• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    So uh… I had to look up the term ‘CJ Degree.’

    … Criminal Justice.

    As in… learn ‘industry practices’ to be qualified as a corrections officer (jail/prison guard), private detective, cop, paralegal, etc.

    The first thing that came up was a particular college’s course overview and goals checklist… one of the goals was …

    Attend a financial literacy workshop.

    So not only is this person a moron, not only is this person in all likelihood a prison guard, not only did they go to college to become a prison guard, they shouldn’t have even graduated with their degree.

    As a person from a white trash neighborhood, who got real degrees, first in the family to go to college… I have not gotten white trash vibes this strong in quite a long time.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately there’s a lot of criminal justice jobs that only require a two year technical degree. Depending on location and school it’s likely that it was “check the boxes” kind of program for a field that is understaffed.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, the prison-industrial-degree mill complex.

        Love it.

        Fucks over everyone, in so many ways.

        … A good portion of the families I grew up next to just actually had half of their family as criminals, in prison, usually for consistent DUIs or drug charges and domestic abuae…

        … and the other half were prison/jail guards/staff.

        Thats what I mean by ‘white trash.’

        People that unironically described themselves as ‘wiggers’ back in the 00s.