I am a 25 year old man basically starting as a freshman in computer science. By the time I graduate in 2029 as a 28-29 year old man, I will probably have no internships, no projects, and AI will be so good that SWE will be completely dead. Then I will have a useless degree, an unemployment gap, be forced to back to school, graduate in my 30s with a new degree and then face age discrimination and then work at McDonald's for the rest of my life. Is this about right?
>>107509383good morning demoralization pajeet sir
>>107509383You deserve to fail not because of your story but because you're a demoralization faggot. Hope your existence is hell
>>107509383McDonalds will also be taken over by AI by then. You’ll have to sign up for a government babysitting fake job, since that will be the only shit remaining.
>>107509383Ahh you know McDonalds ain't too bad. It's the no friends or girlfriends that sucks more. I worked there for years applying for jobs. Good times.
>>107509383McDonalds won't hire you if you have a degree
>>107509383try to find a way to get enrolled in a math/physics program
>>107509383lol unc your cookedprobably bald, fat, and never saw pussy ever hahaha
>>107509383You're going to fail because you think like a failure. And yes, you're right, there will probably be more qualified young people than you in the job market.
>>107509383What did you do before? By 29 I had like 7 years of experience. Think about what do you actually want to do(that pays money). And remember that you dont need a degree/education/father's approval to work
Why bother with that shit, just get a cushy union job
>>107509383>AI will be so good that SWE will be completely deadIf you are a good programmer, you won't have a problem. If you aren't a good programmer, don't fucking do compsci
>>107511457Holy copium ai has progressed this much in the span of two years imagine 10 years programming out of all things is deader than jfk
I'm applying to Georgia Tech OMSCS program soonI really need to get inwtf do I do bros
>>107511500Study biomedical engineering and make man made horrors beyond comprehension
>>107511512wetware computers coming soon to a terminal near you
>>107509383learn to plumb
>>107509580>physicsHoly shit the absolute worst advice you can give. Physics grads have always had an even worse market than CS grads are having right now. It’s one of the worst possible degrees in terms of employment.t. Actually former physicist
>>107511569Theres still no glow in the dark plants thats a thing right there
>>107511672chemistry is worse, somehow>t. knower
>>107509383Get engineering degree that relies on simulations and shitWhich one is up to you. Materials science, mechanical engineering or whatever.You'll end up doing the computer shit you love but your degree will be actually fucking useful and you can also do a proper PhD if you will
>>107511775It wont be long before solidworks has an ai plugin boyo
>>107511748> chemistry is worse, somehowThat's because chemistry is just physics for people who are even worse at math than physicists.t. Guy who jumped ship from bio-physics after undergrad and did grad school in EE for signal processing/control theory instead.
>>107511786> solidworksWhat kind of excel monkey do you take me for?
>>107511805how'd you go from chemistry to EE grad school
>>107509383Why not just switch to any other engineering program? You didn't get filtered by diffEq, did you?t. almost the same boat but EE
>do engineering >do thisI just want a comfy six figure job.
>>107509383if AI becomes as good as you say by then there will be few jobs that can't be automated. You'll have much bigger problems to worry about at that point so why care?
>>107511814It doesnt matter. Hey solid works make me a washing machine thats 4 cubic feet. Something like that.
Seriously why are there so many old people on here? I always thought that most of the posters here would be between the ages of 18-21. I'm 19 and if I saw myself posting past the age of 21 I would kys myself so I can't imagine all these grown ass adults in their mid 20s and 30s using this website and feeling okay about it.
>>1075122914chan is just an old folks home younger gens use other social media
>>107512291This website isn't for anybody. Seeing someone as young as you (assuming you aren't yanking my jimmies) posting here feels just as bizarre as the terminally online xillennials who have been here long before I ever came here (late 2013) and won't ever ever ever fuck off. I simultaneously feel way too old and young to be here.t. Late 90s zoomer
>>107511940I live in a third-world country (Peru) and I'm one semester away from getting my EE degree. As far as I know, the only people in my degree program who got a comfy office job are the ones who either went to the dark side and got into management or got into software development (usually webdev faggotry). The rest of them ended up getting industrial/electrical maintenance and installation jobs.I know that EE pays well in places like the Netherlands and South Korea, but is there really a point to getting into EE if you live in an infab (involuntarily fabless) country?If I'd known 4 years ago my job prospects here would be to either do electrician-like work, fix phones for Stacies, or do webdev shit, I woulda probably just gotten an AssD (TSU - técnico superior universitario, as they call it here) in Industrial Electricity and then just learned some Kotlin and React on the side instead of wasting my time learning Fooreeay transforms and the internals of an op-amp.
>>107509383I did a physics degree took my sweet time for it and got my master at 30 zero job experience my CV was literally 3 lines. You still get interviews most don't ask the obvious question or are satisfied if I just explain that I had personal things to cover. Got my first job after graduation in Sep. its not that bad and wage wise its just the normal starting one.
