You guys are too focused on raw salary. $120k at facebook is not that great a salary when you adjust for the insane cost of living at most places in the West Coast.
Would rather make $90-95k and live in Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, or some other cheap but not bumblefuckish-middle-of-nowhere city, and not have to live in a 'burb and ride a train 1 hour to work in NYC, SF, Seatle, etc and/or have roommates.
>implying you need a CS degree to get a CS job
As someone who did a bootcamp and worked as a developer making software for banks and later went to go study CS.
No you wont get a CS job without a CS degree. You can hire any hobo from the street and teach him to write GUIs and database queries within a few weeks.
But those jobs are uninspiring, soul sucking and don't make much more than starbucks. The only good thing about is that once every year they'll treat you to an expensive dinner in a 3 star restaurant with 13 microscopic courses that still leave you with hunger. You're better of becoming an electrician, you'll get a lot more satisfaction out of it.
But you wont hire CS people to do those jobs, they're way to expensive.
My goal is one day to be able to develop an AI that can program itself, that way brainlet CS grads can be homeless and living in the streets where they belong.
>Take CS
>Go to grad school and specialise in computability theory
>end up poor
Worth it
I'm learning all of this cs on my own and you make me want to kill myself
Because I worth more than just CS.
people who code are brainlet
in your next life maybe youll work a bit at school, hehe
t. prof who hires brainlets for unpaid internships to do dirty work I dont want to do
Hey user-san.. Willing to hire an undergrad cs major who is 30yrs old, for 42k/yr with 0 yrs exp directly relevant?
How do I get into software engineering?
>Software engineering is the best degree
fuck off