not sure if this applies to you directly, but here's my 2¢:
1. a lot of people fall for the meme and drink the koolaid that if you spend 6+ years doing nothing more than studying then BOOM, you'll graduate and companies will just blindly start throwing money at your face. surprise surprise, it doesn't work like that.
2. people should follow their passion and everything but they should also at least keep an eye on the market.
3. students (not universities) should really start considering an university course unfinished without some kind of internship. if you manage to get an internship in a company that uses the tech you're interested into (in your case, gis) you can either realize you don't like it that much or understand what the direction for your studies need to be in order to be more proficient. (applying for internships is sampling the market, btw)
4. specialists are only needed up to a certain points. in most situations a good generalists can learn enough to get the ball rolling and bring home results. see like an 80-20 pareto principle or something like that. btw, a good generalist can surpass a specialist over time.
> I blame the internet and the accessibility of knowledge to the point where people can go "IDK WTF this is, but lemme google it".
the people you complain about probably can already do a lot of other useful stuff, to the point they can just "lemme google it".
not sure if this applies to you directly, but here's my 2¢:
1. a lot of people fall for the meme and drink the koolaid that if you spend 6+ years doing nothing more than studying then BOOM, you'll graduate and companies will just blindly start throwing money at your face. surprise surprise, it doesn't work like that.
2. people should follow their passion and everything but they should also at least keep an eye on the market.
3. students (not universities) should really start considering an university course unfinished without some kind of internship. if you manage to get an internship in a company that uses the tech you're interested into (in your case, gis) you can either realize you don't like it that much or understand what the direction for your studies need to be in order to be more proficient. (applying for internships is sampling the market, btw)
4. specialists are only needed up to a certain points. in most situations a good generalists can learn enough to get the ball rolling and bring home results. see like an 80-20 pareto principle or something like that. btw, a good generalist can surpass a specialist over time.
> I blame the internet and the accessibility of knowledge to the point where people can go "IDK WTF this is, but lemme google it".
the people you complain about probably can already do a lot of other useful stuff, to the point they can just "lemme google it".