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Non-Programming Jobs For a Computer Science Major?
An anonymous reader writes "I recently graduated from a 'major' university in America with a BS degree in Computer Science. I unfortunately must admit that I am not very skilled with programming. I finished with the degree, and I've spent much of my college career working a job doing technical support (fixing laptops, troubleshooting Windows problems, etc). What jobs can I get with a computer science degree that are NOT mainly programming jobs? A little programming wouldn't be bad, but none would be preferred. And what kind of salaries do these jobs typically fetch?"
And not the right kind of lazy, either.
Just google "hottest IT jobs".
The fact that you need to be "held by the hand" and can't solve a simple problem without guidance does not bode well.
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Well, everyone else has been saying "systems administration" and the only thing I had less of in school than hardware, was OS administration.
I don't know. Lot of people will say, "there is more to CS than programming" but if you can't program, you're going to have problems. It's like being a physicist and not being good at math.
I'd recommend going back to school and tacking on an MBA or something. Or you could go out and get certified in some of the networking stuff, but even there, a good sysadmin is expected to do a decent amount of scripting.
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What's an etceta? Or did you mean et cetera?
We desperately need people who know there way around large data warehouses, can hack some basic SQL and code, and can figure out how to get the data that is locked up by IT into a format that we can use to drive meaningful customer experiences.
Good lord, do you actually use "drive meaningful customer experiences" in your pitch? No wonder you can't find any more qualified people!
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Smarter than sysadmins at any rate.
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Yeah. Making the user or inhabitant happy is absolutely a function of an application or a building! If a building kills the soul of its inhabitants, it's not functional.
A list of top 100 programmers? Where can I see that? I wonder where I'm at, I'm guessing in the high 20s.
Oh, you're not talking about the top 100 programmers after all. You're talking about "influential comp sci people." You do realize that comp sci is a young field, don't you? Most of the profs I had did not study comp sci because it did not exist back when they were studying. So what did they study? Maths, mostly. And then they spent the rest of their lives with comp sci.
So yeah, you don't need to study comp sci. You can also study maths and then spend the rest of your life with comp sci. Eventually, you'll get to the same level of expertise which comp sci students were at after four years of university.
I guess there's nothing wrong with focussing on programming, but that doesn't mean that you can ignore the remaining topics, like theoretical informatics, chip design, security and perhaps even things like project management.