People with CS degrees: What do you do?

[Mapidus]

Just wondering what people with CS degrees do. I just graduated, but am currently unemployed. Not sure what I want to do though or where to start looking. What do you girls and guys do and do you like it.

 

[Cougar]

I have a wonderful job.....it's called sitting at home on my butt all day. I'm still unemployed after all my months of searching. If you steal one of my potential jobs I'm going to have to hunt you down and beat you with a fish

 

[Pretender]

aargh don't say those things I'm thinking of going for a CS degree

(still in HS, graduate next year)

 

[pac1085]

Sit home, and play CS all day

 

[WasabiCat]

graduate school!... or else be a coding peon for the rest of your life

 

[Cougar]

It seems like ever since the dot-com shakedown it's been rough finding jobs (at least in my area). If you've got any sort of job right now dealing with computers hang on to it for dear life.

 

[Cougar]

<< Sit home, and play CS all day >>



Dude, you summed up my day almost perfectly. If you had said &quot;sit home and play starcraft and CS all day&quot; I probably would have thought that you were spying on me

 

[alaniscool]

Hmm, this worries me considering that I'll be graduating with a cs degree in a year. Is it really that rough right now?

 

[N8Magic]

I found a job no problem.

I'm a network engineer with a telco.

 

[chiwawa626]

I mainly own people on public servers, or somtimes on our clan server....gotta get sum kniffes on the campers...


-counter Strike rite?

 

[Valhalla1]

I have a mainframe computer operations job while going to school for a CS or MIS degree.. also network admin/consultant for another company.

guys coming out of my school with CS degrees are all pretty much signing jobs in dallas, houston, san antonio and austin for $45k ish out of school

 

[SuperSix]

CS = Customer service?

CS = Counter strike?

CS = Cheese stix?

 

[dyqith]

is it just me or does it seem like regular CS guys can't find jobs anymore?

i'm a fresh in college studying Computer Science and Engineering... it seems like its harder and harder for comp. sci ppl to find jobs... except as Q&amp;A unlesss you have a lot of experience/references from profs...

me thinks me will try to learn two computer fields: programming and networking just to balance things out...

 

[Isocene]

You might need something else to set you apart from other people. Myself, Im studying Japanese and got a Japanese related internship for the summer at a big company.

 

[Doctorweir]

Studied CS and no job? WTF? I thought everyone is desperately searching for such people...?
Move to another country...

 

[DDCSpeed]

japanese girls are wild.......lucky you

 

[whizbang]

Clinton accepted bribes from consortium of large companies to open up 500,000 H1 Visas cuz the companies whined there was nobody to fill the positions (really they just wanted to save the expense of looking and flood the market to drive down salaries). People from India can retire there after earning about 1/3 of a normal IT salary for 5 years. Now that companies are scaling back, who do you think gets the jobs? You, or the Indian indentured servant who will work for 1/3 your salary? Should be no surprise why you can't find a job. You have to pay U.S. taxes and deal with the U.S. cost of living meaning you are not willing to work for peanuts.

 

[Noirish]

you can't find a job w/ cs.
you have to find a job w/ applied math
cs was my first choice but cal is just so damn competitive.
anyway, i'm still a programmer and i'm in a startup which is going strong.
we'll be having an incredible ipo not many can match.

 

[Aenygma]

They have degrees for Counter Strike now?

 

[Cybermastif]

Sadly enough I am a BOFH with a CS degree. (Welll sadly for the poor saps I wake at 0300hrs..lmfao!) I graduated last winter, and have been in this position for over three years. I have been looking since I graduated for another position to no avail. I am seeking for a Jr. SA position, but as there have been zip responses to my resumes.....

what's worse is that not only have there been less jobs out there, unless you want to code, since the .com death keel started ringing it is now to the point that major companies like EDS are laying off. They were my best hope and now......

Good luck....

 

[Goldfish]

I'm glad I'm getting all this before I'm out of high school, a Senior next year. From what I've heard from people I know, getting CS major is pretty much useless now. Therefore, I plan on majoring in Business Administration and double minoring in CS and some other computer related field.

 

[Soybomb]

Gee thanks for scaring me people

 

[bonkers325]

thank god i took MBS

 

[br0wn]

For excellent students, you will still have a lot of job offers.
I had at least 5 job offers 2-3 months ago. However, I decided to go to
grad school.

 

[Isocene]

dd