ill be graduating in a year. i come from a no-name school that barely has any internships. i have to teach myself any of the actual skills i need. im seriously considering giving up and finishing the degree just because.say it fails. what trade should I learn? im thinking either firefighter or a military chaplain because i like helping people. electrician maybe sounds nice but i hate blue collar jobs because i used to be a cart pusher for a grocery store that treated me like shit. i can still feel the damage in my knees and now have permanent tan lines. id prefer jobs that have nice work-life balance so i can see my kids if i ever have any and that are always employable so i can fuck around and go travelling and still come back to a job.
LLMs have made CS degree basically useless if you aren't one of the 5% top computer programmers. All the entry and junior programmer jobs are being automated. Which is just as well because you shitters just got in the way and slowed everything down.
>>34583589What trade do you think you would enjoy?Also, don't get into construction trades, those are overhyped & they'll get oversaturated therefore not much good pay. I can guarantee you went into computer science because you believed you would make six figures. But with construction as a former apprentice myself, the future of the housing industry will become assembly-line produce from factories, low quality homes.
>>34583589If you're considering the military anyway, I would consider being an officer. Only requirement over just being enlisted is that you need a degree. Where it comes from and what it's in is basically irrelevant. The nice thing about being an officer is that you actually get money, and still get all your usual military benefits. I think the starting pay is around 60 or 70 grand with the potential to make about 200k. Plus after 20 years you can retire and they'll pay you your entire salary as a pension for the rest of your life, so you can be making 200k a year doing jack shit at 42 if you play your cards right. It's what I would've done if I didn't get medically DQ'd due to suicidal ideation.
>>34586966>Only requirement over just being enlisted is that you need a degreedo you actually believe that? you will be competing with other candidates that did ROTC and have STEM degrees with 4.0 GPAs and some might already be veterans. ive considered this route before but i think people make it out to be easier than it seems
>>34587146I do believe that because that is 90% of officers in the army, and no, you are not really competing with the 4.0 GPA types because those guys scored a six figure job in the civilian world straight out of college. At least give it a shot is what I'd say, if you have a degree, and you did OK on the ASVAB, they're not gonna turn you down from OCS.
>>34583684they're actually not now that claude code is more expensive than juniors
i am a vp of eng. cs degrees are still useful, as much as they were before. you learn more in 1 year of work than 4 years of school. programming is dead but software engineering lives and is more important now. find a job or some way you can use ai every single day. surround yourself with good people. seek them out
