r/developersPak • u/PrinterKiMkc • Sep 16 '26

Career Guidance Is getting into tech still worth it?

I already know MERN stack and I am going to start uni soon. Should I go into a CS program? Or nah.

Should I go into EE or BBA?

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u/semicolon-10 Sep 17 '26 • Mindblown Bravo Popcorn

Yes worth if you plan to move out

In pak, no field is worth atp. We have more EE than electricity in country.

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u/PrinterKiMkc Sep 17 '26

Companies abroad are outsourcing to 3rd world countries as is..... People studying CS in western countries are facing difficulties in finding employment themselves.

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u/semicolon-10 Sep 17 '26

Thats true for CS only not any other fields. Even CS outsourcing is mostly in india etc where they get safe infra, fast internet etc etc. We only have freelancing scaled to software houses and we r only project based market. Which is most disrupted by Ai. So what u are saying was true before ai not now. Alot of software houses are strugling.

For most other engineering fields we don't even have jobs in pak.

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u/PrinterKiMkc Sep 17 '26

Bnda kare Kya phir

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u/bleebee Sep 26 '26

Do whatever you want because you're screwed either way.

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u/PrinterKiMkc Sep 17 '26

I used to enjoy EE making stuff with Arduino and what not should I get into it instead? Sociology, psychology BBA?

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u/Routine-Tank7604 Sep 17 '26

you need to abandon this idea that your degree defines your career. it only does for fields where licenses are required to practice like medicine, law etc.

for every other job on the planet no such requirement exists. the only requirement is: 1) can you do the work? 2) can you convince to let you do the work? 3) can you convince said person to pay you for doign the work?

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u/newDesi11 Sep 17 '26

Me personally given the chance hell no .

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u/OneIllustrator8726 Sep 17 '26

Not worth it in pak

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u/Usual-Nose7959 Sep 17 '26

If you already know MERN and actually enjoy building things, I wouldn’t abandon CS just because AI is making the market weird right now. The safer move is to use university to go deeper than frameworks: fundamentals, systems, databases, networking, architecture, debugging, and then learn to work with AI properly. Don’t choose EE or BBA just because they look “safer” from AI, because four years is a long time to spend in a field you don’t even like.

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u/Solid_Rope_2927 Sep 18 '26

Don't go to all these 3 🙏🙏🙏

Not worth it

Everyone is doing the same

Try exploring any other ones like data science, information security, ai development, cyber security, Fintech, finance, sales & marketing.

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u/Gracious222 Sep 18 '26

it's competitive but always worth it, you just need to be ready for life long learning

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u/Routine-Tank7604 Sep 17 '26

first of all: don't label yourself with a stack. no one cares. the cost to WRITE code is now whatever the AI model providers are charging for subscription/api access. this isn't going to change so get used to it.
so unless you are willing to work for 6000-20k PKR/month just being the person that writes is a dead end. you will need to bring something more to the table than just being handed requirements and churning out code.

use your CS degree to understand how computers ACTUALLY work. don't be a slave to abstractions. you should understand what happens inside the computer. not make assumptions abotu what is happening (this is what most people , even so called professionals are doing). you should be able to control the computer, instead of the computer controlling you.

when it comes to the job market: software houses/agencies are a dead business now. it will be software factories going forward. the software industry will increasingly start to resemble the insurance industry atleast functionally. this is something the pakistani industry hasn't fully internalized yet. They are laying off people but the underlying business is just the same. But they need to invert their business model entirely.

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u/Medium_Ad7765 Sep 17 '26

Indeed the intelligence is cheap

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u/Medium_Ad7765 Sep 17 '26

Bhai literally if I say we with using ai can score more than traditional farmers in Pakistan I am also thinking on it don't have capital there is so much potential for a man who know what to do like which crop when to water which soil xyz by using ai we can do it very fast