Comment by JohnMakin
6 days ago
I worked a general public facing job that I will not describe in detail lest I doxx myself, but you can imagine it as basically tourist facing retail. I did this for 10+ years. I was already deeply cynical by the time I went to school for CS, and yes, it was for money, and I still prefer it to the alternatives.
The world of menial jobs is absolutely miserable, depressing, and will grind you to a pulp - it's nearly impossible to get out of, by design.
It's perfectly ok to study CS for money. My point is that the job market in general doesn't really care about all this technical specialization, despite them signaling this over and over with CS degrees and technical interviews. At the end of the day all careers have to do with making more profit for the business, not specializing in some skill.