Computer Science for the Glory

What were you thinking when you went in to CS?  You're a smart guy -- you know those business, law, and medical folk are making some bank.  Hell, you know that with an even smaller time investment, plumbers and welders are making just as much or more than those folks, not to mention considerable domestic job security.

What's so attractive about it?  For the most part, you become "the IT guy."  Sure, you will/are making a decent salary, but you know you could have done better.  If you're fresh out of college, you'll take what you get, which probably includes selling your free time for pennies to a company that has you on-call.  You felt secure about being top x% of your school, but you forgot that many others like you are churned out every year, and hundreds of other places.

I'm trying to answer this question myself...  I guess this is just what I'm good at.

s/and hun/at hun/

I did it for teh lulz

>>3
Back to /b/, please.

An astute IT person, be it a developer or a support bod, can find himself in a company and be able to do little to no work on the average day and only have to really work when an urgent issue comes up.

>>1
I am a computer magician that has achieved satori. I conjure the spirits of the computer with my spells.

http://www.tindeck.com/listen/stwv

>>5
God bless us, every one.

Am I the only guy on 4chan that chose CS as a studying subject because he likes it, without too much regard about the job opportunities or paychecks involved?

I'm still doing the general education, so I haven't had to declare my major yet, but I'm considering EE over CS.

>>8
I doubt it. I chose EE because I really enjoyed it I was the only one in my year :(

>>8
No, you're not the only one. That's impossible from a statistics point of view.

I wanted to make HL2 mods

>>11
It should read more like, "I'm the only person in my year who chose EE specifically because they enjoyed it". And let's just say that we had a really small intake that year (~20).

>>13
>>10
>implying EE is at all enjoyable.

>>14
well, thats just like, your opinion, man

>>14
I liked EE. Also, not only did you try that implying bullshit, you failed at it.

I wanted to make life.