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What career do you want to pursue in the future? Personally, I would prefer to get into a career that involves working with computers or on projects where I can construct things with my hands. My love for video games, robotics and computers have influenced me to focus in majoring in computer science or engineering. Feeling passionate in focusing in such majors made me wonder what possible careers I could go into after graduating college. There are not many people I know that have major or work in a relative field to my interest. There was, however, one person I knew who worked with computers and with whom I could ask about his experience. The computer teacher at my high school, Mr. George Schmidt. With the help of Mr. Schmidt, I got a little …show more content…

My reasons are similar to that of other students. I believe that by studying in computer science or engineering I would be able to land a well-paid job and be surrounded by the things I love and love to do. Computers, video games, and technology. However, in order to get into a well-paying job I have to make it through the challenges in college. In my interview with Mr. Schmidt I heard his experience from college. Mr. Schmidt has earned a B.S degree in both Math and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign along with a Master of Science in Computer Science. According to Mr. Schmidt, majoring in computer science is challenging. As challenging as it might be the classes do become much simpler the more major related class one takes (Schmidt 2015). It sounds a bit intimidating to hear a teacher say something is tough but I can see why it might become easier afterwards. The more I learn about computer programming the more I would be able to understand …show more content…

IT career opportunities are significantly growing with most opportunities involving programming. Video games, mobile application, and software industries are highly grossing above the average, providing more jobs with the demand for educated and experienced programmers (ITCareerFinder 2012). Mr. Schmidt stated that there will be about 1,000,000,000 IT jobs by 2020 as the industries continue to rise causing the demands for programmers to upsurge too (Schmidt 2015). Many students who love technology wish to land a job at with industries like Microsoft or Google, but working as a programmer is not easy. In my interview with Mr. Schmidt, I learned that programming is a stressful and complex job. Programmers have to spend multiple hours on a computer, working days and nights writing tons of codes and fixing bugs. As a programmer, Mr. Schmidt spends too much time working he barely had time to spend with his family (Schmidt 2015). Since programming is a time consuming job it is considered a perfect for single people who would spend their time working alone or in groups to develop programs,

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