Do you regret getting a compsci degree?
I regret not getting one.
>>108711456nope, started one in 2016, milked my pell grant money for the maximum amount of years, then stopped before finishing because I didn't need the degree to land a job.
no but i regret the school i got it at. provincial universities arent very desirable and i could only land a government job for my first. i upgraded companies from then and now im interviewing at apple
>>108711456not a degree but I went to a sorta-CS high school and I regret not doing more while I was over there, there was some kewl stuff being taught and I never bothered to learn any of it and now that I grew interested again I'm wasting time relearning it as a filthy h*bbyist, time I could be spending on actually making stuff
lol ya its all a waste. no one needs programmers and everyone has paused hiring. I am literally researching trades. its over. recommend me trades please.
>>108711577a.) you don't just do trades, this is a meme. no union will accept you without having gone to trade school for a few years and having done an apprenticeship first. if you think the current market for programmers is bad wait until you try trades.b.) by the time you figure it all out trades will be automated anyway, they keep making jokes saying trades can't be automated and robots can't climb ladders and all this but it's all just cope. I've seen robots flip burgers, wash dishes, clean bathrooms, perform karate, play basketball. screwing a light bulb in or running some wire and hitting it with a staple gun or screwing in a conduit isn't too difficult for a robot.
>>108711577Electrician.Also, thank god I got my accounting degree and I do a very niche accounting standard. No one wants to be accountant and no one wants to work in this standard.
I'm debating getting one right now with a few years of experience, but it really seems the worst possible time to start, seeing the current situation and all
>>108711456no, love cs and dont have too much debthowever nobody is hiring and ive yet to figure out what im going to waste the rest of my life doing. i like cooking i might just stick to that
honestly the only way I can think of to make it as a codecel these days is to work for a super small company that you've never heard of that does government/US military subcontracting>no remote workers (less competition, but only if you're willing to move)>no foreign workers (US citizens only)>no AI (Department of Defense doesn't trust it yet)pick C++ when grinding leetcode, also learn how to make your project from scratch with cmakesome companies do AWS stuff with .NET/C# instead, but that's a lot harder to learn just from online guides than it is to learn data structures/algorithms, easier to learn on the job than anything
>>108711577>>108711593Everything other than the absolute worst work is going to be impossible to get. In the future, the only jobs available will be shit shovelers and warehouse slaves.
>>108711456Man, I miss Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Absolutely. I graduated in 2026. The only thing tech adjacent I could land was help desk making 44k per year. Mid-tier school with internships and a 4.0 GPA. The school stopped placing people in tech. At least I graduated with 0 debt.
>>108711577Finish Studying Electronics and you have an ad hoc Mechatronics degree
>>108711456I regret that I took it when all the money grubbing normies came in. Good thing they're leaving. I want to be around autists who argue about time complexity not webshitters
>>108711456I dont have one. Still making six figures
>>108711456I regret studying physics. Its a scam don't do it.
>>108711456No, but I regret not spending more time at the beginning learning the nuts and bolts of C, and how toolchains worked in general. Spent too much time not learning because IDEs were hiding so much. Type in code and press the green button stunted my learning.
