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I go to a top ten school where I am studying computer science and at the moment a second major in math. I can pretty much see my future right now, and I don't really like it. Like everyone else around me I'll probably go into SWE or (more likely with a math background) finance, as is extremely popular at my college. While these jobs do interest me, I don't really want to be a SWE day-to-day. I really like making things and while I always have really enjoy programming, I'd like to use it as more of a tool to solve problems that I find interesting, not really for developing large software. I think a job as a quant or something at a finance firm would be interesting, but they're incredibly competitive. I don't really see myself going to grad school, and I don't really consider academia an option. I don't exactly know what an answer to this question looks like but, what realistic career paths are there for someone like me? I'd really like to consider starting my own business / being self-employed but I'm not sure how realistic this is. Are there any books, resources you'd recommend?

TLDR: what career options besides finance and software engineering do I have as a cs major?

Thanks!

Anyone have any advice on how to find ways to get side projects going that might generate a little bit of revenue? I've got the skills to do it I think, I just seem to have no viable ideas. Thanks.

I'm a self-taught programmer, currently in college and I'd really like to have a side-project to devote some of my free time towards but I seem to be going through a long period where none of my ideas interest me. Any recommendations for a problem that you think might be worth tackling?

I am going to college in the US in September as an international student but my school year finished in January. I have about 8 more months of doing nothing on my hands and had thought about learning C or C++ just because I have always heard that they give you a good base knowledge of how other languages work under the hood. I would say I'm fluent in Java, Swift and Python.

Do you have any recommendations for which one I should tackle (or neither)? If you had a good resource to help me learn as someone who isn't a beginner, that would also be great too. Thanks.

I recently read American Kingping by Nick Bilton and I thought it was really good. It’s about the founder of the Silk Road and how the FBI tracked him down.

Can you recommend any similiar novels?

I made this app for the iPhone and iOS 11. It uses a deep learning model to guess what a user is drawing onscreen. I thought it was a cool idea because it showcases the huge strides deep learning has made in the past few years. Go and check it out if you have an iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-ai/id1272256639?ls=1&mt...

I am very interested in ML and am looking into tutorials etc. In the meantime, however, I have an idea for an application that would analyse and detect basic images (don't want to give it away of course ;)). So I was wondering if there are any untrained models that I could train with my own dataset (I have an absolutely massive training dataset available so that isn't an issue) or some kind of tutorial/s that could get me going in the right direction. Thanks for any help.