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[dwarvenbeardspores]

at this point it's just kinda ridiculous, but I was on my way to the dentist today and was just sorta absently thinking like, "I wonder which negative track he'll take when I tell him I'm leaving imminently for library school?" I guessed correctly that he wasn't intimately familiar with the job market for librarians, but he sure did have a lot of opinions about how advanced degrees are useless and the worst dental assistants he'd ever had were the ones who went to school for it, etc. etc.

and it's like, dude. I get it, and I agree that academic elitism is bullshit and apprenticeships should be much more normalized/education should be more attainable, but I AM taking the best path for me right now, I CANNOT singlehandedly eschew the education requirements for my chosen field, I HAVE herd all of this before, and regardless of any of that I AM leaving in 6 days.

what u should be worried about, mr. dentist man, is why I was prepared for you to rain your negativity all over my carefully curated life plan, cause that's not the impression I think you want to be giving off.

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[pangodillo]

"advanced degrees are useless," said the dentist. is he a self-taught dentist? because presumably in the course of becoming a dentist he never once went to school.

[dwarvenbeardspores]

Lmao if I'm remembering correctly, he talks about his own schooling as something he bullshat his way through, so he presumably doesn't value that education so much. Which. That's so confidence-inspiring XD