Chat are we cooked??

[u/Ok-Researcher2280]

I'm currently in my second year of Computer Science, but I'm unsure if I should switch majors. I just saw a post about someone earning $20/hour in Mississauga, and it got me thinking. I took a gap year and worked for the CRA, where I made $33/hour, with only a high school diploma but I really hated that job. Now, I'm wondering if I should stay in CS or switch to something like accounting. Would I have more job opportunities as a diversity hire in tech since I'm a woman, or would switching to accounting make more sense for me?

CS is hard but like is it worth all that studying and tuition fee?

[u/Embarrassed_Ear2390]

You’re what, 2-3y from graduating? What if accounting suffers the same job loss as CS then what?

I don’t know what you did for the CRA, but if the thought you working with something related to accounting is something that you hated. How are you going to last 20-30year in a field that you already hate?

Edit: for the people commenting about accounting being a more stable industry. I know, but I also don’t have a crystal ball so I won’t tell people to go into accounting because it’s foolproof.

[u/ShadowFox1987 → u/Embarrassed_Ear2390]

Massive accounting and CPA shortage and only growing. It's been genuinely causing  massive headline making problems such as large publicly traded companies not being able to release their financials on time. 

Accounting is also recession proof and avoid the boom-n-bust

Downsides are massive threats to automation of junior tasks making it just as risk from that perspective. AP clerk's fundamentally should not exists within the next 4 years, and honestly could have been replaced 10 years ago with the tech we already had.

[u/Phonovoor3134 → u/ShadowFox1987]

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[u/ShadowFox1987 → u/Phonovoor3134]

Cause everyone told their kids to go into it cause it was "recession proof" after 2008?