Technology?
>>107511748>>107511672US? Physicists and Chemists are doing fine in Europe. Its not good but not as bad as 400 application bullshit.
>>107509383then just learn AI ?why do you create your own problems ?
>>107509383>no projectsThats your fault and it can cause you to failOf all the career paths you could have chosen, why go with something you are not interested in and not going to play around with in your free time. The time to start or work on a project if you aren't already working on something was yesterday, or the day before yesterday, or like, a month ago. If you can't do that, then you're going to have a rough time, especially since you're stepping onto the field at such a late stage in your life.Maybe you don't know what you want to do, thats fine, but you should be exploring what you can do and what you think you'll enjoy. Maybe take on an IoT project, grab a $8 arduino and choose either arduino IDE or micropython. Or install apache and build a web server. Or snag a cheap used cisco router (or any other big brand manufacturer like juniper, palo alto, check point, fortinet, etc) and play around with networking. Or install unity or some other game engine and make a game. The world is your oyster and the only person stopping you from doing any of this is you and your lack of motivation and enthusiasm.>inb4 employers dont carewrong.Both my current boss and my manager told me after the interview stage they thought the personal project section showed dedication and my enthusiasm in the field. At the company meetup (Im 100% remote) I had a coworker tell me to pull out my phone and show another coworker what I had running in my personal time because he thought it was insanely cool, and he even asked me why I don't ever bring it up in personal conversation.just do something. anything.
>>107513892>a guy gave me a fake compliment on my project to be nice and I'm so easy to manipulate that I'll write an essay about this passing remark and passively insult OP b calling him a lazy geriatric instead of offering actual advice to OP Nice humblebrag but you're a mentally stunted passive aggressive bootcamp tranny.
>>107512291COVID took 5-7 years and counting off zoomers lives
>>107513842Meaningless statement>>107513892>Maybe you don't know what you want to do, thats fine, but you should be exploring what you can do and what you think you'll enjoy.Why do you think so many people lose this sense of direction once they stop education
>>107511672I am a physics grad in Europe and I had no problem getting a run of the mill CS job. (I can actually code though)
>>107512291I'm actually more impressed that there are people like you. Image boards are really old-fashioned internet places.
>>107512291>if I saw myself posting past the age of 21 I would kys myself I hope you screenshot your post to reflect on it in 3 years mate, and then again in 10 yearswhere do you think you will go to shitpost anonymously?
>>107513760What kind of job?
>>107513760a bit of hopium, you better not be baiting
>>107509383In 2040 you will 40 years old
>>107509383I'm confused. Do people really not work until 29? What do they do before that? How do they get by?
>>107515199technician helped that I already setup a electron microscope once at uni.
>>107509383>Please feel sorry for me and my imaginary scenario, here pepeFuck you.
>>107512291Fuck off to discords, zoomoid. 4chinz is a boomer website.
>>107515383this is /g/ did you somehow forget the whole crypto thing that exists
>>107509383Considering that GitHub was such a massive failure at automating SWE that Microsoft had to repurpose it as a generic ChatGPT alternative, I don't think AI is coming for programming jobs any time soon.
>>107517416Sorry, I meant Copilot, not GitHub.
>>107515383Did you not work during college?
>>107512291You'll still be posting here in 5 years.I posted here 5 years ago, when I was 19.
>>107515383neetcels leeching off of their parents
>>107517416>I don't think AI is coming for programming jobs any time soon.No, but companies will try it anyway. Just look at the clusterfuck that is Windows 11 now that "30% of Microsoft code" is AI generated
>>107509383Why do you think you will have no projects and no internships?
>>107517430copilot may suck but the competitors are all quite good. Its not going to replace it but definitively take a huge chunk of the work.
>>107517587I did work in my last year. But I mean, I finished my undergraduate degree when I was 23. Let's say another two years for a master's. If you only start at 25, what did you do before for about 7 years?>>107517633I’m kinda envious, though.
>>107509383Anything is better than being a 30yo NEET with no degree or job experience.Just the other day on /fit/ there was a 35 yo guy married with kids and a 6 fig job that was in a similar position to you at 26
I started college last year at 25. I'm 26 now thinking of studying and working, both full time. that way I can have both a degree AND job experience by 30 that way I get get a real job and finally catch up with people my age. can I do that? I want to catch up so that I will be like everyone else my age so I can no longer be left behind. I want to get married and have kids by 30 too so that's A LOT to do in just 4 years and if anything doesn't go the way I want I will kill myself in front of my mom.
>>107513760starting wage at 30 is not enough. you need to be earning more because of your age alone. you don't pay a 30 year the same you pay an 18 year old. it's retarded.
>>107509383If you don't get a job, just remember to google "Hindu temples near me" before you go postal. It's not "jeets", it's not "all browns", it's very specifically Indian Hindu rape rats who infest and destroy civilization all over the world.
