As far as thinking, isn’t college a lot harder than thinking at your job?

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Originally Posted by Berteau

I remember in college, classes were hard and required a lot of hard work, memorization, studying, problem solving, etc. Especially math classes, science classes, and many others. I was an average student and always felt behind many of the brighter students.

Now I work and while it obviously requires me to think a lot, it’s not nearly as hard as college courses were. I work with people who I know made much better grades than me or went to better colleges, but I don’t feel they are any smarter or have a leg up on me like in college. I don’t struggle like I did in college. Mostly n cause I think experience trumps everything. If a smarter person learns something a little faster, it really doesn’t matter because my experience will get me there anyways. Or what we are learning doesn’t require you to be super smart. Anyone agree?

Sadly, it sounds like the OP you are in one of those professions that get carried by other underpaid people who have it much harder at work.

Majority of difficult careers don't pay as well as professions that are much easier than college. Take most banking positions. There are nothing left to do for most bankers except to review policies and have their software IT folks carry the heavy lifting work.

As I long time IT consultant, I have seen business workers perform less and less work as technology has replaced many functions that bankers used to do even decision making. You have tons of math grads use software to make risk analysis and provide financial decisions with just a few clicks of a button.

Sure many technology folks are well paid but at the end of the day it's peanuts vs what many business finance workers make doing next to nothing but review emails.

I've seen wealthy banks create tons of BS bank jobs while cutting technology jobs once they've abused and used up those tech workers and hire a bunch of do nothing analysts. Many business grads that got hired at large banks giggled about having nothing to do while the tech workers around them are running around like their heads got got off.

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Oh hell yeah!!! I was an engineering major so my coursework was 100 times more complex then the work I do at my job. I've had to design a few things by hand via calculator and text book equations but honestly 90% of my job is drafting. Also, all the formulas that I use are over simplified versions of what I learned in college so that they can be used by pretty much anyone with half a brain.