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I think my case toes the line. I graduated in '09 with a BS in Applied Economics, most of my work was statistics/stata oriented. I had planned on going to law s
by shampine 11y ago
I think my case toes the line. I graduated in '09 with a BS in Applied Economics, most of my work was statistics/stata oriented. I had planned on going to law school. Well the floor fell out from under everything the summer before I graduated. What was I to do? No one wanted to hire me, all my work through college was in sysadmin/computer repair work. I was just a generalist and going for more school (MBA or law) didn't guarantee work, just more debt.
It took me two years of rambling around and finally I went back towards what I was always good with, computers. Flash forward 6 years later and I'm a developer who is making a comfortable living. I'm glad I have my degree in econ, I love the field, but I do feel like there is window of us who did get screwed as we made choices on the current economy, not the future economy 4 years later.
- up_and_up 11y ago> most of my work was statistics/stata oriented Your stats background could prob make you a lot of money if you could shift into data science. The stats + programming would be a good fit.
- shampine 11y agoThis is the direction that interests me most and what I will want to be doing in my 30s. Still have a ways to go as I started in the frontend and now I'm doing mostly full stack work.