First got into programming with FIRST Robotics in high school. Did some game stuff as well at the very beginning but never really stuck with it all.
Went to uni for Aeronautical Engineering. Switched to CS for all the wrong reasons. I'm in the camp that if you're going to be doing what "most" software engineering is, you absolutely do not need a CS degree. You'd be better off with Electrical or Computer Engineering (if you're gonna get a degree at all). They open up way more doors than they close by not being CS (dumb example but: EE/CompE masters with a CS bachelors is a v tough thing to manage, much more doable the other way around).
First paid work was an internship I got through a career fair doing web-development which I absolutely hated.
I'm a vulnerability engineer currently. Not what I want to be doing long-term, but certainly a lot closer to it. Still making up for mistakes I made when I was 18 smh
Went to uni for Aeronautical Engineering. Switched to CS for all the wrong reasons. I'm in the camp that if you're going to be doing what "most" software engineering is, you absolutely do not need a CS degree. You'd be better off with Electrical or Computer Engineering (if you're gonna get a degree at all). They open up way more doors than they close by not being CS (dumb example but: EE/CompE masters with a CS bachelors is a v tough thing to manage, much more doable the other way around).
First paid work was an internship I got through a career fair doing web-development which I absolutely hated.
I'm a vulnerability engineer currently. Not what I want to be doing long-term, but certainly a lot closer to it. Still making up for mistakes I made when I was 18 smh