Custom error message for stack overflow in C++

[Spongebob]

Well, I think I am competent enough to have a job. And even if I am not, I don't think university will make me competent. They did not teach me how to change a lightbulb in our electrical engineering classes, so they also will not teach me useful things in our programming classes.

College isn't about making people competent; it's about educating you in a field of knowledge so that you at least know something before you go to work and find out you really know very little.  You will learn more in the first year at a good job than 4 years of university.  However, in a lot of fields, you won't ever get that chance if you don't have a degree.  That's just how it is.

Electrical Engineering isn't building maintenance.  If you learned basic electrical theory (Ohms law and such) and enough digital logic to write programs, then you did learn useful knowledge.  You could learn those things on your own as well, but its more difficult to convince a potential employer that you have knowledge.  And few people have the drive and intellect to educate themselves in difficult fields of study.  If you plan to be an entrepreneur and build something entirely new and creative, then a diploma is just a piece of paper, but without the basic knowledge you just won't get very far unless you have a very high intellect and some original ideas.