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Software Engineering (degree and career questions)

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jread

Senior member
Sooooo.....

My planned Master's degree will be in CIS, though I do wish it were less "business-ie" and more "techie". Every single career test I've ever taken has Software Engineering ranked as the #1 career for me. I've seen that one can get into this field with a CIS or a CS degree, but I didn't know there was an actual degree in it. This is cool because I definitely have found a love for development/programming.

After searching around, I found that Texas Tech. has a M.S. in Software Engineering that can be done entirely by distance education. This would be awesome since my fulltime work schedule makes it hard to attend classes.... plus gas prices make driving around a bad thing.

Now, I know we have a few software engineers on this forum, so I'd like to hear your thoughts. I see that it was one of the fastest-growing and the salaries are awesome. Then again, I don't want to be beaten down like a little donkey at some sweatshop.

1. What training did you have to get into the field?

2. How are you liking/disliking it?

3. What is your advice to someone wanting to become a software engineer?

Please discuss 🙂

P.S. Let's not get into the whole "s0ftwarz 3nG1neer1ngz iZ n0t r33L 1njUn33r1nG!!!!111" debate.
 
eh i don't even see 1 question in your original post ... i'm confused 😕

i'm a software engineer and i'm right upon 2 years experience in the real world and i'm currently looking for a new job to get a big pay jump.

2 years experience at a new job > current pay at my entry level starting position after 2 years by a good amount.
 
I guess I should define the question a little better, lol.

How are you liking the field? What are things you *don't* like about it?
 
i like the field. i just wish there wasn't as much "down time" while at work and that i had more stuff to do. i also wish we didn't exclusively use just C++ here (w/this embedded scripting language) because as I'm looking for jobs right now, there are probably 5x more opportunities for people w/2+ years experience in Java than C++. seems that most of the C++ jobs require more experience.
 
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