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My Parent doesn't want me doing CS, or CE, because they feel the job market will disappear come 7 years. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by aunchers@lemmy.world to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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Basically Title.
I love CS, I love designing systems, programming, some cyber and math.
The problem is, I am due to admit into CS this year (4 year program). My Parent's will be funding a majority of it (~2 years, + RESP). And one of my parents, thinks CS won't have many jobs come 7 years?
Why? Because AI will take them all (or is more likely to take them all). That AI is expanding at a rapid pace, and they will slowly but surely take the hardware designing jobs, the programming jobs, and pretty much all the jobs except the administration ones. I have a poor time putting into words what I would like to do in the future (cause I love lots of things related to CS) but I say thing a bit on the technical side, and this parent says that if I cant explain it to them than I don't understand it and that they understand (more to me) what will happen to the market due to their age

I am not saying they're wrong to any of this by the way, I'm just looking for advice on if they're right, and if not, why?

I don't think I'll ever give up doing CS because its something I love with all my heart.
But if I'm not able to convince them, they want me to take a gap and get a different degree (in a less likely to be taken job).
I might be rambling here, but I am genuinely soooo lost.

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish people would stop treating college like job training. Study what you're most passionate about and interested in. Study whatever you would not regret studying, even if you never got a job related to that thing. Without "networking" I do think it will be very hard to find your first job related to CS for the foreseeable future (it's been like that before as well).

[–] charokol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It would be nice to live in a world where most people’s entire quality of life wasn’t dependent on the job they get out of college