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For sure, I agree that mathematicians in my experience have been significantly less annoying than the other male dominated STEM majors but still annoying since some of them had an intelligence superiority complex for studying maths over CS/eng. Also tbh there was still a lot of issues with hygiene and misogyny with lots of the math students I met, and given that I'm still dealing with those issues in the professional workplace of fully grown adult software engineers, I'd like to avoid that for the rest of my life after I leave the industry
I studied undergrad CS at a school with very rigorous maths/cs and engineering
might i ask why you intend to leave the tech industry, and what you plan on doing after that?
I just don't enjoy software engineering as a job anymore
I plan on restarting my life from scratch. No goals, just seeing where life takes me. If I ever run out of money I'll just lie on my resume (which I'm great at) and get back into tech
Similar boat. CS jobs were imploding and it seemed like the job itself was getting shittier and more tied up in reactionary politics over time so I moved back home and saved up to go back to school. Now I'm doing CivE so I can be the train man.