My first bachelors is in English but I took some courses and did an internship in compsci before. I’m hoping to finish in two years but am not sure I have enough money to do it. Not sure I can work full time even if I manage to get the degree. My mom says I can take two courses in the summer to try it out but I’m wondering if it’ll be a waste of money.
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If you don’t want to teach English then it might be a good idea. 2 years is not too much. Sometimes I want to get a PhD, but I’m not really ready to commit to 6 years.
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Congratulations on the degree. A big sore point with me is that I failed college (engineering) and didn’t get my degree.
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Good job on your Bachelors in English. The only way to know if Computer Science is something you want to pursue is to try a couple courses. It may end up being a ‘waste’ of money but, on the other hand, you will learn something whether you pursue your Degree or not.
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You can never be too educated.
If you have the opportunity to attend, go for it. All knowledge gained can be applied in many more ways than just on paper.
Congrats on the bachelors in English, it’s an honor you earned that no one can take away from you.
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Try a MOOC like intro to cs50 from Harvard online. It’s free. That will give you a good idea if you like it.
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I had the psychosis start full-time for me during 20 hour work-weeks in summer and calculus/physics classes. I already have a BA in Journalism…Realized programming would not be a good choice for me as I had to PAY to work at the good job at the college and my psychosis never stopped for more than a few minutes in last 12 years, medicated or not. I got BA to begin with as my elementary school had poor math curriculum and my parents did not understand they needed to be involved. I later took digital media classes and performed more than sufficiently. I’m pleased with it until I ran into a messed up instructor at the college who was discriminating and I had to sign up for disability support services to keep him from insisting my ‘homework’ was showing up at the bar to meet him. He bothered me in a room full of people and it wasn’t his first time…More of the instructors started to ignore worse and worse stuff, so I gave up on EVER using this school again as the curriculum is just bad, completely out of date for tech and not even compatible. Have to buddy up WAY TOO MUCH to get working web sites. Disability supports got him to stop sexually harassing me but the crazy classmates harassing me during class continued and remaining computer in class with the software got destroyed so I had to use my own machine & pay for program to finish the class.
Witnessed similar stuff at other schools and watched the complaints filter through the media here about some of the state schools mistreating unwanted students (sometimes ex-wives, unwilling mistresses, ruined businessmen or kids from wrong side of tracks). If you get student loan or PELL GRANT you will have to pay it back immediately if you drop due to mistreatment…Also know you will need to continue to deal with your established mental care to give you a DR note for disability support services as any new care you try to use may screw you really bad if you move to go to school…Disability supports can get you alternative assignments if put in groups with people who won’t cooperate, take tests and homework done in another room so it’s quiet…So, paying cash for a couple classes over the summer is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL idea to see how the staff in your subject area treat students and how other students will treat you. I think it helps IMMENSELY not to be involved with the wealthy students or greek thing as it is just the wrong kind of people who will mistreat someone. Was better to stay to the workers and even do night school…
GOOD LUCK!
I say go for it. I see a lot of jobs that require computer science degrees out there.
Just got a job offer doing IT related administrative work at the bank. Hopefully this job will let me know if I can handle full time work. If it works out, I will take computer science in the summer. If all works out, I will become a computer scientist one day. Otherwise, I will wait a year and study accounting instead. All this rests on the fact that I can suck it up and do this job. Wish me luck!!
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I think most programming is foreign outsourced nowadays. but if you wanted to design computer circuitry for cell phones or smart TVs or cars or something there are still jobs here for it.
HM, unless you plan on going to work right away after graduation, I don’t know if computer science is a good thing to study. When I first went to college (2001) I studied Computer Applications & Programming, and got a specialized associates degree. I learned a lot about computers, though 10 years later I think most of what I learned is out-dated. I mean back then AOL was a big thing, and it was like Windows 98…and look at computers now.
So unless you can find a job right away or plan on up keeping the information you learn go for it!
My mom tells me to relax and see how things go. I found a lot of compsci jobs online doing compsci for the government, so I guess the jobs are out there. It’s just whether or not I can handle the classes or even a full time job. If the classes are too difficult, I can always switch to accounting the following year and consider it just one year of money wasted. Right now it’s just good to have a job to see if I can handle working full time. My confidence is shattered but my brain still seems to be working ok.
Unfortunately, I’m partially thinking about trying to get this degree to overcompensate for how suicidal I feel over a bad ending to a previous relationship. I used to be pretty smart and got my undergraduate at a top 10 university, so it’s possible I can handle it, but still it’s possible that I should lower my expectations and take a easy life. IDK. If I can do computer science, I can move with my mom to a nice town away from Hawaii and settle down with a nice family and maybe be truly happy again.
There’s actually a lot of work available that isn’t outsourced. There’s actually too much work to be done. Which is also why outsourcing is happening. Not enough capable developers
IT. Is a different story though. There won’t be much of that work available in the next 5 years or so
I don’t think that is a wise idea to base your college career on. You should only really go to college if you really enjoy the subject you want to learn. I did learn some things when I went to school for computers, I did enjoy working on web-design, but hated software coding. I also did not enjoy the physical aspects we had to learn, they literally had us taking apart computers and learning each little piece and how to put it back together again and that is so not interesting to me. Though now when talking to technical support people I do have a better understanding on how some things work because I can understand the lingo they like to use for various parts or programs.
I know feeling suicidal sucks, I’ve been feeling that lately but think about it, if you go back to school and you aren’t as successful as you think will be wouldn’t that make it even harder on yourself? If you find a full time job and realize you can’t handle the pressure that wont help either. To me College should always be looked at as a full time job in itself.
There is a lot of information you will learn, some you may use in the future some you may find pointless. Like when I was studying for my Bachelor’s degree they had us actually working with real floor plans of offices and figuring out how and where to put certain things to fit with legal codes for like handicap and whatnot (like how far apart chair’s should be, where to put electrical outlets, how wide doorways should be. Now I wasn’t studying to be an interior designer, or architect but it was a class they made me take anyway.
But college is very stressful. It is very time consuming, and yes it is very expensive. I don’t know if going back to school would help combat the suicidal thoughts or add to the piles of stress and disappointments that have led you to this feeling. I’m not trying to sound negative here, I just want you to think about the negative things about going back to school and how that can affect your stress levels and if it’s something you think you can handle.
The coding classes I took were fun for me. I just had trouble with discrete math so I’m taking it in community college. If it doesn’t work out, I’ll try to drop out early and call it a year wasted. It is a disappointment but learning is fun for me and I like being in school. At this point I just want to see where things go because I have nothing to loose anymore. I just took the GMAT and got a pretty high score. If computer science doesn’t work out, I’ll go back to school for a masters in accounting and get a job anyhow. One way or the other, I’d like to go back to school. And even after that, if school doesn’t work out, I guess I have my parents to fall back on and have a good relationship with my mom.
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I also hear alot of older coders get fired because it’s cheaper to hire a fresh graduate.
As long as you enjoy learning and it is something you really want to do there isn’t anything wrong with it. Nothing ventured nothing gained I guess.
Yeah it is also advisable to change your job every 3 years to avoid becoming stagnant
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