r/cscareerquestions • u/foreversingle- • 12h ago

Student What is a career in CS like?

Im going into uni next year and choosing between CS and mechatronics engineering. The point of this post is not to see what the job market/employability is, but rather to gauge my interest in this field.

What sort of work do you guys do? What would I do outside of uni curriculum? I heard a lot about building personal projects, but what does that entail? Creating an app as a hobby for example? What are some career/job options and what sort of work do you do in said job? Whether you're a student or grad, whats your daily life looking like?

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u/CautiousCactusCat 12h ago

It’s over saturated and stressful.

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u/Warm-Surprise2766 12h ago

it pays good but yeah, exhausting by the end of the day

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u/A_sandlerGOAT 10m ago

Can’t be worse than blue collar jobs