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    Dan Luu‏ @danluu 7 Nov 2018
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    I wonder how many people were convinced to avoid engineering and CS by these doom and gloom essays that were popular from the 90s until 2010-ish: https://web.archive.org/web/20070314160651/http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/03/why_a_career_in.html …pic.twitter.com/5uWlm0SPw2

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    • ankitkr0🦸‍♂️ B&R Business Solutions Devinda Dharmawarden Cryptarchist Khaled Aly Noor Al-Hajri Jacob Greenleaf Anirudh Gargi Flo Crivello
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      1. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 7 Nov 2018
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        I remember looking to the internet for advice on careers during high school (around '00). There were so many essays by engineers saying that they were warning their own children away from engineering because it was doomed by outsourcing. Go into something stable, like law!

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      2. Alex  🐙 Chiang‏ @chizangiam 7 Nov 2018
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        In early 2000s, the supposedly savvy thing to do was to take your engineering undergrad degree and go into IP law, betting on the derivative rather than the underlying, for job security and wealth.

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      3. Alex  🐙 Chiang‏ @chizangiam 7 Nov 2018
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        My classmates (UIUC '02) who did that are *probably* partners by now, but I bet I had a lot more fun and still have a lot more option value.

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 7 Nov 2018
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        Reporting for duty! Got a CS degree but avoided doing a US job search because *hah* of course there are no programmers between St. Louis and Asia.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 7 Nov 2018
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        Best worst decision of my life was trusting the WSJ that all engineering jobs would move to China or India. (So my countermeasure was learning Japanese and moving to Japan, on the theory that most engineers would not also achieve useful proficiency in both English and Japanese.)

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      1. Austin Zheng‏ @austinzheng 7 Nov 2018
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        I know a bunch of programmers my age who got EE degrees (including me) because of this very same 'conventional wisdom'. (Also always glad to be reminded that programmers talking about stuff they know nothing about is a decades-old tradition now.)

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      2. Bryan Boreham‏ @bboreham 8 Nov 2018
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        In 1983 my mother (who had been a programmer) advised me to steer clear of Computer Science as a degree because it was likely a flash in the pan.

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      3. Tim  ⚡‏ @spodlife 8 Nov 2018
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        @garrybodsworth I avoided a CS degree because it looked boring, and instead did mechanical engineering, which was as much fun as I expected. All my jobs before and since have been software.

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      2. James Tayler‏ @james_s_tayler 8 Nov 2018
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        Maybe they got the salary part wrong but certainly everything you knew from the 1990s except for TCP/IP, HTTP, a bit of HTML/CSS/js, Linux and SQL has completely, completely changed. And it does so every five years. Look at the landscape in the last 5 years. Drastic shift.

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      3. Daniel Gibson‏ @Doomed_Daniel 8 Nov 2018
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        and C, C++ and .. But in the end: who cares? So you gotta keep learning after finishing university, what's the problem with that? And is that really any different for doctors or lawyers? Aren't there new medical findings/treatments/equipment all the time? And new laws?

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