Today, my friend Kate and I were helping build a playground. Halfway through, a construction worker asked where we go to school. I told him we graduated and proudly held degrees in Psych. The construction worker stopped mid-dig, glanced at us sadly, and said, "Yeah, that's what my degree is in too." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a customer at the fast-food joint I work at gave me a pitying look and asked, "How's that liberal arts degree treating ya?" FML
Today, I recently graduated from high school and I went to a college party. I met these girls and told them I graduated college already, to sound cool. I then heard one of them say, "I went to middle school with you, and I was in your math class." FML
Today, I was sent to an elementary school for safety day. One of the dads was asking about my job, when I told him about the long hours and high stress involved. He turned to his son and said, "Now see why you stay in school?" I'm a paramedic. With a bachelor's degree. FML
Today, after over 30 years, I visited my home country. My nephew was driving us around, with my daughter in the backseat, and I was proudly telling him about her MBA in English and Communication. We passed by a mugging, and she went, "Did you just seed what I just sawed!?" Without looking at me, my nephew just went, "....a degree in what again?" FML
Today, I bumped into a former teacher, one who spent many many weeks helping me get into university so I could become a psychologist. I had to see the look of disappointment on her face when I told her I got pregnant freshman year, and became a stay at home mom with a part time job at Tesco’s. FML
Today, I was talking to one of my supervisors at my new job. He asked if I knew a professor at the school I recently graduated from, and I decided to babble on about how shitty of a professor he was and how much I loathed his class. He then looked at me and said, "That's my dad." FML
Today, I was walking with a friend to tell him how excited I was for college and even motivating him to apply for the same school, until I found out later that I got rejected. FML
Today, I lost my job to a girl that graduated with the same bachelor's degree from the same college as me. She also got a master's in an unrelated field. I've been working there 7 months, and her master's in maths apparently makes her a better athletic trainer than me. FML
Today, it's the third time this year I was recommended to meet someone because we're "so smart, we'll get along." At dinner, this person complimented how I'd do great in their graduate course on data science. I helped develop the degree program. I can't believe I missed pinball for this. FML
Today, I was volunteering at a school, as I walked past the swings these two girls smiled and said "wow, you are so pretty!". I smiled back and said "awww, well thank you!." As I walked past I hear them laughing, "she actually believed us." FML
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FrostyNorth 0
Unless you're going beyond a four-year degree, psych is useless. This shouldn't surprise you as more psych degrees are handed out than any other concentration last time I checked.
Jennika 0
You have to be willing to move where the job is. If you aren't willing to move, then yeah..you might end up there. I knew astrophys' and microbiologists working in an inking factory because they couldn't find jobs in the area.
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staywhatyouare 0
@139, thank you for understanding my point. Glad to see someone here has reading comprehension skills; @Rutero I'm not saying that there aren't a lot of people with psych majors that just **** around and do it as an "easy out". Because they definitely exist. I am saying that an intelligent motivated person with a psych degree will be just as successful and possibly even more useful to society than say an intelligent business major etc.
phluffmuffin 0
I heard this joke before. Except instead of a construction worker it was a Janitor. The best FMLs are the ones that rip off old jokes!
cough 0
My college degree is pretty useless as well without further school. They should really put warnings on those things :D
MechEngineer 0
A bachelors in psyche (or business ) Is only good for getting into law school. Ive met many psyche and business majors, and the level of stupidity and sheer incoherence in thought is good enough to be a lawyer.
i_luv_puppies 1
What college do you go to where 3.5 is low??? Even if you were a extremely intelligent to the point where you DO have a GPA that high, you would realize that you worked your ass off for it and it was no easy task. You sound as if you breeze through your classes. I have no choice but to conclude that you either have a bullshit major or you go to a bullshit no name college. Don't say name has nothing to do with it, names carry weight for a reason.
regalarius 0
OP, I read that and almost started crying. I'm a sap though. I'll agree, though, that with a major like that you want as powerful a degree as you can get.
calamito 0
Psych is never a great degree - you can't do much with it. You have to really be dedicated and go far for it to matter.
gratedjuice 0
psych=useless degree that every college offers to trick morons into wasting money there.
gradstdnt09 0
I hear ya...I had my degree in psych and I didn't find crap for a job. I just graduated yesterday with a Master's Degree in Social Work and I don't want to be a social worker anymore. FML.
aroeder62 0
Whatever. Just get a PhD. That guy probably just couldn't get one, him resulting in being a construction worker.