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Originally Posted by ArthurS
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Originally Posted by tysonK
I see tons of jobs for CS degrees; I don't know where you are looking. I think every company I ever turned in a resume for was looking for people with CS skills. :?
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Skills yes....but from what I have been reading, IT and other similar jobs are extremly difficult to find. Almost every job now requires some type of computer skills....even my job.
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Yeah, I can pretty much state for a fact that it is EXTREMELY hard to get a job with a CS degree right now. About all the people I graduated with (last June) only about half of them have real jobs. 90% of the time they were gotten through relatives in government contracting firms.
Everyone else I know with a CS degree is working at CompUSA or BestBuy either selling computers or doing repairs. Stuff we all could have done right out of highschool. Hell, the job market being the way it was 6 years ago, it's very plausable that I could have had a much better job without going to college.
A small few have seemed to shrug off the CS thing, and are just using the degree to get better 9-5 office jobs not even related to CS or IT.
Almost daily I go back and forth on weather or not I want a real programming or IT job. Sometimes it feels that I should just give up and work in some sort of marketing position (which I am pretty decent at, but I don't necessarily enjoy it). I would absolutely love a programming job, but I've been looking for 9 months now to no avail (only a small handful of interviews).
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Originally Posted by JC
Ya IT sucks. I'm glad I ended up in Aerospace instead.
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Silly me. I could have studied Aerospace engineering at Cal Poly SLO, but I decided that Computer Science at UCSB would be much more profitable in the long run (damn you dotcom bubble
). That and there was more beer and hot chicks at UCSB.
