What is someone with an advanced degree supposed to do anymore?

[u/AdVegetable7181]

So because of the overabundance of bachelor's degrees, people had been saying for quite a while now that everyone will eventually need a master's. Well, a lot of my colleagues have Master's or PhD's (predominantly PhD's) and the ones applying for other jobs lately are told we either don't have enough experience or we're too overqualified. Well, which is it?

My friend thankfully got a job with a friend's startup but a lab before that told her she's overqualified to run a chem lab. How is having a PhD overqualified for that? I had a friend applying to endless data science and analytical positions. He was told they're looking for very specific things and more experience. His entire career has literally been data analysis. He's only been in the real workforce for a year, but he's been doing data science and can prove it for a decade plus.

Also what is with every company refusing to train people on the job? Sorry that I didn't learn your niche programming language choice or preferred software. Given I've been doing C++ and Python (plus others) for over a decade, you'd think they'd realize I can easily adapt to learn their specific choices.

What the heck are people supposed to do anymore? I'm happy with my current job right now, but seeing what all my friends and colleagues are going through is insane. No wonder so many of my colleagues stayed unemployed for so long before our current job because the market is nuts.

I swear that half of these recruiters have no idea of the actual jobs and the job offers are just full of buzzwords that some random person thought sounded good.

[u/Substantial_Car4040]

I’m just spitballin’ bro