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The original was posted on /r/armenia by /u/Middle-Support-7697 on 2024-10-21 10:40:47+00:00.

I am an Armenian who currently studies at a selective university abroad as an international student, my major is Electrical Engineering. The issue is that a lot of the time when I am back home and I tell people what I study they try convincing me that it isn’t a career worth pursuing. I swear, half of people think I am some low level electrician. It is so frustrating to put all this effort to study one of the most impactful and difficult majors, with intentions of bettering my country, just to later be so blatantly disrespected by some ignorant people who never in their life met a proper engineer.

I understand that the reason of this is the lack of development in a respective field, but I don’t think it explains my dad literally lying to his friends and telling them that I am a programmer just so they don’t “laugh at my major”.

I actually think this ignorance is a serious issue which prevents our country from becoming as powerful and prosperous as it could otherwise be.