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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is not interested in nursing or healthcare which is a stable descent paying career to have  a middle class life .

She wants to be a software engineer or a data scientist but is tech oversaturated now ?  Also I have family members working in tech who have been laid off , and it took them months to find a job . Also outside of FAANG tech isn't as lucrative .[/quote]

We have seven family members in tech, immediate or in-laws, age 33 to 54, from microsoft down to less known niche companies. They all graduated from known engineering or CS programs(CMU, GT, Penn (Seas), Princeton, Hopkins) for undergrad,MS/phD or both. All have masters or phD. Two founded companies and sold them to bigger companies. Two were in academia for part of their career. They all have done very well and are in positions that are not replaceable by AI because they are in thinking and designing roles. Most of them Even their starting jobs were not "entry level": most started companies or came out of top grad programs. Tech roles at the entry level for mid-range bachelors degrees are the ones being laid off now: they have skills that are replaceable. They were in demand 3-4 years ago but their skills are basic, they are not thinkers and problem-solvers and they do not adapt to changes. 
We have discussed engineering and tech in detail with the ones who taught for a significant part of their career and those who have been involved in hiring in industry. Most of them worked through the rough dot-com bust in the early 2000s, when many were laid off but the smartest and most adaptable rallied into great tech careers. Their advice is pick the most challenging school where you will be pushed by peers and where the professors are known entities in the field thus have contacts at other top schools. They gave us a list of the basic target schools in tech that get you a small leg up in getting a second look. Take the hard classes, do not settle for the minimum, and network with grad students and professors. All tech jobs are not created equal: the lucrative and personally rewarding ones tend to be startups or R&D. They also happen to be the lease likely to be replaced by AI.[/quote]

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