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Pure ignorance. Not all communications majors work at the Gap. Many work in communications, marketing, etc. These high end jobs project higher salaries than
by ssharp 18y ago
Pure ignorance. Not all communications majors work at the Gap. Many work in communications, marketing, etc. These high end jobs project higher salaries than a high end computer science degree.
You can find lots of people with non-vocational degrees that have had extremely successful careers, don't work at the gap, and have more fulfilling works lives than code slaves who "invested" in a CS degree.
- vaksel 18y agoYou can find an example of success no matter the situation. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. But you need to look at the averages. Someone who graduated from an average school and not some Ivy, someone who doesn't have connections thanks to daddy...more often than not, after graduation they'll be working at the Gap.
- adbachman 18y agoYou have numbers to back this up?
- alecco 18y agoI doubt he is right, but I bet he will be right soon :-/
- krschultz 18y agoYou are an idiot if you believe that and will probably always be a CS guy. What does the best programmer make at your company? $200,000? $300,000? So what. Thats pocket change compared to c-level executive pay. The CEO at my company is making $500,000 and he graduated with a communications degree from a college that doesn't even exist any more it was so crappy. What he did do was work his ass off after that for 28 years at the place working from being a salesman, all the way up. You know what would really impeede you from doing that? Telling everyone else in the company you work with that their degree is inferior to yours. Especially when we are talking CS, which I don't think anyone can claim is a difficult degree. Physics, Chemistry, real engineering, those are hard. But just because you call yourself a software engineer and you have a BS in CS, doesn't make you an engineer, so get off the high horse.
- raffi 18y agoI appreciate your rant and I agree with your points. I'm not saying a CS degree is the hardest thing to obtain--it certainly isn't trivial though. Please refrain from attacking an entire field because of a troll.
- krschultz 18y agoIt's not attacking the field, it is a fact. A CS degree is not an engineering degree. That is what a CE degree is. Don't confuse the two. He rants about communications majors stopping math after high school. What does CS require? Calc, discrete, and prob/stat? An engineer degree is going to require 2-3 more classes than that in math. So the sword cuts both ways.
- lacker 18y agoThis really varies from place to place. Many CS degrees are engineering degrees - that's how it works at Berkeley, for example.
- lacker 18y agoIf you don't think CS is a difficult degree, you are talking about something quite different than what I went through.