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I want to persue a degree in IT, because of the ability to work from home and less time interacting with people, as I am introverted (INTP personality). Along with a great salary and career prospects, this seems like a rewarding field to be in.

What field in IT would you reccomend and why? Also, what major for BSc Computer Science would you reccomend between:
- General Computer Science
- Computer Systems
- Data Science
- Computer Science with Genetics as seccond major
- Computer Science with Geographical Information Technology as majorScreenshot_20220411-165940_Chrome.jpg
 
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Herr der Verboten said:
Next life I will be avoiding IT. a Lot less users and other things to deal with.

That said any interests in IT you have?
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I have little experience between different IT fields, but Cyber security seems like a interesting field to me. I like working with computers in general, and coding stuff. I prefer a field with the least amount of people interaction.
 
21yearoldinvestor said:
I want to persue a degree in IT, because of the ability to work from home and less time interacting with people, as I am introverted (INTP personality). Along with a great salary and career prospects, this seems like a rewarding field to be in.

What field in IT would you reccomend and why? Also, what major for BSc Computor Science would you reccomend between:
- General Computor Science
- Computor Systems
- Data Science
- Computor Science with Genetics as seccond major
- Computor Science with Geographical Information Technology as major
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No-one can tell you what to study, its like asking a forum what food should I order at a restaurant, there will be 100s of answers
based purely on those peoples own experiences and desires.

Saying that all of the IT fields are doing well, pick one that speaks to your own skills.
Data science is highly mathematical, if you love statistics go do that - Google just released a coursera course that gives you a taste of what its like
Machine Learning is a buzz topic as well, highly mathematical
If you love physics and science, Gaming or Electronics will be your industry with focus on Computer science and algorithms.
If your a creative type then front end, phone apps, and web development could be interesting.
If you enjoy mysteries and finding answers, data analytics is not as hectic in algorithms as CS but still crucially important
If lower level understanding of computers is interesting, cyber security or network administration is there.
IT Manager is sometimes attained through business skills or project management skills and very little to do with programming or maths

It all depends where your other interests/skills lie, maths, science, business, people, etc

Buy yourself a few courses on Udemy (they cost something like $15 each on special), try out each one and see what you prefer...
 
I'm going to have to be a bit blunt, but IT has a lot of human interaction.

Projects need to be planned, it needs to be sized, daily/weekly sessions to make sure you're on track, demo's, mentoring, all those fun things.

More often than not, it needs to be integrated into existing software/front/end/backend (depending on the type of IT) As a dev, I can safely say that 5-6 of my 8 hours per day is human interaction and about 2-3 hours is me actually working alone.

Cybersecurity is different to dev, but you also need to communicate with various departments, also do projects, if your policies break a dev server, you have 15 angry devs shouting at you.

For example, my employer recently revoked our admin rights to comply to some standard, and it broke various things for various people.

The poor cybersecurity/platform team had endless devs and other people shouting at them for 3 days cause the devs can't work, and IT needs to "fix it" (Obviously this is exaggerated, but you get the point.)


TL;DR It takes a lot of different people with various skillets all working together to succeed. It's not an 8-hour alone in front of your pc type of job at all.

If you want as little human interaction as possible, consider working or AVBOB or Martin's :thumbsup:
 
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21yearoldinvestor said:
I want to persue a degree in IT, because of the ability to work from home and less time interacting with people, as I am introverted (INTP personality). Along with a great salary and career prospects, this seems like a rewarding field to be in.

What field in IT would you reccomend and why? Also, what major for BSc Computor Science would you reccomend between:
- General Computor Science
- Computor Systems
- Data Science
- Computor Science with Genetics as seccond major
- Computor Science with Geographical Information Technology as majorView attachment 1287998
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doesnt work like this in the real world
 
Don’t chase the career that you think is the most money (most of that chart is bullshit or will only make sense with 15 years experience).

Chase the one you can actually see yourself doing every day for those 15+ years.

Also, before you go chasing down careers in computers learn to pay more attention to detail and spell better.

A 21 year old shouldn’t be making the most basic mistakes as contained in your post and if any of those showed up on your CV it would be discarded.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Don’t chase the career that you think is the most money (most of that chart is bullshit or will only make sense with 15 years experience).

Chase the one you can actually see yourself doing every day for those 15+ years.

Also, before you go chasing down careers in computers learn to pay more attention to detail and spell better.

A 21 year old shouldn’t be making the most basic mistakes as contained in your post and if any of those showed up on your CV it would be discarded.
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Noted. Thank you for your response.
 
21yearoldinvestor said:
I want to persue a degree in IT, because of the ability to work from home and less time interacting with people, as I am introverted (INTP personality). Along with a great salary and career prospects, this seems like a rewarding field to be in.

What field in IT would you reccomend and why? Also, what major for BSc Computor Science would you reccomend between:
- General Computor Science
- Computor Systems
- Data Science
- Computor Science with Genetics as seccond major
- Computor Science with Geographical Information Technology as majorView attachment 1287998
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As others have noted, much depends on your interests, and doing something outside of your inclinations may not work out (I also want to add that in some cases, doing things outside ones inclinations are exactly what’s need - it depends on whether your decisions are informed or not).

Generally speaking, I have found the optimal study level and subject material to be a double major in computer science, and one of maths, applied maths or statistics. Also try do one of the remaining two to 2nd year level.

After your BSc, I highly recommend an honours degree (my suggestion is CS with a few more maths modules) for overseas equivalency.

While I will say that I don’t know a whole lot of people who got into the places where I work for the money, the highest paying path right now is US Big Tech, surpassed only by the more exclusive companies in finance.
 
dont pick a career because it "pays" or because you get to stay at home or dont have to work with people.
Read up on what the work is actually like, then find someone and speak to them for a while and make a decision based on that. What people think a job is like and what it actually is like is often very very different.

You will almost always have to interact with people and on most of those "high" salary jobs you posted, you will be dealing with people almost all the time. If you think working at home removes interaction you are in for an awful experience, death by constant meeting is a real thing and it is pretty intrusive at times.

I would say the majority of IT jobs now require a fair bit of documentation as well. Be prepared to be writing documents, reading documents or updating documents.
 
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You will almost always have to interact with people and on most of those "high" salary jobs you posted, you will be dealing with people almost all the time. If you think working at home removes interaction you are in for an awful experience, death by constant meeting is a real thing and it is pretty intrusive at times.
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This is the worst. Something that would have been a 3-minute back and forth for the guy sitting behind you now becomes an hour meeting working from home.
 
My advice.

Do some short course first. Get a job and if you like it pursue a degree.

Cloud DevOps is currently in great demand and might be the easiest to get qualified in with AWS or Azure certification.
 
Messugga said:
Just an observation - the jobs with the salaries you posted are virtually all leadership/management positions or at the least have a large element of human interaction.
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Agree, my job title is also on above list and at this level I rely on people that are more technical experienced than I am to do the work while what helps for me is common sense and EQ.
 
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GrootVoet said:
Agree, my job title is also on above list and at this level I rely on people that are must more technical experienced than I am to do the work while what helps me is common sense and EQ.
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Very interesting. Thank you very much for your response.
 
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