<p>While being a liberal arts major, could you get hired as a programmer getting payed like $50k?</p>
<p>What if you had a low GPA like 2.5?</p>
<p>That would be quite the difficult feat without any experience. That said, if you have experience in programming, whether from an internship or some notable job, that would help you in the job search.</p>
<p>A minor in Computer Science is about equivocal to an associates in Computer Science. Today I think you might be able to command a salary of ~40K, maybe a little more. If you’re looking for employability, a minor in Computer Science will probably fall a bit short.</p>
<p>you can program some sandwiches at wendy’s</p>
<p>i dont think 4 courses would be enough to be hired as a programmer. Those courses might be challenging if you’re a liberal arts major because you probably aren’t used to the intensive thinkings programmers often do. And, what can you really do with a 2.5 anyway?</p>
<p>Only if you don’t have a facebook</p>
<p>Do you have any extracurriculars or anything that shows your CS experience beyond the four classes?</p>
<p>If a company hired you, would you be able to contribute more than $50K / year in value through your programming?</p>
<p>LOL omg tentai, I missed you so much</p>
<p>Is this a serious question? Unless you actually programmed extensively in your free time, what would the benefit be of hiring you? No skill, no experience, poor grades. Yeah, let’s throw 50K at this guy!</p>
<p>Ditto to what the others said.</p>
<p>Unless you can show that you have some serious programming chops, from past experience for example, there’s practically no chance that you’ll get a programming job. </p>
<p>For instance, I know someone that had a job programming before going to college (so I’m assuming mainly self-taught). He’s a Ph.D. candidate now in Biostatistics. If he weren’t going the academic route, you can be sure he’d be employable after finishing a bachelors because of his previous years of experience programming.</p>
<p>Maybe you could get a job in your liberal study field that has some programming requirements. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be something like psychology, where you have to do some programming related to research. Then that would also require some skills in statistics and a decent mathematics background.</p>
<p>I just noticed you said “while being a liberal arts major”. So no, no chance in hell. Nobody is going to pay you $50k/year while you are also in school. You could maybe get a job on campus doing programming, but there are a lot more experienced CS majors looking for those jobs too.</p>
<br>
<br>
<p>Oops I meant after graduating, not while in Uni.</p>
<br>
<br>
<p>o thank you</p>