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/Ours15 11h ago
If you start majoring in CS now, in 4 years you will get to be underemployed with minimum savings. You also get to read comments on this sub about how in 12 to 24 months, CS will experience another boom rivalling 2021, which has been repeated since 2023. By the time you graduate, it's highly likely both OpenAI and Anthropic have gone bankrupt. But that won't stop this sub from coping about how CS is the best career ever, and if you work hard and are passionate, a job will fall to your lap no problem.
If that's the "career" you are into, then yeah, go ahead and get that CS degree. But please, I suggest you go the engineering route.
!remindme 5 years.