supermarket and there's a nurse who finds less pressure over stocking the shelves than dealing with pressure at the hospital. 90% of the people I know, me and a bunch of my class that graduated with graphic design degrees. AI is killing art. I mean, there are an unlimited amount of examples on social media on Tik Tok with people regretting the degrees that they got. Anyone else spend three years on an advanced degree that you don't use? Here's mine. The good old Masters of Divinity. Does anyone know how I can go back 5 years in time and get a different college degree? Cuz I'd really like to do that. Please, please, somebody tell me how to do that.
I graduated with a psych degree. And was no one going to tell me how difficult it is to get a job? You might be thinking, why did you get a psych degree? Beats me. I've been applying for months. I've been doing really random jobs just to get by. Delivering food, filing class actions on Sparrow, freelance work. I'm literally about to move home because I cannot find a job.
Did you do any research before choosing your major? A bachelor's in psych has been pretty much useless for quite a while. Psych degrees have been a meme for like two decades now. You should have Googled it before you went with that degree. In my area, master's degrees in psych starts at around $59,000 a year. That's pretty rough when you're most likely talking about six figures worth of student debt. Well, we have a comment from you guys talking about an older example in a previous video. Imagine getting a soil biology PhD and then acting surprised when you have to move near farmland. That's exactly what we saw. Somebody spent a ton of money getting a PhD and then realizing that there were no jobs for her where she lived in mostly a city area. I think this went very well with another example up on screen that I found. The only paleontology program in a 100 miles of me hasn't hired anybody new in 24 years. Literally, what am I going to do with my life now? Probably something I would have researched before I got this degree. And that's what people were talking about in the comment section. Paleontology is one of those things you were passionate enough to get a degree in. It now you got to be passionate enough to devote your life to it. Sounds like you're moving. Have you tried applying at your local Walmart to work in their paleontology section? Oh man. former paleontologist here. Part of the reason I left it is because it's incredibly restrictive for looking for jobs. If you're willing to move, though, you could find something. My friend who got a master's in archaeology applied to a PhD programs for paleontology and then realized their subzero jobs. He's a defense attorney now. And most of the other comments were similar to this. I don't know anyone who has a specialized job with a specialized degree that didn't move across the country or to a different country for their job. With something like paleontology, you're going to have to apply everywhere and move for your job. And there was another comment I saw from you guys that went incredibly well with this. It's like getting an archaeology PhD, but you don't want to travel to historic sites. I really don't know what to tell you if you don't want to move from where you originally grew up. Maybe these degrees weren't the best idea.
Another interesting screenshot here. When you find out that you got into your dream college, but the first thing on your dad's mind is how are you going to pay for it? And it's her crying. Now, this got almost 10,000 likes and 15,000 comments. So, you could probably guess what a lot of people's reactions were. Because your dad lives in reality and is trying to make you live in it as well. I think it's reprehensible and extremely selfish to apply to colleges your parents can't afford. I don't know if this is more common than I thought, especially in today's climate where everything is much more expensive. I honestly didn't believe that any parents were paying for their kids' higher education unless they were extremely wealthy genuinely. So just having this type of thought process is wild to me. Get a good crime and when you're done you could start thinking about how to pay for it.
And we have another comment here. Follow your heart is responsible for a lot of very bad decisions. Talking about going to school, going to university to follow your passions. You get a degree in that field and then more often than not there are either no jobs or not many well-paying jobs to pay off those student loans. I think this goes handinhand with your dream college, your dream university. You want to go to this most likely big school that's very expensive, have the college experience, get new friends, party. I mean, just start racking up the debt as fast as possible. And once you're all said and done out into the real world, it is a rude awakening. What is your major and expected salary?
My major is film. My expected salary is to the moon.
My major is bio. It's pretty basic. Um, I want to be an optometrist, so I'm looking at like 100k to like 150k a year.
Computer science. Starting salary, let's hope like 80k minimum hopefully. I want higher, but like I got to be realistic. I don't know.
My major is film. The jobs you can get are vary. You can be a freelancer. You can work for a company. It can go from 50 to maybe 200k a year.
Computer science. Uh I have no clue.
What would you be happy with?
A good like 100,000.
Okay, that's fair.
