>>2
Outsourcing, fierce competition, not enough specialized fields to work in, jobs going to people with practical experience (engineers, ICT guys).
CS is only good if you want to become a lecturer/professor/doctor in it, also if you aim to advance the state of the art. If not, enjoy being a waiter or working at a call centre (the lowest and most humiliating job in IT)
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Anonymous2007-09-14 9:54 ID:fWZq9ERZ
My advice for anyone who has just started a CS degree is to GTFO of it immediately, and enter computer engineering or some sort of IT degree.
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Anonymous2007-09-14 11:02 ID:N/DFyMBU
i was cs, 3 months out of college making 25 an hour sitting at coffee shops doing bullshit web stuff, while all my friends who were politcal sci/bio are working their asses off at 9-5's making less many and have to wear business clothes.
so yes, definitely worth it if you are good at computers
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Anonymous2007-09-14 11:35 ID:TWTJ4TIH
All of the above only applies in Amerikkka
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Anonymous2007-09-14 11:38 ID:OxF58Es4
Or India, where CS degrees can be acquired via mail.
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Anonymous2007-09-14 11:39 ID:fWZq9ERZ
>>5
Would you mind running us through a typical work day?
Also what sort of attire do you wear at work?
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Anonymous2007-09-14 11:41 ID:N/DFyMBU
umm wake up around 9. show up for work around 10:30, half hour late. put on dirty jeans and t shirt. meet my boss at a coffee shop, make some .net web sites for sub prime lending websites. have lunch. comment on girl with big tits walking by. do more sites/look for jobs/whatever til around 6:30. well probably get an office eventually
so wait what.
if one were to intend to become a career programmer, would one:
get a computer science bachelor's, specialize, work on prominent or innovative open source projects, get internships
OR
not become a programmer as you cannot get a job as a programmer, ever.
>>18
that's because they do their work in more practical languages like quantum brainfuck.
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Anonymous2007-09-14 19:51 ID:JHqlnXAi
>>18
they finish their work faster because they have no work in the first place
no employer in their right mind would give a job to someone who only knows toy languages