What's a "stereotypical coding job"? I didn't know such a thing existed..
Working in a 3 person startup in a loft is very different from Fortune 100 IT dept, different still from writing code in a research lab, or freelancing, or out in the "field" in remote places, or programming lathes and CNCs on a machine shop floor. I know people who started with CS degrees doing all of these things.
Since you're still in college, I'd suggest you just finish your degree and try a bunch of different challenges. If you love coding, you'll find a place where you fit in.
I think I had one fresh out of college... It was a Windows shop where everyone was expected to spend the day in Visual C++ and never stop typing in code from 9 to 5 (with small breaks allowed for lunch and pointless meetings). Googling things or reading slashdot was more or less culturally forbidden. Collaboration was subtly punished in the sense that if you spent too much time at someone else's cube discussing a problem, the manager would interrupt and assume we weren't working and were just screwing around.
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What's a "stereotypical coding job"? I didn't know such a thing existed..
Working in a 3 person startup in a loft is very different from Fortune 100 IT dept, different still from writing code in a research lab, or freelancing, or out in the "field" in remote places, or programming lathes and CNCs on a machine shop floor. I know people who started with CS degrees doing all of these things.
Since you're still in college, I'd suggest you just finish your degree and try a bunch of different challenges. If you love coding, you'll find a place where you fit in.
I think I had one fresh out of college... It was a Windows shop where everyone was expected to spend the day in Visual C++ and never stop typing in code from 9 to 5 (with small breaks allowed for lunch and pointless meetings). Googling things or reading slashdot was more or less culturally forbidden. Collaboration was subtly punished in the sense that if you spent too much time at someone else's cube discussing a problem, the manager would interrupt and assume we weren't working and were just screwing around.