Major business law and then my expected salary. I don't know. When I looked up it said 100,000 a year. That's what it says. It kind of seems like a lot of these people don't know what the salary range is either. The goal that we've been hearing for years and years, I want to make $100,000 a year. Also, a couple of the guys who did the film degree stuff, I've already talked about it. I was kind of in the same realm. I wanted to do something in film before I eventually dropped out of community college. But it was primarily because I just enjoyed making YouTube videos. I didn't want to be a filmmaker or cinematographers in LA. But regardless, if you truly do have that kind of passion, you don't really need to go to school for it. You just need to do it. You need real world experience putting up all of your projects online for people to see. A lot of networking and grinding it out is involved as well. It's not really a linear path like this. You go from high school to a university, get a film degree, and then right after that, you just start making, I guess, anywhere from $50 to $200,000 a year. That was one of the guys projected salary. I mean, again, he's going to have a rude awakening in the real world. Those film guys aren't going to get anything over 60,000. Crazy. Only the computer science kids were the realistic ones in this. Well, this video isn't super current, so CS degrees are very oversaturated right now along with the AI problems. Funny, half of them are going to do nothing with their major. My major was film and I regret it a,000%. You don't need a degree for freelancing. That was the film guy as well. And there's even more on screen. Me and my $250,000 degree that can't seem to get me a full-time job. a4 million dollar staring at my nursing degree in two years knowing it isn't what I actually want and wasted years of my life. So, she's not even done with it. Two degrees, no internships, constant rejections, still at college job, nobody's hiring. I don't know what to do anymore. Unfortunately, this was the moment I knew I picked the wrong degree. I could have just made this video an hour long of just example after example like this. I have a criminal justice degree and I hate it. Everything is lowpaying and awful. You're not the first one I've heard that hates it. One of my friends doesn't even say she has a degree. Why don't folks not research before picking a degree? Graduated with a BS in child development and then realized I don't like kids or working with them. You couldn't have realized that before you got into a whole bunch of debt.
Here we have another screenshot. The worst college degrees for employment in 2025. Up at the top, anthropology. We have physics. We'll talk about in a second. Computer engineering. Commercial art and graphic design. Fine arts. Sociology. There's computer science. chemistry. Unfortunately, a lot of what's on this list is talked about in these videos. Here's another one. Most regretted college majors at the top. Journalism 87%. You're getting really close to almost everybody regretting that degree. Sociology at 72, liberal arts again, communications, education, marketing, a medical degree at 58, political science 56, biology 52, and English language and literature at 52%. But we'll go back to a physics degree because a lot of people talk about going into STEM and it's widely known that getting a degree in physics is very demanding, very difficult. So, you would assume that the jobs that you would get after university would be very good. And it doesn't seem like that's the case.
We graduated with the physics degree. We got out. We thought the job search would be easy. We'd be able to find a job, I don't know, NASA, the local electric company, um something that involves physics. But no, dude, they don't really want you at the bachelor's level. There's a big misconception out there that if you major in anything STEM rellated, you're automatically going to have a great job and great career after you graduate. The unfortunate reality is that this is not true at all. And the difficulty of your major does not have a direct correlation with the job market and the quality of life after you graduate. I know people in my life that were STEM majors, they could not find a job after they graduated. The issue is that you these 18-year-olds coming into college and told major in STEM, major in STEM. They pick a STEM major and they don't realize that a lot of these majors require you to go to grad school to get a good paying job. Take biology for example. Biology, you need to go to grad school to get a good paying job. It's not an undergraduate degree, but no one really tells you that in high school.
Now, this could be the case. However, it can be a double-edged sword. I think it goes very well with the next clip. POV, college graduates coping in this economy. Yeah, maybe the job market is bad, but it's okay. I just do my masters and then if it's still bad after I do my masters, I can just do like a research trip in Brazil or something.
So, I don't have to tell you how bad the job market is right now and how some people are avoiding it completely, just going to school for more and more degrees. Whether you rack up different kinds like we saw with the first clip, or you go from bachelor's to a master's to a PhD, young adults will stay in college indefinitely, buying degrees to avoid entering the workforce and then facing potential failure because they're going to fail when they start a new job. And then colleges capitalize on this exact fear. They know that that's what they're afraid of. And so that's when they try to upsell them master's degree programs and graduate degree programs. They promote the idea that an endless pursuit of purchasing paper is noble or even preferable to work. They make it seem like it's more righteous, like it's a higher calling to just sit there and produce nothing except for your own debt. Even if it means that you're accumulating directionless debt that has no function for your life, the loan system facilitates them doing this. And as long as they're continually taking out loans, exactly like you said, they'll continue to loan to them and they won't have to pay. So, it's a pretty slippery slope. people just realize all of a sudden they end up at the bottom and they're in so much student debt they don't know what to do about it.
