Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What? I’m working in IT and am a member of ver.di. Of course it’s an IT union.

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  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They never emailed me back to my question. But good to hear. Is there a specific subsection that i should message?

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    • hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Try this page: ikt.verdi.de

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Computer science is not IT. IT is about knowing how to use, deploy, and administer existing software solutions, along with a bit of light development to get things to work together when they aren’t necessarily directly compatible.

  CS is about creating software solutions and understanding how the pieces fit together (at a low level), as well as how to evaluate algorithms and approach problem solving.

  It’s not even coding, though coding is obviously involved. For a coding class, they’ll teach you the language and give problems to help learn that language. For CS classes, they might not care what language you use, or they might tell you to use specific ones and expect you to learn it on your own time. The languages are just tools through which you learn the CS concepts.

  An IT professional might know about kernel features and how they relate to overall performance. A coder might be aware that there is a kernel doing OS stuff under the hood. A computer scientist might know the specifics of various parts of what a kernel does and how one is implemented, perhaps they’ve even implemented one themselves for a class (I have, though I was personally interested in that kind of thing and it was for a class notorious for being difficult, so most grads didn’t).

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Computer science is not IT.

    ooof got some bad news for you there.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Guessing you mean in a similar vein to the connection between various degrees and food service jobs?

      Personally, I’ve been able to avoid IT jobs so far.

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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        IT as in information technology is a stupid broad category, and the only people who say otherwise are just trying to not be painted as in IT.

        Network engineer, IT. Software Dev, IT. Program manager for that big roll out, still IT. Call center meat in a seat, IT.

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My employer considers developers, infra, SRE, PC Support, even QA all to be part of the “IT department”. I’ve always used the term “IT” to just cover any specifically “tech” sort of function. As opposed to, say, finance, sales, HR, operations, etc.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s a couple in Norway for engineering / it industry NITO and Tekna

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  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would you happen to know of any for germany?

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No idea!

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