I’m a senior in high school right now and definitely need to consider what I’m going to do in college and for work.
For a very long time I’ve been into computers, and am a developer with a few big projects under my belt (this is a burner account for privacy). So, my logical choice for a while was to become a software developer professionally.
Nowadays that plan doesn’t look too promising. AI has basically replaced junior developers (with dubious results) and the competition has gotten much fiercer. I’m not even in college yet so I have a good amount of time to potentially pivot to something else before choosing a major.
I’ve got quite a bit of experience with Linux and I manage a home server, but that probably doesn’t differentiate me much. I’m honestly interested in most things computer related, but don’t know of any specific fields to seek out. If it’s so hard for fresh CS graduates to get jobs, why would any other option be different?
IMO traditional office work wise, accounting is a decent job in terms of money and employment rates. Depends on if you like numbers though
For more engineering focus aerospace is super popular right now.
If you still want to get into CS, you’ll likely need to get into a niche. Cybersecurity and database are more employed than general software. There’s less people applying in these specialist roles
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat25b.htm
Do database roles even exist anymore? It’s all been “left shifted” to devs these days
Yea
For clarification though I mean dev work as part of database orgs within the big cloud companies like amazon, google, microsoft.
Basically since a lot of companies rely on cloud providers, the big cloud companies always has headcount for those orgs. In fact most cloud service orgs have headcount if you can prove your expertise. (It is biased towards experienced devs though). Database is the one I can think of that schools actually put in the curriculum.
Database admin role yea the line between dev and that is a bit more muddled.