Re:Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, wil...
by jahsome on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:42PM
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I think you're spot on.
I have a journalism + mass communications bachelor's, but only because I dropped out of the CS program -- too much math. Once I had mouths to feed, I couldn't make it work financially as a journalist, so I started freelance in software and my career has grown from there.
The communication skills, and more critically, the understanding of how information is gathered and disseminated in groups (i.e. mass comms) is by far my biggest strength. That foundational understanding has served my career far more than any of the programming classes I took before switching majors.
I have a journalism + mass communications bachelor's, but only because I dropped out of the CS program -- too much math. Once I had mouths to feed, I couldn't make it work financially as a journalist, so I started freelance in software and my career has grown from there.
The communication skills, and more critically, the understanding of how information is gathered and disseminated in groups (i.e. mass comms) is by far my biggest strength. That foundational understanding has served my career far more than any of the programming classes I took before switching majors.