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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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[–] CTDummy@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

What degree would you get if not CS? Are there other areas in tertiary education that you’re passionate about? The fact is, in my mind, this boils down to your parent attempting to make a major life decision for you based on something they aren’t necessarily qualified to know (are they in CS/AI?). Would you be cool working a field you don’t like for the remainder of your life based on that?

AI will at least disrupt the sector long term somewhat I think but as someone working in networking (non-CS grad, for now) who uses it somewhat for my job, I’m less than impressed. I get people have vibe coded neat projects with it but of the 4 main AIs I used, only one gave me half acceptable results for a small web applet of pretty small scope written in js. If I had to put it in production, get it useable and secure enough for others to use? Forget it. Now if I had a CS degree or at least more experience with C++, I could maybe get something half useable done.

People shit on AI, for good reason, it has its uses imo but I’m still doubtful the singularity is just around the corner that tech bros are trying to convince everyone of in order to sell their wares.

Also, go to your prospective uni, go to the CS/Electrical Engineering faculty and ask to talk to an advisor and ask these questions of them. Most unis also have future student/career advising services.