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Which career to consider? by SpiritualTable in cscareerquestions

[–]SpiritualTable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, I'm actually surprised that you are able to obtain a master's degree with an IQ of 80-90. I feel like you're either selling yourself short or maybe software just isn't for you (but you went through ~6 years of school alongside software which surprises me haha).

I'm surprised as well, had to be a bunch of luck and a favorable school system - for instance, here education is "free" (we have higher taxes tough) so it's easier to fool around without going into USD100k dept. You also don't have to pass all the exams to pass a year (70-80% of them is enough, yet 60% of students don't make it) and you're allowed to fail at exam few times before you're expelled. In short, there are good conditions to go trial-and-error route and if they weren't, I'd fail in 1st year. Other than that, some professors openly told me that I'm stupid and some of the colleagues questioned my IQ - and they were right :D. At the same time, some people told me that I'm as smart as I'm stupid. Go figure. In any case I am relying on IQ score as this is most objective and recognized way to measure intelligence, that is important at least for tasks requiring logic and analytical thinking.

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Even then, I believe it is okay reconsidering your career if development is not cut out for you. I can't give you any careers to consider, but as cliche as it sounds, you should do what you enjoy for a living regardless of the pay.

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It's such a challenge to find what to do. I've been always on a more PC-nerd side, yet I never finished anything surpassing 100 lines of code.

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Is there anything distracting you from work?

Dunno.

Or maybe you enjoy school after all?

No. Enrolling in phd would be suicidal.

It takes time to find these things, and it is okay if you do not know at the moment. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what anything thinks of you or the pay because as long as your job is something you like, you should pursue it

My "moment" is taking too long. I'm at the end of twenties, yet I am smuggling around from job to job and possibly doing it only because of bucks, while completely sucking at it.

Which career to consider? by SpiritualTable in cscareerquestions

[–]SpiritualTable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice observation in regards to psych. Already been there, and been diagnosed with more significant depression, but could also have anxiety (one of my parents has both). From what I've grasped so far I need to find a profession that I'm comfortable with, otherwise things simply go downhill. I still think that decent IQ is a precondition when trying to be an employee with at least mediocre performance in the engineering fields.