Any Comp Sci major graduates here?

[GoldenBear]

If so..I was wondering how hard it was to get through, and how is your life now?

 

[vi edit]

Comp Sci grad here(May 2000). 4 year private liberal arts college.

Worked full time doing HP-UX mainframe support and application support for a big software provider in the medical industry. I went through a semester long depression getting a 1.7 GPA one semester but still graduated with a 3.4 overall. I sucked at programming but managed to make my way through things.

I accepted a full time position for the company I worked for while in college. I worked there for a month and then accepted a position at my current employer.

I'm still trying to find my way in my current position. I still have some kinks to work out but things are shaping up. I acutally am fairly stress free about my position because I work for a company that manages a bunch of Arby's Restaurants and a handful of Krispy Kreme shops. We aren't a tech industry, and a lot of my perks aren't stock oriented (which sucks because KK stock has gone sky high).

I make high 40's (note I am in Iowa), have decent bennies like cheap health and dental(about $20 a month), they pay for my internet access at home, free cell phone, free arby's and krispy kreme while I'm on duty, and pretty decent travel reimbursement. Probably my best perk is the fact that I can work a flex schedule. I can more or less show up anytime between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM, put in my 8 hours, and then leave. If I need a day off, I just put in an extra 2 hours the other four days of the week and the boss is OK with it.

I can honestly say that my computer classes at school have little to no impact on my day to day work. I could have taught several of the classes better, and more times than not, I had to correct the teachers who weren't up to date on the latest technologies. Pretty much any skills that I do at work have been self learned through books, the web, and trial and error.

There isn't much room for advancement where I'm at, and I don't get to play with a lot of the latest and greatest gizmos and gadgets, but it's a decent resume builder. I'm going to ride things out for a while, wait for the tech stocks to get back on their feet, wait for my g/f to get out pharmacy school, and then make the hop to bigger and better things.

To make a long story short, I wouldn't have gotten where I am without the degree, but what I learned in college was by no means necessary to do my job. It's things outside of my career where my college classes have paid off, i.e. psychology, sociology, history, accounting, ect.

 

[SendTrash]

this is cool.. any more?

 

[joohang]

Goldenbear,

You might find this thread interesting.

 

[lilstevo]

1 more year to go and i can grad with my 2 something in CS...<sigh>