And that's why there are a couple videos just talking about these student loan debt on this channel. Either they went to extremely expensive universities 50 60 $70,000 a year or they were just in school for so long possibly trying to avoid the terrible job market that they still got into two 300 even $500,000 worth of debt. It's really not surprising to me when I see a lot of these degrees having a negative ROI. We need to talk about what a master's degree is worth today, especially in light of all the confusion around graduate programs and professional programs. So, you can see the data behind me and the orange is a negative ROI, which 40% of all M's degrees deliver a negative financial ROI. The light blue is 0 to 250. Then you got 250 to 500, 500 to a million, and a million plus. But again, 40% of all master's degrees have a negative financial ROI for the person that took them out. Here's the crazy one. 60% of MBAs have a negative financial ROI for those that take them out. Now, MBAs are interesting, though, because the top 10% of MBAs have a 1 million plus lifetime earnings, but 60% are negative. So when you go to a top school, you might get a top result, but a lot of MBAs are online, different programs, they don't bring the money. And that's why I think a lot of people's opinions have changed over the past few years very quickly. Honestly, many were told by their teachers and parents that you had to go to a school university. While the tuition prices kept rising and rising, now people are stuck with the short end of the stick. And because of social media and everybody sharing their experiences, I've at least started to see a lot of people who are around that age, 17, 18, 19, trying to find different avenues and carve their own way in life. And in my opinion, I can't really blame them.
Less Americans than ever before think college is very important. Why? Because the math doesn't add up anymore. Tuition costs have skyrocketed while wages for graduates haven't kept pace. Students are walking out with six figures of debt for jobs that sometimes don't even require a degree. Meanwhile, people are seeing other paths, tech boot camps, trades, entrepreneurship that can pay off faster without the crushing loans. It's not that education doesn't matter. It's that the price tag on college in America is broken. And when nearly half the country is already struggling with rent or mortgage payments, taking tens of thousands of student loans just doesn't feel worth it. So when people say college isn't very important anymore, what they really mean it's not worth the cost.
And I really have to agree with that. Hopefully with the younger generation starting to change their opinions on going to college, that could mean that tuition starts getting a little bit cheaper in the future. But on the other hand, I see university after university building bigger and bigger football stadiums, spending hundreds of millions or billions of dollars on these huge compounds, just upgrading everything while simultaneously the tuition increases almost every year. So, I don't know. But when you have college kids at the campus knowing that a whole bunch of these degrees are useless, you know it's bad.
What major is completely useless in 2025?
Business. Probably art.
I have no idea.
I feel like all of them. I feel like college is kind of a scam.
Communication. What do you mean taking classes for communication? Everyone has communications.
I think foreign language.
Just use Dualingo, right?
Yeah. Basically like anything with technology.
Computer science for sure.
Why? Cuz AI AI.
Yes. AI is coming for all your jobs. Be ready to be poor, I guess.
Yeah. The computer science they're done for.
Yeah. They're they're done.
It's crazy to hear because 10 years ago, everybody was pushed to get a CS degree. Computers are the future, which still might be the case. However, AI are taking those jobs, not people. I've heard similar stories with very generic business degrees as well. When it becomes very oversaturated, it means a lot less to companies hiring and then you're kind of stuck in the same box as the CS majors. I didn't spend 4 years getting a degree so that I could now write people's names wrong on coffee cups. But here we are. I've applied to over 200 marketing jobs and I just don't know if there's room for me in that industry because right now I can't even get my foot in the door with an internship and my resume says that I'm a barista, a grocery shopper, a babysitter, a professional class action claimer in the claims app. I'm honestly not proud of where I am right now because I have a degree. I like to keep telling myself that it's building character, but honestly, I'm just tired. If you're also overqualified and underpaid, cheers, I guess.
Unfortunately, undergrad degrees are the new standard and aren't enough to separate you from the rest of everyone else. You have to get a master's or have exceptional work experience to get any sort of job. However, that could turn into people just constantly getting degrees, racking up even more student debt when there are not enough jobs to go around, and then you're in an even worse spot. I feel like I'm going to get attacked for this, but I think there is a thing as useless degrees. I generally do believe that some degrees are kind of useless and are just there just to be there. I feel like universities are so evil because they know people are not going to get jobs from these degrees or these courses that they're offering, but they're just offering it because I don't know why. Like, if I'm being honest, I don't think you need to study arts for you to be an artist. I would say honestly only go to university if you know you need university for you to do that job. like finance, IT, um, nursing, medicine,
and we have a comment that goes very well with what she was talking about. Fun fact, universities don't care what degree you choose as long as the check clears. So, we could definitely start talking about that as well. Of course, people are getting some crazy degrees that don't have many good careers to choose from, but some of the things you have to do just to get that piece of paper are pretty ridiculous.
