SpecialSnowflake
New member
- Joined
- May 10, 2015
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- 6
- MBTI Type
- INFP
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- 4w3
Hello, all.
I'm currently a student who ended up studying computer science in college. Reasons? Not fantastic, but not all that bad either:
(1) I apparently have a certain aptitude for the stuff.
(2) My professor was big on encouraging women to join the CS department.
(3) Many people supported me in doing it, because job security and high wages and stuff.
(4) The budding feminist in me thought maybe it was my responsibility if I could do it to do it. (No, I don't think that necessarily anymore.)
There's a great big part of me that wishes I hadn't wandered down this road, but this is my final term and I'm making it, even if I'm grumbling through it all. Graduation is looming now, and the "smart thing to do" now is to start looking for work... if not for myself, then at least for the sake of appeasing the million people asking me what's next.
So I figure I have a few options:
(1) Abandon my degree and learn how to make coffee.
(2) Find a tech job that is more friendly to INFP / type 4 personalities. (Not entirely sure what that'd be; I want to hear from you!)
(3) Curl up in a ball and keep watching Netflix and crying because quarter-life-crisising is hard.
I'd love to hear about the experiences of people who are similar to me (INFP / 4) in STEM fields, or from those who found their niche in a different area after having heavily considered STEM careers. What drove you in choosing your career and are you happy with your choices?
I'm currently a student who ended up studying computer science in college. Reasons? Not fantastic, but not all that bad either:
(1) I apparently have a certain aptitude for the stuff.
(2) My professor was big on encouraging women to join the CS department.
(3) Many people supported me in doing it, because job security and high wages and stuff.
(4) The budding feminist in me thought maybe it was my responsibility if I could do it to do it. (No, I don't think that necessarily anymore.)
There's a great big part of me that wishes I hadn't wandered down this road, but this is my final term and I'm making it, even if I'm grumbling through it all. Graduation is looming now, and the "smart thing to do" now is to start looking for work... if not for myself, then at least for the sake of appeasing the million people asking me what's next.
So I figure I have a few options:
(1) Abandon my degree and learn how to make coffee.
(2) Find a tech job that is more friendly to INFP / type 4 personalities. (Not entirely sure what that'd be; I want to hear from you!)
(3) Curl up in a ball and keep watching Netflix and crying because quarter-life-crisising is hard.
I'd love to hear about the experiences of people who are similar to me (INFP / 4) in STEM fields, or from those who found their niche in a different area after having heavily considered STEM careers. What drove you in choosing your career and are you happy with your choices?