majoring in informatics (info sci/tech)?

can someone tell me about majoring in informatics? what is it exactly and what kind of careers are there for it? is it a good major or is it useless? should i get a masters after my bs? i am a first year in college and am seriously thinking about majoring in something that has to do with computers. informatics seems interesting.

this is op. sorry if this sounds noobish but i really dont know a lot about this stuff.
what is the difference between informatics, information science and information technology. is there a difference?

have you wikied it?

"Informatics" is European for "Computer Science".

>>1
Computer Science is not for you if you post threads like this one.

CS graduates generally become code monkeys and fail at life. Good ones become scientists and do lots of awesome.

IT is synonymous with failure. Generally, IT people become losers and get paid to do nothing at work except give people a hard time, because nobody really knows what they're supposed to do. Good ones become underpaid code monkeys. Generally, if you are in I.T. it's because you:

A. haven't gone to college yet but will go for CS
B. haven't gone to college and are a lazy asshole
C. HAVE gone to college and are a stupid fuck

>>5

Once again anon fails hard

I get 60k a year being a sysadmin. Hardly a loser wage that.
College is over rated. Do let school get in the way of your education.

I meant to say *don't* let school get in the way of your education.

Oh, the irony - so delicious!

SCHOOL SCUKS

>>6
Plumbers also get paid a lot.

Having said that, being a good sysadmin is hard. It doesn't help that nobody appreciates the work that keeps the otherwise invisible infrastructure puttering along. We only notice sysadmins when shit is going on, which means the best admins are never noticed.

>>6
A CS major should be making close to six figures two years after college, you fail it

>>11

first -- i never graduated
second -- i call bullshit. links to IT industry wide salary averages or it never happened

>>10
this man speaks truth

>>10
Truth
When things are going well, it's just normal to most people, they think that happens effortlessly.

>>10
>>14
That's why you can't allow things to *appear* to be going too well. When the PHBs see you sitting around all day reading Usenet news they start to think they don't need you anymore. (it's kinda poetic justice to find out later their network went to shit they laid you off, but I digress). True story; it happened to me.

Look busy.
Paper trails and CYA, baby, all the way.

>>5

LOL SOMEONE IS A BROKE PIECE OF SHIT