hi. i cannot for the life of me decide what major ill be studying makes sense as i cannot go to college right now. so my idea was that i could study something related to the general field of what i would like to study but i cant determine that either.context:- serving in the us military- graduated top of my class defense language institute for chinese. supposed to be a very hard school- brother tested 139 iq. dont know my own. understandable if regression to the mean applies- cannot make use of my educational benefits right now but i have a lot of free time right now- minimal hobbies really. i spend a lot of my free time sitting in boredom, often times annoying others just out of sheer boredom.- i know from coaching others during my chinese course that i have an unfathomably long attention spani did three months of computer science before i joined the military. wouldve decided on that if the field didnt die but of course it is basically dying for newbies right now. understandable.so my pivot has been to the engineering field in general, so i was thinking i can study math before when i am able to use my educational benefits but i am very unsure of that now too.i do understand anything i choose will be me just gambling on job marketability years from now but i would like to minimize the risk.if only considering my personal interests, computer science scores sky high.
regarding the computer science part I don't have exposure to a lot of fields other than that though.I liked the concepts in my aircrew fundamentals class but I do acknowledge that class was just a watered down slop version of aviation engineering.
Software is fucked for the foreseeable future. You could always take community college general education credits for a couple years when you're out of the armed forces, and really take time to talk to working men in various fields you think are cool to see what their job is actually like.
I'd start with getting a solid foundation in math. If you hate it you'll know to choose softer sciences or do eng tech rather than engineering. Programming is still a useful skill to have. You cant train your ai to edit if you don't know how to read what it did or what your code is doing. Also google one of those career quizzes unis have to help you find what you're geared towards and good at and search actually professions you see yourself doing. Saying you're interested in CS is like saying you're interesting in cooking. So what.
Have you heard of linguistics? It's the scientific study of languages but has nothing to do with language learning. It uses math, even frontier of math research level math if you want to go that far, skim over the arxiv paper "Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge"
>>35016478also linguistics is related to the beginning of computer science. Read chapter 1 of Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Sipser.
Medicine or electrical engineering.
