Just turned 23. Absolutely clueless and lost. What you do?

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STRELI

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STRELI
Jan 25 25 Comments

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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  • BMW
    nGaI73

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    nGaI73
    If I could go back in time I think I wouldn’t do a masters degree but I would have done my bachelors in 3 years instead of 4
    Jan 25 5
    • BMW
      nGaI73

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      nGaI73
      My bachelors was so easy that I think I could have done it in 3. Like many schools, it was grade inflation and pretty low stress in the grand scheme. I was able to get a good gpa and I partied like crazy lol I guess that’s pretty good but I also did nothing outside of going out and school. I also studied abroad. I guess 4 year bachelors is fine.

      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
      Jan 25
    • Masters is proof of the law of diminishing returns
      Jan 25
  • Meta
    kWXj08

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    kWXj08
    Finish college. Get the computer science degree. It’s so valuable it’s not even funny.
    Jan 25 1
    • Intuit
      DNJJ63

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      DNJJ63
      What courses actually add value to your career? I’m curious because I dropped out of cs my senior year and have regrets about going in the first place
      Jan 25
  • Airbnb / Eng
    Ctrlo

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    Ctrlo
    Every time somebody asks this I tell them the same thing.

    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.
    Jan 25 2
    • BMW
      nGaI73

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      nGaI73
      I think degree is less work than no degree. The amount of work you need to put in to compensate for not having a degree can be quite extreme. Plus a lot of cs programs in US are easy compared to other countries
      Jan 25
    • BMW
      nGaI73

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      nGaI73
      Sorry for getting it twisted 🌪
      Jan 25
  • New
    got-em

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    got-em
    Honestly I wouldn’t go to college, I’d learn it on my own in a year, struggle and get a shitty cs job for a year, and then after that you’ll be golden.
    Jan 25 6
  • Amazon
    quh

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    quh
    Getting a bachelor's is generally pretty useful, and maybe you can take classes you're more interested in or enjoy the ones you have to take. I'd just focus on getting internships, getting your foot in the door in tech, doing side projects, etc over getting a better GPA (except short term so that you can transfer from the community college to the state university). Depends on the school but it can generally be hard to transfer into computer science.
    Jan 25 0