hardcorenobody

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How do you go about getting experience for this? It sounds like the type of thing best learned on the job.

Alright, I think I'll stick it out. Doesn't seem like a bad trajectory. Thanks!

No problem. Thank you! Added to the very long list of things to look into from this thread.

Interesting. By backend apis do you mean for things like angularjs and azure?

I do have a therapist. I've resolved many of my issues and I'm working on the other ones. However, choosing CS is a legacy of bad decision making in the past (I was terrible at some aspects of emotional intelligence, such as the very complicated, obscure art of knowing how I feel), so now I have to deal with the consequences.

That's a very uplifting story, though. I'll need to put out a thesis topic within the year, and the past months I've been thinking of making it about accessibility in tech. I know several people who have struggles with how tech is usually made for abled people and features for the disabled are marketed as luxuries for the abled. I was going to put off looking up this topic for the thesis proposal period, but it might be worth a google or two in my spare time.

... Oh. I guess I've been pressuring myself too much. None of my friends are taking CS, so I don't have a clear idea of what the competition is like.

Heh, I've never heard of automation companies. I'll look this up, thank you!

It's too late because of personal reasons not appropriate for this forum, lol.

Interesting, what's wrong with Android or web dev? I keep hearing they're pretty okay to get into.

Sorry that I was unclear. My bad. I hate programming, of all things. Math, electronics, all good, I hate code.

There's a program in my university called "Management Information Systems." I suppose I should look at what kind of things their majors do, and what their jobs are usually like?

It seems like I like multiple things about computers, but I don't like programming, specifically, and that's what I find myself doing for hours a day because of this degree. And that's apparently to be expected in this field.

Honestly, you're right on the money. These are the fields I find the most tolerable. Cheers.

1. With security, I tried it and I'm not sure my brain is built for it.

2. Machine Learning — I got discouraged because I heard they mostly do deployment, which is a shame because the theory looks interesting, and the stuff you make can be funny. Maybe I dismissed it too fast? I got tired of spending months learning things only to consistently dislike them. I should give it another shot.

3. I might pursue quantum computing if I go back and take that bachelor's in physics.

This is exactly why I left, actually. Although it's looking like I'm more obsessed with it than I thought. Whoops. I'm seriously considering taking a bachelor's in it for fun in the future, after some years of working.

LMAO. I am wondering if working my way up to middle management would make it worth it. What's your story, if you'd be willing to share?

I realize any interest I had about computers was more of a "how does this work?" type of deal, and I'm not interested in making whatever app or site or something. "Oh, you don't need to know that. You just need to know enough to use it. Treat it like a black box." Great, I'm interested in how it works, and not in what I can do with it. And when it's something like networks or operating systems how it works can become boring very fast because they're often basically just design decisions of other people, from how I see it anyway.