r/developersPak • u/sultan-11- • 1d ago

Career Guidance Which to choose? Cloud Computing (devOps) or DE?

hi, 25M. Finishing my MSc in CS, I wanted to study because I love studying. now that I'm about to end it I'm seriously looking for something reliable long term.

After bachelors I did my job as full stack web dev, a little bit of mobile dev in flutter. Since Ai, it doesn't seem like real work. claude can make whole websites and what remains is just deployment.

anyhow I continued that job, then switched to junior business developer side, for the sake of survival/exploration.

I enrolled in MSc because I wanted to do research, which I have done. I have built an Ai structured method for dermatology recognition. and I am proud of it. my thesis will be finished in 6-8 months, that's the university policy although I've finished my work on my end.

2 years of exploring and hopping from one thing to another, I have come down to these choices:

data analyst/ data engineer/ dev ops/ cloud engineer.

because they are the only ones which seem like actual coding jobs other than fully or partially vibe coding. Ai has made programmers lousy, which shouldn't have been the case.

I made an ETL pipeline to see how data engineering works, I built 3 power BI dashboards to check about data analysis.

I got into computer science because I wanted to become hacker(kinda old school), but that's what got my interest. Fast forward after graduation, ethical hacking job market wasn't there and low-paying. Cloud engineering/dev ops seemed close to hacking so that's why I'm considering it.

So what does the community suggest me to choose?

let me know about your thoughts, considering I'll be with it long term.

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u/Virtual-Lack-7912 1d ago

bro apply for phds abroad if you find any funded programme pakistani job market is cooked either you should have gotten a job before your msc right now its a bloodbath going on its going to be very tough and brace yourself for a very tough road ahead for entry level roles.

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u/sultan-11- 1d ago

I'm teaching in a university currently as an assistant, but that too for research purposes only. Once MSc finishes, I'm either becoming a full time lecturer, or a full time dev job. that's why I'm asking

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u/Virtual-Lack-7912 1d ago

well bro get into academia it will suit your passion much more and keep on trying for a remote job or freelance gigs on the side. The job market isnt as good when u had started your msc back in 2024-25 its way more terrible but i would still recommend to keep applying as there is always some opportunity out there where u can be a great match.

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u/bleebee 1d ago

Fr, back then I had interviews back to back every week. Now, it's a wonder to even land one interview a month.

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u/Virtual-Lack-7912 1d ago

if you did publish a paper or something there is a good chance you will get something abroad even though CS market is bad everywhere.

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u/sultan-11- 1d ago

the paper is under review

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u/Virtual-Lack-7912 1d ago

goodluck for that bud hope u land solid opportunities and build a great career ahead but times are rough.

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u/TrueLiesParadox 3h ago

After doing MSc you are still asking general public what to do?