Just turned 23. Absolutely clueless and lost. What you do?
Jan 25
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Currently working as a Night Auditor at a hotel. I started community college this past September going for a CS degree and then transferring after 1.5 years to a big university. I’ll finish college by the time I’m ~27…
The thing is there are so many required classes that I find extremely boring and have nothing to do with coding.
Should I actually continue with this college plan or go a boot camp for example or something else.
Like if you would go back in time what would you do?
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My masters was so hard I worked hard as fuck and I barely could do it in 2 and I end up graduating about 3 years later because of scheduling being shifted and I did an internship in between. That is more questionable even though I learned a lot, i learned a lot of advanced ml which I may never use and it was really a lot of work compared to my bachelors
A degree will open more doors. Especially if you live somewhere without a lot of tech. Companies will fly a new grad to a job location but not a bootcamper.
Doing summer college internships is one of the best ways into top tech companies. Interns at Airbnb have a 77% return offer rate. Which means that the majority get asked to come back as a new grad.
The degree is more work sure (up front), but also more opportunities.
Edit: I mean that it’s more work to earn a degree than to get through bootcamp. Don’t get it twisted.