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Statistically speaking, if you want to make money, go to tech. 
Not everything is measured in financial success and you can have an amazingly fulfilling life doing important things to society like being a teacher or a social worker. But it is really hard to make a decent living doing those types of things.
People don't understand how the world works when it comes to such things. A career in tech is not suitable for everyone just like becoming a doctor or teacher is not suitable for everyone. You need certain inclinations/talents. >

No, you don’t need talent. You do need desire >

Clearly not. Only the lowly English major needs to know the definition of words. >

The real success is to be good in a domain you like. >

People post what they know, comp sci has more access to Reddit throughout the day so you get more Comp Sci people posting their experiences. It's nothing more than that. >

I'm in tech and I'd love to leave it for something else. I've grown to hate it. I was thinking the other day what else I could possibly do to make ends meet. I think I'd have to drastically cut back on everything, or start my own business, or go back to school for some sort of medical degree. >

same. A cage with golden bars. >

A 100%, What I hate the most is if your tech job sucks.. these days the only change you make is for 1 money or 2 new team. the job it self remains mostly the same.. Which makes finding a new job super hard as you know you will not be happy in the long run and change job again.. repeat untill retirement... :( >

that's exactly the situation I am in. I know I hate my job and want to quit, but then I think: to do what? all other job prospects would be more of the same >

Welcome to the club man.. 🎉 At Least recruiters leave you alone in this field right?  RIGHT? >

As a software engineer, I actually advice people/new high school grad the opposite way lol. if you’re not really passionate about big chunks of math and hours of automating/programming things + another hours of searching for solutions to errors, this isn’t really your stuff and you will not be successful lol.
Programming is truly very boring. I just don’t understand how I’m able to keep doing this for years now. I like to advice people to a much more “ social “ subject if they’re not willing to pit up with this. Most people just didn’t listen to me, thought it’s cool and easy to code, 90% ended up switching majors lol. >

I don't know, I find programming pretty entertaining compared to other tasks. But not everyone will feel the same way obviously, and that's fine. But I think you're selling programming quite short here, it can be pretty damn satisfying, haha. >

Oh it is if it runs first time without any segmentation fault errors 😀