u/AccomplishedCake3009

I’m sure this subreddit gets this question a lot? But I feel I genuinely need to ask people who either have a career or recently got an internship. Is it really as hard as people say it is? The last thing I want is to spend a couple years building up my skills and degree only for it to be completely useless because of over-competition. Any advice for a fresh undergrad? Also for context I’ve already fulfilled all of my core credits at my community college, and this fall is when I’d be applying to a state college which is why I’m debating this ASAP.

Like the title says, I’m looking for honest advice on the exact variables of the situation I’m in, especially from people who have a career with a CS major or are actively taking courses for it.

I’m 20 years old, just got an associates for General Studies, and have the option to transfer to a 4 year college with my core credits fulfilled because of it. I have always considered CS but started growing concerned with how saturated the market is. Market aside though, I’m not completely knew to computers. I built my own PC and one of my side hobbies for years has been picking apart video games and learning how they work on a technical level (while the coding aspect never stuck to me, I feel like that was due to wanting to keep things mentally simple rather than failing at it) and I am genuinely interested in learning at least one coding language. I did learn Shell in windows a decent bit as a start per my CS friend’s advice, and I seem to get the hang of it, and I’m well aware how much patience and composure coding requires. Now, where I’m questioning if it’s right for me is first of all, location. I live in the tri-state area, and I’m unsure if that’s a good thing because of the opportunities, or a bad thing because of competitiveness. I don’t need anything luxurious really, just a career to live comfortably. Given all this, do you think this is a good option for me? Is there anything I desperately need to know before considering this?

I distinctly remember the video being of an older white man with white hair in a light blue shirt. He starts by fiddling with the camera, saying “how do you turn this fucking piece of shit on?” Then sitting down and saying “Hello it’s me pappy, this is my video will. If you’re watchin’ this that means the diabeetus finally got me.” He then reads off what he is leaving to his family, including how he is leaving his son Bobby a massive collection of dildos. The video ends off with him dissing his son in law Ken, looking into the camera and saying “screw you ken!”