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My Parent doesn't want me doing CS, or CE, because they feel the job market will disappear come 7 years. (lemmy.world)
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Basically Title.
I love CS, I love designing systems, programming, some cyber and math.
The problem is, I am due to admit into CS this year (4 year program). My Parent's will be funding a majority of it (~2 years, + RESP). And one of my parents, thinks CS won't have many jobs come 7 years?
Why? Because AI will take them all (or is more likely to take them all). That AI is expanding at a rapid pace, and they will slowly but surely take the hardware designing jobs, the programming jobs, and pretty much all the jobs except the administration ones. I have a poor time putting into words what I would like to do in the future (cause I love lots of things related to CS) but I say thing a bit on the technical side, and this parent says that if I cant explain it to them than I don't understand it and that they understand (more to me) what will happen to the market due to their age

I am not saying they're wrong to any of this by the way, I'm just looking for advice on if they're right, and if not, why?

I don't think I'll ever give up doing CS because its something I love with all my heart.
But if I'm not able to convince them, they want me to take a gap and get a different degree (in a less likely to be taken job).
I might be rambling here, but I am genuinely soooo lost.

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I wish people would stop treating college like job training. Study what you're most passionate about and interested in. Study whatever you would not regret studying, even if you never got a job related to that thing. Without "networking" I do think it will be very hard to find your first job related to CS for the foreseeable future (it's been like that before as well).

[–] charokol@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It would be nice to live in a world where most people’s entire quality of life wasn’t dependent on the job they get out of college

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

While in college, you can network to get roles that may be tangential or completely unrelated to your degree. Can also minor in something else or dual-major. I've worked with software engineers that majored in physics/aerospace, electrical engineering, philosophy, and one person who didn't even go to college at all. I've also seen software engineering majors that got jobs in sales, business, and one who decided to quit the industry and run a nail salon.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

100k students loans for Americans kills the passion.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Unless you live somewhere college is cheap or free this is kinda just how it is. Or maybe it doesn't matter if more people stumble into generational wealth I guess.