College senior who's uncertain of his future

<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I'm a senior in college at the moment. I started out in business freshman year, realized I didn't like it (dry, boring), switched sophomore year into double Japanese major and Computer Science major. I chose Japanese because its the language class I was taking and I really liked it. I chose Computer Science because computers have always interested me, I wanted to be a game designer, and I'd always wanted to take the elective in high school (just didn't have the room to take it).</p>

<p>But in my senior year now, I realize two things about my majors. First, for my Japanese major, I despise learning a lot of kanji every week (which is what the higher levels require). I hated Chinese for the same reason in High School, but I thought Japanese would get better/would be easier since Japanese at least has an alphabet of sorts in the kana system. But it only got harder and harder and I was hating learning it. Second, for my Computer Science major, I've found that more and more I dislike a lot of the technicalities and stress involved with programming. When I program C/C++ there's so much stress dealing with pointers, makefiles, memory management that I hate. I hate the discrete math classes and theory classes I've taken too. However, I have enjoyed a lot of the programming assignments, mainly the java ones in which we made cool things like games or an image editor. I was originally planning to major in it focusing on graphics for game design, but I realized half way through that it wouldn't work - graphics requires a fair bit of linear algebra (and I rather hate high level math) and its more tedious than I would like.</p>

<p>Anyway, I'm in my 4 year, and I'm graduating soon, in December 2015. I have about 4 and 3 classes left in my majors and then need about 3 generic random classes extra to have the credits to graduate.</p>

<p>But I'm not seeing where my majors will lead that much. I stopped at a mid-level Japanese because I hated the kanji and despised it, so I'm taking cultural classes. I'm taking a Software Development class next semester which I've heard is good for us students and for getting jobs, so depending on that class, I may seek a job in that field. But I don't know if I'd like the stress of working in programming for a job. I suspect that I wouldnt, and quite honestly, I doubt my abilities in programming as well.</p>

<p>But then that leaves me with the question - What do I do with my plan and how do I progress from here? I'm graduating with about 40-50k in student loans BTW.</p>

<p>I graduated with about 45K total in student loans from the cheapest state school I could go to. I transferred from my dirty cheap community college, so that 45K was just the two years I spent at Cal Poly Pomona.</p>

<p>Anyways, I think you should be alright. I should hope you networked and got some relevant experience under your belt. I graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. I haven’t used any of my degree, but they did not hire me for knowing very much about computers. I got hired as a computer programmer with zero experience since I guess I impressed the heck out of them during the interview and have picked up the language fairly quickly over the past couple of months at work. I am sure there are plenty of programming gigs where your computer science degree will serve you well. In any case, I don’t know what you can do with your Japanese degree, but I generally ended up hating what I was doing by the end. I had strong inclinations i should go into engineering from math for a master’s degree, but I decided to work for a year. I am trying to get into an engineering program since I dislike computer programming. But definitely use your skills you’ve picked up from your computer science degree…you should be able to find a job. Applied Math & Statistics really only prepared me for graduate school, I feel like. </p>

<p>Go to your Career office and talk to them about jobs in the Software industry that don’t involve actual programming…perhaps combine some software/business and get certified as a project manager.</p>