Seeking advice on changing major

Reactor
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:48:49 +0000

I think anyone can do well in CS even if the job market sucks or the economy is bad. It’s all about the ideas that you can get out there. And in terms of education and work, it’s about the motivation and interest that you have towards the topics and practices.

Think about it, we have the internet and a huge load of computers and more are being acquired constantly. Who writes programs and knows how the internet works? Programmers.

Or think about all the daily software that you use. Who designs and writes them? Programmers.

Or think about scientific computation. Who figures out novel ways to compute and verify unsure, inaccurate or previously laboriously calculated scientific truths? Or figures out computations/simulations for engineering problems? Programmers.

The world is your oyster, so to say. Not to make CS any more important than many many other (or we could say all) fields, just “pretty powerful” in today’s world.