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Ithaqua posted:There is practically zero money in computer science unless you have a Ph.D in a hot area (machine learning, for example). This is because computer science is not the same thing as being a professional software developer. An undergraduate CS education will give you a vast amount of theoretical knowledge, but that theoretical knowledge does not transfer into actually writing software professionally. The theoretical knowledge can come in handy, but the big, important things can be learned from Wikipedia or a good algorithms/data structures textbook. Eh, you could probably get a low paying (like 40-50k a year, which is still quite good for anyone without better prospects) job relatively easily if you're not terrible at programming. For every Google job, there are many jobs working for random businesses, governments, etc. I'm a super lovely programmer and still managed to find a job with the money I mentioned + good benefits that consists of just fixing software bugs and adding new features (though at least it's in the context of scientific research, so I imagine it's a lot more interesting than having to work with some random small business's code). If the idea of sitting in front of a computer all day isn't appealing, though, you definitely shouldn't go this route (though I would think this would be obvious).
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