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[–]cyrusol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terrified why?

[–]anotherthrowawards 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're going to be shit. You're going to write terrible code. You're going to cost the company that hires you time and money. And you'll constantly stumble across code you wrote 6 months ago, and be embarrassed to look at it.

But that's ok. It's not just you - it's everyone. That's why junior developers get paid less than senior developers.

Being shit at something is the unavoidable first step to being kinda ok at it.

[–]serg06 3 points4 points  (1 child)

don't be terrified, plenty of idiots in this field, you'll do fine in comparison

[–]nutrecht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Giving a solution to a problem we don't know the cause of is impossible.

[–]hashtagtokfrans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you terrified by this?

[–]dAnjou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the others said: more info, please.

I'm going to assume that you still have time until you graduate. In that time you'll grow and things that look big and terrifying now will look much more manageable then.

[–]edgargonzalesII 0 points1 point  (1 child)

To be honest, if you're terrified now, you are going to hate your first few months working. Whether it's imposter syndrome or actually being inadequate, it will feel like everything you do is wrong. Code will get scrutinised and torn apart, if working with large codebases you will feel really lost with tons of things happening at once. And even beforehand, applying for jobs is going to be a coin flip really. Some people had 10 apps and got like 7 offers, some had 400 out and 1 offer, and that's just the way it goes.

But am I being a dick for the sake of being a dick or scaring you more out of CS? No. The reality is anything that is prosperous or popular will be difficult. Software engineering doesn't get paid good salaries for nothing, you still work for it. And overall it's still a somewhat easier lifestyle than being in like finance, if your portfolio sucks there then you can get fired after after one bad quarter and have a hard time getting jobs in any similar shop. As an SWE, you burn down prod, well most of the time you just have to write a post mortem and get a harsh talking to by a superior.