Kinda glad I took the community college IT/infra route when I went back to school a little bit ago, but still scared for the future lol.
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Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates
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The one and only time I took compsci at a junior college just taught the basics of Office
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I'm glad I never took it. Been employed in the field for thirty years.
Hearing advice on how to get into software dev made me I realise really don't have enough passion for it. And given that its hyper competitive historically speaking, decided to move the adjacent job (that being a data analyst). Enjoying it so far. Now I just use my programming skills to just make cute little projects on my laptop, and of course a little bit for the data analyst stuff but.
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