growing jobs fields

By admin, December 8, 2009 7:22 pm

is software engineering a competitive and growing field these days?

is software engineering a competitive and growing field these days and can you find a lot of job opportunities in it

uh, well… yes and no. Yes there are a lot of jobs out there for software engineers, but no it’s not much of a growing field. It suffered it’s biggest growth spurt in the late 90s and then when the dot-com bubble popped, a lot of those guys got laid off, so now you can find software engineers managing your local Starbucks or Radio Shack. If you get independant licensure and insurance as a consultant, there’s money to be made, but there is more competition than there are opportunities.

If you can get into an ivy league school, then you should go into the very high-tech cutting edge stuff like nanotech or biocomputation. Then you’ll have it made. But if you’re just going to a public university and majoring in computer sci, you should really work at being an outstanding student and get internships wherever possible, and you’ll find a niche I’m sure.

But if you RPG your way through college and become one of these dopey-heads who comes into work unshaven wearing sandles who can only remember bong hits from college, then you’ll be weeded out hella-quick. This cartoon should explain what being a slacker software engineer is like:

http://www.oddtodd.com/index2.html

Have fun and work hard!

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