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My father while I was tinkering in the workshop :
"You see, I think you chose the wrong studies, you would have liked something else like material science a lot more."
At this moment my face took a question mark shape.
"Wait.. What? I mean... You know, I quit mechanical engineering to computer science, I actually made this decision because I thought it was better for me."
Him :
"But you will never have a good job in it. Material science for example is the booming industry, it's the future."
"What the... No, just no. Every year at my university several mechanical engineering students get thrown out because they can't even find an internship. Whereas most CS students find more than one and end up sharing job offers with their friends. And talk about an interesting job, in the mechanical domain everything already exists and it's just a matter of applying the same boring standards over and over again, when it's not just pure technician managing. In CS new technologies and tools appear regularly, keeping it interesting because evolution is hardly limited by real life physics, just by one's brain."

Pissed me off.

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  • 17
    My father while i was coding on the couch: I really hoped you'd become a doctor
  • 12
    I seriously hate the idea of: "this X thing is popular right now, you could really make a lot of money if you studied in X domain instead of Y".

    Is it really that hard for some people to understand that it's possible to study in something your are passionate about and not just doing it for the money 😐
  • 8
    My father when he sees me coding asks, when are you going to build one of those million dollar apps?
  • 1
    @Sach17 hopefully soon ;.;
  • 0
    Not to offend anyone, but am I the only one here who has a dad that is kind of a best friend as well and also supports and tells to "follow your dreams, guts and what you like"?
  • 1
    @DRHAX34 My mother's like that fortunately
  • 1
    @theScientist Oh. Would've?
  • 1
    @theScientist Oh, that's sad to hear.
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