I relate to this feeling a lot. I’m not much further ahead of you but i am at a point where i have a solid career ahead.
I bounced around a lot too as far as interests go, and I still do. I would say go for what sticks out the most and makes the most practical sense. For me, that was CS, i had started picking it up in high school with some classes, but then there would be long stretches where i never write one line of code.
In my opinion: work is shit. There are shitty jobs, and less shitty jobs, but if work isn’t shit, it doesn’t pay (why pay someone to do something you can do yourself?). What you need at this point is discipline. There were plenty of times i wanted to give up on college or CS in general but I recognized that I would only make life shittier by doing so.
A lot of people will tell you that you should find something you like doing. This is terrible advice, tons of people go into fields they love that don’t have a lot of job prospects and assume they will be the exception. Find something you don’t mind doing, but will bring you success. Don’t think of it as a lifelong commitment. With money comes freedom. You can always change careers down the line if you truly hate every position you get.
I think this is a good point. Work doesn’t have to be a passion of yours. It shouldn’t suck the joy out of your life, but there’s nothing wrong with with just seeing your job as a job. I currently work as a software engineer for an insurance company. I don’t give two shits about insurance. But my team is good, the work is fine, they let me work from home, so i don’t mind it.
I relate to this feeling a lot. I’m not much further ahead of you but i am at a point where i have a solid career ahead.
I bounced around a lot too as far as interests go, and I still do. I would say go for what sticks out the most and makes the most practical sense. For me, that was CS, i had started picking it up in high school with some classes, but then there would be long stretches where i never write one line of code.
In my opinion: work is shit. There are shitty jobs, and less shitty jobs, but if work isn’t shit, it doesn’t pay (why pay someone to do something you can do yourself?). What you need at this point is discipline. There were plenty of times i wanted to give up on college or CS in general but I recognized that I would only make life shittier by doing so.
A lot of people will tell you that you should find something you like doing. This is terrible advice, tons of people go into fields they love that don’t have a lot of job prospects and assume they will be the exception. Find something you don’t mind doing, but will bring you success. Don’t think of it as a lifelong commitment. With money comes freedom. You can always change careers down the line if you truly hate every position you get.
I think this is a good point. Work doesn’t have to be a passion of yours. It shouldn’t suck the joy out of your life, but there’s nothing wrong with with just seeing your job as a job. I currently work as a software engineer for an insurance company. I don’t give two shits about insurance. But my team is good, the work is fine, they let me work from home, so i don’t mind it.