Is Computer Science a good degree to get at uni? Is there a better tech degree I should be pursuing instead?

Is Computer Science a good degree to get at uni? Is there a better tech degree I should be pursuing instead?

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No. Almost everyone wants to be a "Computer Engineer or a Software Engineer". They are like sand. You can find sand everywhere.

Study a trade and you'll be well of with that if you have the brains to get it to a level where you can earn up to 6 figures.

Medicine. Anything computer related will be automated.
I'm a pharmacist femanon, btw :3

mathfags will look down on you

engineerfags will envy you

as basic education it's okay I guess

The Medicine field is already being phased out due to automation.

Litterally over saturated thanks to politics wanting another tech pop.

>Anything computer related will be automated.
Just ask yourself "By whom?"
No, sweety, everything computer related will be automated last.

You can't automate diagnoze.

You should go for actuarial science if you want to make money and kill yourself.

Yup, or computer, but electrical is just more broad

Hah, as an EE i dont envy them at all

> as an EE i dont envy them at all
then you're really dumb

a CS major that's not a fuckup can have his entire life figured out by 25: good middle class house, nice car, Sr. Software Engineer title
needless to say to women that kind of shit is irresistible

Not science

Seems accurate, except if you get a proper CS degree which is literally maths.

Such as?
>physics
Physicsfags are the worst, literally.

Because you lack the intelligence to understand their superiority.

They've already started though

Nigga, not ACTUAL science.. ACTUARIAL SCIENCE.

o-oh

Yet for some reason the amount of graduates and employees in those areas has remained constant for 47 years.

If you're not at a shit tier uni, you get internships, and do side projects, CS will literally make your life fantastic. If you can't do two of those, study a trade.

That's exactly what you can do. You can automate nearly everything in the long run.

Bioinformatics if you want something interesing and enjoyable

You can say it about a sailors too, "miners from oil rigs" (don't know how to name it in english properly) can actually do that after two months of work.

Sailors? They get paid jack shit and are from third world countries. Marine engineering officers make decent money.
Oil rig workers make decent money as well.
I'm not really sure what that guy is on about, as any non-meme education will make it possible to buy a house and a decent car right off the bat basically. At least where I live.

payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Electrical_Engineer/Salary

Am I missing something? The pay seems alright, but nothing fantastic, I figured the salary would be much higher. I have a couple of friends two years into their degree right now, I'll ask them about it.

Thought about being a psychiatrist but I'm not sure I want to be in school that long.

Maybe, I will look into it.

Going to a decent uni, far from the top tier, only going here because it's a 10-minute walk from my parent's house. The biggest problem is that I don't think there are a lot of tech jobs here, so there may not be good places to intern at.

I will look into it.

I was looking at marine engineering too; there's a good program here for studying that. You can get houses easy where I live too; my sister got a decent one at 20 without finishing high school.

A large portion of doctors are actually terrible at diagnosing anything but the most common conditions. Machines that aid doctors are already being worked on and improve accuracy of diagnosis significantly.

I meant ME not sailors. I'm too lazy today for checking a proper names of profesions on the net.

I'd trust a machine to diagnose me over a dummy doctor

Once you get more than a certain amount, the excact pay is not as important as what the job entails.
Find something you want to do. Any high paying job requires a lot of work, so if you don't care about the work, no salary is going to be enough.

I'm still lost in life; it's hard to know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want a comfy salary with a job I don't hate.

It's actually done by boolean data type. Doctors only input results of the basic tests into a program which shows results as a next tests needed to be done on patient to diagnose him well. It is mainly done to cut the budget by doing less medical tests

I get that.
But based on your previous experiences, you should know what fields you find interesting and what fields you are good at.
There is a large difference with wanting to create new communication methods, build robots and talk to crazy people.
Find which fields interests you (if there is more, find an umbrella term and pick the most interesting.

Data Science/ Data Engineering.

With our current transition to the 'Information Age', better means of data filtering, transfer and storage have become incredible necessities. The fields are already on the rise, going up the list of top-earning jobs. DS/DE is projected to become the highest paying job in the near future.

Data Science involves of analysis of data, and coming up with better solutions to handle it. Data Engineering involves the actual application of those proposed solutions. Both fields are complementary to each other and carry the same weighting.

What I was about to say. I have 15 years in IT and the market is slowly dying here for a multitude of reasons. The one field that seems steady or growing is Data (storage and analytics). I think automation plays a role but as shit moves to the cloud and apps are developed in simple languages the CS world becomes narrower if you want a job.

Can confirm. I'm just a basic programmer/sysadmin, and I clear six figures a year. Car and bike are paid off, and I'm renting out my first home. It's boring though, and I'm still not sure how or what the "next level" here is. How does someone make seven figures? Owning a business seems like the only solution.

This. Also, a good Electrical Engineer who wants with software can do it just fine as long as he/she is willing to learn a few things on his/her own. Someone with a CompSci background would have a lot of problems trying to work with hardware, or anything else in the physical domain really.
Computer engineering is fine too if you only want to learn about computers, but EE is more broad and will qualify you to work on more things.

Wants to work*

>and I'm renting out my first home
Like that's an achievement? Lmoa.

Does this mean technology will eventually get to a point where it won't matter if the code was written by either a pajeet or a neckbeard?

It is already that way to a degree. Many of the people filling Sr. Dev roles did not go to college and/or are self taught or bootcampers. In some ways it is a good thing but their lack of experience, I feel, forces them to only feel comfortable hiring people with their own type of skills or less for fear they will be out shined and proved unworthy of their job. I know some cities are not this way bit I have observed it a lot in the Midwest.