<p>Already received a rude response in a different forum. Hopefully this part is a bit nicer.</p>
<p>I’ll keep it short and sweet.</p>
<p>I’m a junior who is wanting to be an author; but I’m also interested in computers.</p>
<p>Any tips for a major/career choice</p>
<p>Electrical engineering or computer science. Write in your spare time. I’m a chemistry major that writes in the spare time.</p>
<p>Well, the easiest thing to do would be to major in computer science, where jobs are plentiful, and write as an avocation, since it’s much harder to support yourself as a writer. However, there are some careers that combine computer science with a humanities orientation: technical writing, library/information science (an increasingly high-tech field), some kinds of advertising and web design. Computers are also increasingly used in upper-level humanities research, but for that you need a PhD in English + a lot of technical expertise, so the educational requirements are daunting and jobs are few and far between.</p>
<p>Agree with jingle. If none of those fields that combine the two appeal to you, then just do computer science and write in your spare time as a hobby. If you catch a break you can become a full-time writer and makes computers your hobby.</p>