re: If you could do it again, what would you study in college?

Big no. I sat in 3000 and 4000 level classes at LSU in ISDS in the early 2000s that were completely smoked by Microsoft and Cisco testing and real life. Not one mention of the OSI model. IT college stuff teaches you jack shite. Sitting in a 4000 level ISDS being asked to define the difference between a LAN, a MAN, and a WAN? I could have taught the class that in a day. Are you kidding? Total garbage.

Solve business problems. Don't apply service packs to MS SQL databases during the workday. Don't trust power cable labels that are to actually lead to the server or switch you're trying to unplug.

Please send me $100k for four years worth of bullshite education. Give me another six weeks, I can teach you the rest, if you care. Trash, and it's not just LSU, it's nearly all graduates, from any school. They have NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE DOING. Particularly about *enabling the business.* I really DGAF if you know Ruby on Rails, C#, etc., but if you're too obtuse (I tried to use a nice word) to notice that there are terabytes of data being sent to eastern european or russian sites every week, and think your priority is some random low level shite (can you install your own printers, can you change your wallpaper, etc.) then you deserve a plant help desk job where you pull on plastic sleeves when you head into the unit in August.

IT in college is worthless. Install ISDN/T1/DSL etc., for six months, troubleshoot basic networks for another six months, learn not how to be an a-hole, and you're golden.

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Big no. I sat in 3000 and 4000 level classes at LSU in ISDS in the early 2000s that were completely smoked by Microsoft and Cisco testing and real life. Not one mention of the OSI model. IT college stuff teaches you jack shite. Sitting in a 4000 level ISDS being asked to define the difference between a LAN, a MAN, and a WAN? I could have taught the class that in a day. Are you kidding? Total garbage.

Solve business problems. Don't apply service packs to MS SQL databases during the workday. Don't trust power cable labels that are to actually lead to the server or switch you're trying to unplug.

Please send me $100k for four years worth of bullshite education. Give me another six weeks, I can teach you the rest, if you care. Trash, and it's not just LSU, it's nearly all graduates, from any school. They have NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE DOING. Particularly about *enabling the business.* I really DGAF if you know Ruby on Rails, C#, etc., but if you're too obtuse (I tried to use a nice word) to notice that there are terabytes of data being sent to eastern european or russian sites every week, and think your priority is some random low level shite (can you install your own printers, can you change your wallpaper, etc.) then you deserve a plant help desk job where you pull on plastic sleeves when you head into the unit in August.

IT in college is worthless. Install ISDN/T1/DSL etc., for six months, troubleshoot basic networks for another six months, learn not how to be an a-hole, and you're golden

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This is true. There's nothing you will learn in college re: tech that is relevant. But you gotta have the degree anyway.

Writing and guitar. College was worthless as are most of the classes I took. I should’ve invested in more in depth understanding of my two favorite hobbies in undergrad and then got an MBA in night school while appreciating as an electrician or HVAC tech

Theology

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by OweO

I would be a neurologist.
I wouldn't want to be a surgent
and do surgeries or anything,

I would want to be on the research side of things, but the brain fascinates me. If I only had a brain

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Your post is weirdly perfect to the beat of “If I only had a brain”

Tacos and architecture

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Studied Aviation Management at La Tech. Worthless degree, even for an airline pilot. If I could do it all over, I'd still be doing the job I am today, but I'd have a Mechanical/Chemical Engineering degree

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that's me in reverse, got a CivE degree from LSU and wondered all of these years why didn't I do something easier, now that I'm at the end of the airline phase that degree has opened many doors for cushy retirement gigs

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Wish an adult would have told me I didn't need to waste my time on an aviation degree to be a pilot.

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I could have told you that but might not have qualified as an adult at the time

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Making 200k a year offshore

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The grass is always greener, but to me that doesn’t sound to bad.

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I didn't figure out the Air Force and UPT until it was too late. Who knows though, everyone thought majoring in aviation was a great idea.

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you done alright baw

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you done alright baw

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I won't ever get the chance to sit left seat in a Triple, but I'll make do.