> BA in Poli. Sci. from top 50 school > MA in Professional Comm. from top 200 school > Self-taught HTML/CSS/JS and make decent money as front end dev. > never used, and probably never will use, anything I learned in university
my pops fronted the $$ for my BA and the MA was paid for thru a scholarship, but goddamn it i wasted 6 years of my life.
So... You didn't consider what job prospects and starting salary you'd be looking at for the degrees you chose? Must be nice being rich...
Sebastian Baker
What did you use to learn your languages? Anywhere free that’s good? Probably what I’m gonna need to end up doing
Cooper Brooks
>wasted 4 years playing vidya instead of interning while getting my CS degree >uni taught in a different programming language each semester and didnt have any side projects >can barely program 5 years later >unemployed now and if were still in a bear market in 6 months im just gonna an hero
>CS degree >2.1 gpa, no internships >send out a zillion job applications in senior year >find job months before graduation and been working for almost 2 years now
There is still hope.
Ryder Williams
CS degree + 3 years experience
160k in salary and bonuses
seattle isn't the greatest but you can save a lot if you're not retarded. targeting late 40s retirement
>wasted 4 years getting a degree in chem. engineering >took forever to get a full time job >started working in a field that isnt even related to my studies (well kinda related) >didnt need any qualifications for it, just previous experience with coal >getting paid slightly more than most of the people i graduated with, granted i work one day on the weekend >shit hours and no chance of climbing up to the management ladder
im worse off in the long run, ill still be wagecucking while all of my friends move into higher positions and getting paid way more, oh and actually have decent hours. my job is pretty stress free though. i cant find the dead inside wojak so ill post this instead
>computer engineering major >majority of the classes I take (hardware) will be useless because I will probably end up doing software >should’ve just done comp sci
Cooper Taylor
Be willing to relocate you fucking goober go outside fuck
Liam Cox
get a few years experience and then start looking for a new gig
Aaron Davis
what job?
what kinda computer hardware jobs are out there for a CS major? ive always like hardware better than software, but IT is boring and i dont have any engineering experience
i live in a city, but dont have a car
Nathaniel Morris
a lot, but those are all taken by oldies who've been working in the field since the 90's
Gabriel Howard
i was thinking about, but it would be fly in fly out work in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. the pay will definitely be better but it wont be simple wagecuckery, it will be advanced wagecuckery
Cameron Lewis
.net developer
Luis Smith
From what I know CS majors don’t do hardware, that’s computer architecture/digital logic design which is what computer engineers learn. But the job market for that is small and any open jobs are competitive so I’ll probably end up doing software like everyone else. Sad part is I have to learn a ton of new languages that I was never taught like python, js, rust, and sql
Camden Green
>Pharmacy degree >take 5 years to train and accredit myself as a pharmacist >hate it
Welp, don't do specialized degrees folks. Back to the drawing board
Cameron Murphy
>train 5 years to watch people in good health slowly fuck themselves more and more every day and taking larger doses of poisons everytime you see them what a wonderful rewarding job indeed
Justin Jenkins
I'm 21 now and wagecucked straight out of school. I make $22 /hr for non-strenuous work and have saved about 33k. While my endurance and work ethic have improvent, my study ethic is basically non-existent. I have some coursework that I can tackle on the side to improve my wage but my progress is incredibly slow. I have discipline in other areas of life like gym & abstenance from reckless drug use (friends go pretty hard) but I've yet to cultivate a good drive for studying. I've ordered some books though to try & improve, I think it'll be good reading something that's not a screen.
How do you uni guys do it? Life's pretty comfy but I worry about my mind not being challenged. I fell for the 'avoid university' meme pretty hard when I was 18 on Jow Forums.
Oliver Ramirez
You can coast pretty easily through college without having to study desu. I'm graduating next month and I've really only had to do hard core study days for a few classes my entire time in college.
Henry Reyes
about to do 1st year chem eng exams
fuck me
Caleb Ortiz
Can you just get a programming job from self teaching code even if you have a BA then? I'm from the UK so it might be different to the US
Jose Butler
T. Will die at 50 because "meds are kike lies"
Carter Davis
stop shitposting, meds are not lies, most are ok, but those are prescribed shit, which are for a reason due to the numerous complication with each substances, and most of the time they trade a problem for another, merely hiding the symptoms (i'm speaking here about anti-depre, sleep pills, and anything that has anything to do with your brain overall are mostly poison to some extent)
Cameron Sanchez
Stfu nigger benzos are god tier. Next you will tell me drugs are bad?
>deliberately slows his brain >when he could be taking experitemtal racetam to boost him brain up instead on tripping like a retard this is why you will never make it
Brody Walker
I would be interested to know this too. Unsure if my chemistry degree is going to get me a good job.
Grayson Jenkins
> brainlet > 3 semesters of computer science in uni > dismissed > gamble with last bits of student loans in crypto > make $64000 > lose it all and now have $2700 > working a $10.50/hr job 5 days a week now
>26 >no degree >self taught programmer >only experience is writing iOS apps and a shitty ETH pyramid which got cloned by the pajeets at least I made money
Can I get a junior dev job with some basic dev skills? I’m not great desu. Willing to relocate :’)
Jordan Nguyen
Rajeesh My friend Thanks for the ez money
Adam Cooper
How do you get a programmer job without a degree OP? I dropped out of university and plan on self learning as well.
Sebastian Carter
>History degree.
I realise too late that finance is what I'd really like to do.
The plan is to move to china or russia to teach english then find a cushy token british job at a corporation
Gabriel Hernandez
Heh thought this thread would die and was pleasantly surprised to see it on the first page of Mimi with a bunch of replies.
This is OP posting from my phone.
Regarding doing front-end w/o a degree: im self employed so im not working for anyone. Good marketing takes you pretty far in front end. I made a website showing examples of my work and left contact info for business inquiries. Now handle the front end for about 10 small-medium size companies.
To be fair I do work with node.js as well and all that comes with it, plus for a few companies i take them from step 1 in terms of getting a website - literally, domain, hosting, etc.
My eye for styling i think is what got me here - my websites are stunning IMO and im not one to brag at all.
Kevin Gomez
Truly the strongest redpill is that optics (presentation/marketing/whatever) are a powergap above skill in terms of importance for success. It takes a savant to rely on skill alone