You know how once upon a time (like, five minutes ago), everyone thought that the pinnacle of achievement was slogging through four years of college? Ah, yes—the golden ticket. The magic scroll. The ultimate badge of “Look Ma, I’m employable!”
Well, brace yourself, because that era is fading faster than your neighbour’s Facebook posts about their perfect kids.
Let’s be honest: unless you’re studying the timeless wonders of gravity, human stupidity, or the physics behind why your toast always lands butter side down, that shiny degree is basically an overpriced souvenir.
Think about it—four whole years dedicated to learning something that might be irrelevant by the time you toss your graduation cap in the air. Because, in case you haven’t noticed, the world isn’t politely waiting for your syllabus to catch up.
In today’s reality, skills have a shelf life shorter than a ripe avocado. Artificial intelligence is out here gobbling up jobs with a polite beep and a smug little algorithm while you’re still trying to format your dissertation references correctly.
By the time you spend four years memorizing theories and fighting off existential dread in the library basement, AI has already turned your future job into an app. And it doesn’t need bathroom breaks or motivational quotes. It just gets it done—cheaper, faster, and without asking for a raise.
So if you’re still proudly introducing yourself as “I’m a graduate in [insert soon-to-be-obsolete major here],” maybe consider this your gentle nudge: the future does not care. It’s not impressed by your framed degree. It only wants to know—can you keep learning? Can you unlearn and relearn, again and again?
Because the real flex isn’t your degree anymore. It’s your ability to say:
“Sure, I studied that, but look—now I’ve learned this too.”
Clinging to what you once studied is like hugging your old flip phone and insisting it’s still good enough. Meanwhile, everyone else is tapping away on sleek devices that didn’t even exist when you started your course.
So here’s the punchline: the only truly evergreen skill is your willingness to keep moving. To reinvent yourself. To stop introducing yourself by what you studied and start introducing yourself by what you’re learning right now.
After all, change isn’t coming. It’s already here. And it brought snacks.
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