I just had my advisor meeting and why is college such a scam? I sat there the whole time like, "This is so stupid. I'm literally done with all of my required courses, but I still need like 35 to graduate to get to the actual credit amount we need." But I'm literally just taking filler classes that are so stupid. I'm taking next semester, I think, three PE classes. Why are we paying so much money for me to play tennis, golf, and then yoga? That makes absolutely no sense. And I declared a random minor. I don't really care, but I want to graduate early and I am still. But why do I need to take stupid filler classes that are really not that important to be able to graduate? And I know all schools do this, but like why do universities need more money than they already have? And they don't even put that money towards something that's really important, like a new parking lot, per se.
Now, one of the comments that I thought was interesting from this post, girl, take the classes that look cool. Learning is fun. Sure, it could be fun. However, it's not free. a clip up on screen right now. This is what I did in class today as a college senior who's graduating in 2 months. This class cost $1,500. Now, imagine having to do this over and over again. Like the last clip, what she say, 32 credits. How much money are you wasting for things that legitimately don't matter. It is such a waste of time and money. But again, you have to do this to get that piece of paper. I literally took a walking class, bowling class, volleyball class, stretch and relaxation class in college in order to get enough credits to graduate. How much are all of those classes going to cost in the long run? Because most people have to take out student loans and some of those interest rates are pretty brutal. So, even the $1,500 class could be way more when you eventually pay it off in 10, 15, 20 years.
But we could go over to the apparent future of teaching in some of these schools as well. test hypothesis or obative data depending on the research objectives. Types of data collection methods. I truly caught the last chopper out of NAM graduating in 2019. I'd make a complaint. Seriously, is this part of the class? So glad I got my masters before the AI onslaught. The creator responds, "Believe it or not, this is supposed to be the lecture. You now have to stare at an AI JPEG with fake facial movements making it look like it's talking all while you're paying way too much money for these courses."
A realization I've had to come to terms with is that I went to school, worked full-time, and got a full 4-year bachelor's degree and it ain't do nothing for me. I feel like I just wasted my time. I feel like if you're not going to do anything like medical related or law or human resources and even then what's the point? What's the point?
You have a psychology degree. You need to get a master's and doctorate. Just going back to an earlier clip, just rack up the degrees and the student debt. That's what's going to fix this whole problem. What was the goal of the degree for you? The creator responds, I don't know. It doesn't even matter at this point. Oh man.
None of the kids currently going into college have four years to burn and they definitely don't have $108,000 which is the NCES estimate for the average cost.
The average four year degree is 108,000.
108,000. Um the kicker here is that most kids don't graduate in four years. They take five and a half at which point the cost increases to 156,000. Uh total all-in tuition, lost wages, and interest is well over half a million dollars. And that might be the average throughout the whole country, but we've seen examples with way more debt. People racking up three, four, $500,000 of student debt alone, not talking about the potential lost wages or the interest, how much they're actually going to pay at the end of the road. Learning about interest specifically is very important before you take out any of these loans. 30year-old people that I see having meltdowns on Facebook because they got a four-year degree. They've been paying off their student loans, doing the right thing, and they were never taught how interest works. And they got on 10 years after paying their student loans down for 10 years, and realized, "Oh, I've only paid off the interest, not the principal. I've only paid off the interest, and I still owe a a ridiculous amount of money." And they freak out. Like, these kids don't understand what the they're doing. And when you so a student loan is literally the government went to a college and said, "Hey, we're going to subsidize this, so they're never allowed to get out of this. They can't file bankruptcy. We're going to back it. It's 100% covered." It's the same thing they did with the housing market in 2008.
Yeah.
That led to catastrophe.
Yep.
So, if you are looking for a future potential career that does require a degree, I would try to make it as cheap as humanly possible. So, we're going to finish off this video with a little bit of advice.
I wish somebody would have told me to get my associates degree. I feel like most schools offer it, but a lot of students get pushed into the four-year degree. I know some high schools that have like a dual enrollment option where you can graduate from high school with your associates degree at the same time.
What's amazing is you don't even have to get your associate degree if you go to community college. You can just go and take classes and transfer them to your four-year. That's what I did. I took a bunch of engineering courses, took some core classes, and I ended up just transferring it to my four-year college. And it helped me a ton. I saved tons of money. I've never heard of somebody getting a associate degree right out of high school, but literally no one goes to community college. I don't know why. It's great.
It's because so many people want that college experience, moving away from your parents, being able to do really whatever you want. The party lives, going to football games, and you don't really get that while going to community college. But the trade-off is a mountain of debt. So, that's all I got for you guys today. Let me know what you guys think in the comments down below. YouTube thinks you'll like this video popping up on screen right now, but hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please leave a like and I'll talk to you guys.