Hi.
Welcome back to eat your cuz podcast.
I'm Jisoo.
I'm Crystal.
And I'm James.
This week, we brought James back on because we wanted to talk about something that's a little bit more career focused.
And James is a software engineer, and there's a ton of them in the Bay Area.
Yeah, I feel like maybe a quarter to a third of our friends are software engineers.
Definitely, which is pretty crazy considering how many different occupations there are.
But software engineer is definitely a huge, huge goal that many people have, which you could definitely see in the rise of computer science majors in schools, especially.
Since the Bay Area is so stem focused.
It's a very common path for people to take, but it's nice because there's a lot of different focuses and specialties within computer science.
Yeah.
So, James, why did you choose to study computer science in college?
So in high school, I noticed that I was pretty quick with math, but I didn't really have a passion for any other specific field at the time when I was applying for colleges.
So I kind of looked at it like, going into cs is pretty good for people who can think logically, have a good foundation in math, and have good problem solving skills.
And it's also kind of a lucrative field right now.
Like, it's in Silicon Valley.
It's probably one of the higher paying occupations.
So I kind of just went with it as sort of a safety net.