Pretty much no other engineering field made sense to go into for about a decade....

WarmWash 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI is removing the middle class of software engine...

Pretty much no other engineering field made sense to go into for about a decade. Even kids who did go EE, Mech E, or even Chem E ended up taking software jobs. The pay, benefits, and work/life balance of SWE just absolutely obliterates everything else. Or did at least

no_input 59 days ago [–]

Exactly this. Went into physics but the academic landscape is hell so shipped off to SWE.