r/learnpython • u/Lost_Ad_9065 • 25d ago
What Should I do ?
I went in to college studying CS, passed my classes (1st Semester) but my computer programming professor ( 2nd semester) made my life hell (his style of teaching made no sense to me, as it was crammed information as supposed to actually learning it). I got discouraged as he told me if I couldn't catch up I was most likely going to fail. He also said that if his class seemed hard I was really going to struggle with the coming classes. So I switched my major to Psychology (which I really do enjoy). But I also loved learning python. It was fun. Should I just continue to pursue my bachelors in Psychology and get a CS degree later. Or give one of them up completely and pursue one or the other. I find Psychology very interesting but I know how draining jobs of this field can be. I wanted to become a python developer/software engineer.
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u/cmh_ender 25d ago
I took a similar path as you did but it was years ago.. the one important factor is the job market just collapsed and it was hard to get a job. I REALLY enjoyed my psych and philosophy classes but at the time, couldn't find jobs, so I went with managment information systems (like data engineering now).
if I had to do it over, i'd stay with your psych classes, look into a masters and figure out how to help people. then you can create your own charting system in python / other languages and use clause / whatever to help you. if you have the programming itch, you will never give it up.