In hindsight I would have been much happier, healthier and wealthier if I had just gotten a construction job or something after HS instead of torturing myself through a CS degree lmao
I’ve grown up doing hard manual labor most of my free time and let me tell ya, I vastly prefer that over taking exams and being stressed 24/7 for years.
In hindsight I would have been much happier, healthier and wealthier if I had just gotten a construction job or something after HS instead of torturing myself through a CS degree lmao
Having worked construction for a few years before getting my IT degree:
[X] Doubt
Yep. Was a welder, now a software dev. There are pros and cons to both, but overall I’m way happier now.
That said, this is anecdotal - different strokes and all that.
I’ve grown up doing hard manual labor most of my free time and let me tell ya, I vastly prefer that over taking exams and being stressed 24/7 for years.
It’d be nice if we didn’t have to pigeon-hole ourselves into one skillset in order to survive.
But think of the shareholders!
Classic case of grass is greener on the other side.
Yep. The grass is greenest where you water it.