If you aren’t becoming a SWE you are probably waisting your time
It has been discussed on here before but if you aren’t making every attempt possible to become a software engineer, the amount of money and work/life balance you are forfeiting is going to far outweigh any other opportunity you’re pursuing.
If you’re in college, there is a good chance you should switch majors or at least figure out how to increase your chances of landing a dev job. (Maybe something like BIT?)
As someone who attempted to become a SWE for a few years now and failed miserably I have to say it is gut wrenching to see most people around me making absurds amount of money while I’m still stuck in the learning phase. But I hope that will chance soon.
If you can live knowing you have the opportunity to easily make well over 6 figures and work from anywhere but decide to do something else, power to you. I genuinely hope that in 10 years you have that same mentality but there’s a good chance you won’t.
TLDR: investing the majority of your time and money into becoming a software engineer provides the greatest return on money and work/life balance by an almost unfathomable margin.
If you’re in college, there is a good chance you should switch majors or at least figure out how to increase your chances of landing a dev job. (Maybe something like BIT?)
As someone who attempted to become a SWE for a few years now and failed miserably I have to say it is gut wrenching to see most people around me making absurds amount of money while I’m still stuck in the learning phase. But I hope that will chance soon.
If you can live knowing you have the opportunity to easily make well over 6 figures and work from anywhere but decide to do something else, power to you. I genuinely hope that in 10 years you have that same mentality but there’s a good chance you won’t.
TLDR: investing the majority of your time and money into becoming a software engineer provides the greatest return on money and work/life balance by an almost unfathomable margin.