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Comment on Ask HN: CS major who doesn't want to code. Am I in the wrong major?parent

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That is my problem mostly. I love coding and do it for fun. Its just that I can't convince myself to get a desk job where I stare a monitor from 9 to 5.

To be honest, most (professional) jobs nowadays require staring at a monitor 9-5.

HAHA

My hair is still wet from finally getting a shower today at 240 pm...

CS is the BEST ticket to get a job that's NOT staring at a monitor from 9-5. If you're willing to do sales, you'll be flying around the country (or at least driving), doing installs, and possibly earning commissions.

If you're willing to do entrepreneurial things, you'll be staring for 10-15 hours a day, definitely not 9-5, then be checking in and on the phone most of the time after you get something moving, but definitely won't be 9-5ing it.

Additionally, for many branches of development, if you prove you deliver, you get some ridiculously flexible schedules by the standards of any other field.

Then you're mistakenly saying you don't want a coding job, when you don't want a typical 9-5.

You should edit your OP to include this snippet. There's a big difference between "I don't want a coding job, and I don't like coding" and, "I love coding, but I don't want a coding job."

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