The empty promises of hiring

Let me try and set this up.

When you go into an advanced education setting, the general promise or equation therein is “You will spend money, but you will get new knowledge that will make you more attractive to the job market.”

Now, you can argue with that statement and say the end goal is NOT the job market, and maybe you’re right. Maybe people just want to learn data analytics to, well, learn data analytics. But by and large the idea is to make yourself more employer-friendly, if we’re being real. No one goes into debt with no promise on the back-end, in the most general terms.

But then what happens a lot when you get that new degree or that new knowledge?

Those who can hire you only want to know the bullet points you’ve already, exactly done.

Seems like you just got sold a raw bag of onions.

My story on this

I went to graduate school in 2012 for organizational development. Broadly-speaking, it was a terrible idea.

I think about how dumb it was all the time. I was 32 or so, and I surrounded myself with 22–23 year-olds, which was a challenge. I had mostly worked in writing and marketing beforehand, and now I was trying to essentially do HR, and every time I had an interview, some interviewer was like “OK…