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It’s interesting how on r/itcareerquestions people actually talk about the job while on r/cscareerquestions it’s… (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by buh@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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…all humble bragging, condescending to people who arent grindset sigmas making 500k/yr, and racism (mostly against Indians but sometimes people grumbling that the job market would be better if it weren’t for the 10% of non-white/asian people who are universally “diversity hires”)

not to say I haven’t seen the above in the IT sub, but the difference is staggering…

Someone’s gotta do an ethnological study on why between two different career fields that on the surface would seem to attract similar types of people, one has like 10x as many psychos

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

the rhetoric for the preceeding 15ish years was "you're dumb if you try to pursue anything other than software engineering, every college major that isn't CS is a useless underwater basket weaving degree that won't get you any jobs"

Well, if you’re looking for a relatively stable career that pays well, then STEM is basically the only accessible option as it requires almost nothing if you’re exceptional, and relatively cheap for the average person.

Other careers like medical and law require huge up front investments, i.e. tuition, and many years of schooling. MBAs are the butt of the joke in the “technical” degree side of college, but if you’re good enough at talking you’ll land a decent job. Almost everything else, whether they’re inherently more useful than STEM, will get you either nothing for years or the salary is barely tolerable.