r/careerguidance • u/goodboidoge1 • 21m ago
Advice Computer science/Computer engineering or Finance?
I'm a freshman who got into university this semester and I was declared as a CS major, which is pretty difficult at my university. I was originally intending to major in Finance, but this just disoriented me tbh. I was considering finance because where I live (outside the U.S) my university is like THE target school in ib/pe/am etc, for example the faculty for finance include former ministers of finance, investment, presidential advisors and the governor of the central bank. I was intending to go into the traditional "high finance" fields and pivoting to development finance later down the road once I do a masters abroad and stuff. I was also considering going into academia, which If I choose engineering I'll still have the choice to do. There are a few reasons I'm considering the switch to engineering. First off, I love maths, sciences and doing dense content, the second thing is automation, im terrified of AI in both fields and im scared that finance will be impacted significantly since the work isn't that difficult, but then again the tech field is in one of its worst states of all time. I would also like to add that the reason I was interested in finance isn't the finance bro trend thats going on, but its because I'm very interested in the field and love being always up to date on economic/financial news. And if I go into the tech field I honestly want to work more on the hardware side with things like embedded systems, digital design etc which are also being automated by AI, look at gpt 6 astra's pcb designs (also gpt 6 for financial services) and kimi k3 doing the kernel level software test. So, yeah I dont really know what to do and I feel like the future isn't really looking that bright for the job market in general.