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I just finished my CS Bachelors and overall most of it felt like a massive fucking waste of time, especially since I suck at learning from lectures and also the content was like 15 years out of date. For the few classes that actually seemed worthwhile and interesting, I'm trying to figure out who the fuck is hiring for these skills that's not military-adjacent. I did end up earning some Masters credits through a fast track program, but I don't think it's worth continuing at this point.
You can generally use CS as a springboard into most tech related fields. Where its most helpful is probably research and academia.
If programming is even remotely interesting for you, getting a low paying junior dev job will probably teach you more and you can use that as a springboard into more software dev, data, AI, cybersecurity, networking... As long as you are willing to learn on the job and push yourself forward.
I'm legit interested, not trying to be rude -- where I can I find a low paying junior dev job??
It seems like the only places hiring are looking for Senor devs or Project leads, AI evaporated all the entry level positions.
In the US, the only places I’ve seen that are both interviewing and hiring entry level are the new grad rotational programs at the bigger companies in finance, healthcare, and logistics. Fair warning, the tech stack is a hit or a miss in those kinds of industries, heavily team dependent
Smaller companies usually. They may call it something else than junior developer.
Field Technician, Software Engineer, Field Engineer are all titles at my job and 75% of their work is coding, scripting, or configuration but we have few quality applicants because of bad titles.
All I can add is that I worked IT for 9 years getting shit pay. Despite the fact that I spent most of my day writing code, nobody willing to hire me as a developer with an appropriate salary.
I got my degree by going to school at night after my day job. Within 3 months, I had doubled my salary with a 'real' developer job. I made more progress in 3 months than I did in 9 years at being able to support myself.
And no I don't use anything I learned at UNI. I knew how to write code.