When I graduated I had already decided that software development was too painful and not rewarding enough - in my experience up to that point. I chose to pursue system admin - networking, scripting, installing, configuring.

This was a good way to learn how to work with infrastructure 'hands on' and much less stressful than writing code, compared to my experience up to that point.

I ended up finding a route into development where I wasn't banging my head against so many walls, and was enjoying it, then stuck with it for about 12 years.

If you got a CS degree, you're capable of writing code, but you don't have to do it _now_.