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Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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I'm halfway through my bachelor's CE, but really thinking about dropping and doing a trade instead.
I'm probably going to cop a few downvotes for this, but in my whole career the only software engineers I ever met who were worth a damn were people who loved it for its own sake, and would be doing it regardless. So, if your feelings about the field are such that you're thinking you might be better off doing a trade, you'd definitely be better off doing a trade.
Good luck either way.
If there's no hope for getting a job, it doesn't mean they're not passionate.
It's really not like that, programmers will always be extremely sought after. Just not bad programmers that haven't really coded anything yet. Those are in quite an abundance. After giving the thirtieth intern a try and some lessons, it starts to feel hopeless when they turn in something that is using divisors on tick to solve a problem the engine already does and doesn't notice the cpu cap because they are on a monster beefy developer station