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I'm happy to see some of the examples here are of bad advice. The worst, specific piece of advice I received was when I was choosing a major in my senior year

I'm happy to see some of the examples here are of bad advice. The worst, specific piece of advice I received was when I was choosing a major in my senior year of HS, which informed where I went to college. For some paths like engineering you need to know before you matriculate at some schools. The bad advice which was handed out in 2001, was that CS as a career had peaked and all those jobs created during the dotcom boom would be outsourced, so there was no point in majoring in it anymore. I unfortunately took that advice for a few years, before realizing it was bunk and having to spend extra time in school to enter a career in software.

creakingstairs 4y ago
> The bad advice which was handed out in 2001, was that CS as a career had peaked and all those jobs created during the dotcom boom would be outsourced, so there was no point in majoring in it anymore Hah I got a similar advice. My father even got his friend who graduated with a CS degree to tell me not to get that degree which managed to convince me at the time. I still ended up as an engineer though :)
GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Definitely was solid advice at the time. It was scary times. I knew fellow software developers working at sears, driving buses. It was unreal. It looked like software was dead. Silicon Valley. And offshoring was happening big time. I went to law school, and I was already a software developer. Hard to see the forest when one is in the middle of it.