This is a basic support group for people who went to WGU and are therefore now physically blacklisted from ever having a job in technology, or having ... (2024)

Nah, I'm glad you made it in spite of the degree though. It's a scam, sadly I fell for it.

Not my experience at all
Maybe if you went there and coasted and didn't learn anything, you won't ever get a job because, well, you don't know anything about what you went to school for

That's good

Likely still blacklisted, also which government jobs are you referring to

so no, you dont

It's just a weird question that I can't really answer, like that question is kind of weird

then leave it off your resume. theres no central database of what uni you attended

Leaving it off still blacklists you through resume filtering software though, there are roughly 3 categories: prestigious uni, regular uni, and WGU/SNHU/bootcamp/no degree. First and second category will be fine to get past the auto filtering software, third category is blacklisted. I'm not necessarily trying to fix the issue, I think it's kind of cool to be blacklisted so I think I'm ok with it

>he doesn't know

I’m fine with it rather that than sit next to some pink hair nose ring troon or have to smell pajeets curry BO for hours. You just need better skills anon

The school's model is fine with me if it weren't for the blacklisting

> another tired, drawn out “my degree isn’t getting me jobs” thread
Hey, anon. Welcome to the real world. You know how most people, including all the Abijeets, Pacos, and Jamals get their jobs? Through people they know. Especially the Abijeets. They get one person in any form of meager power, it’s over. Only Abijeets. Same goes for manual labor jobs. Paco and his friends exclusively get their other friends jobs in construction and actively try to sabotage whitey to get them out and another Siesta fricker in. Everything is setup so that YOUR CONNECTIONS get you places and that’s the simple way the world works. If you know, you know. You should have spent more time networking and making connections rather than simply getting a degree. It’s unfortunate that the world now works this way, but who am I to judge. I use it just like anyone else. Funnily enough, I was a TA at a type of school like this at one point. One of my students was exceptional and he and I hit it off immediately. He was a military vet (these schools prey on them for guaranteed GI bill payments). It was obvious to both of us that we were both speaking like someone from this basket weaving forum. I asked why the frick he was even in a school like this and he just wanted a paper degree, but he would do everything based on his abilities. That dude, who’s younger than me, is now a director of engineering. He got me my second job when I needed to get away from my imploding first job. I got my first job through playing WoW with the people I worked with as a TA (they played with people from their time at school that worked for my first real SE role).
> tl;dr
It’s literally who you know and nothing else. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

I don't know nobody, so i guess it is what it is

I guarantee you that if you fake your resume and put down have a decade or two decades of experience in your programming profession working for various companies that you would get a call back.

I can say the same thing about the university that I went to, University of Houston, I never got call backs for my application, I'm a teacher now though through a online certification programming and the poorest district needs several hundreds of new teachers every year and thats where work is for me.

You lack a great resume and experience and social connections. Try joining the coast guard or airforce or space force as an officer, it should only take you 6 months to get up to speed in fitness. and when you get vaccinated in the military always take n acetly cysteine to stop vax side effects for a few weeks prior and after the shot

Lying about professional work experience would just lead to it being found out, though

based

The absolute onslaught of poorly organized material that is D338 has given me a mental determination I didn't know I had, and then a day later broke that newly-gained determination. This course fricking sucks. I might even be ready to take the exam, but it's hard to tell when I have so little guidance to go off of. I should have done their cyber security bachelor's lmao, I'd have been done months ago. This cloud sh*t is hard. I'm so excited to rush through the cyber security master's. If it takes me longer than four months I will be embarrassed for real for real.
Okay my brain is fried, time for bed.

It's too easy

What degree, what job, and when?

Alrighty, I'll specify here because because I did WGU and a brick and mortar graduate degree:
Yes, it's possible to speedrun the CS degree at WGU in a single term (6 months). This isn't the standard, though. And yes, the degree program is not as rigorous as even a state school. Your final project for WGU is probably akin to a 1st/2nd year CS project. And probably not a final, at that.
IIRC the final project was learning how to use matplotlib and an existing data training library to make a predictive model with a subject matter of your choice. If you're a NEET like I was, a single term cost 4 grand and you can complete the degree between games.
Though it's worth noting that brick and mortar universities have the first TWO of your four years typically be irrelevant to your degree (I was originally going to get a math degree at a state school, but there were only ten math course requirements and the other 30 classes were all unrelated but would have cost me 30 grand to take).
If you could speedrun final exams at a brick and mortar university, it'd probably only take you about a year. A lot of the time on those is artificially inflated with general education requirements.
The actual utility of WGU isn't for when you're in your 30's and 40's looking to get your FIRST degree or to change professions. They do a bad job advertising it.
WGU is explicitly for the following:
>You are working for the government and need a degree to change pay grades
>You are 17-19 and fresh out of high school, because graduating high school in May and having a "four year degree" in December means you can get away with a gap year of entirely personal projects and then apply for work with a year of experience and an accredited degree at the age of 20 or go to Georgia Tech/UT Austin's online master's programs and complete both your undergrad and grad school by the age of 22 for less than the cost of one semester of on-campus living at a state uni.

That's real good for you but I'm 21 and physically ruined my life by getting my "degree" from WGU. it is an instant blacklist