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>>25307333
Physics major here,
don't feel bad about having a wagecage job right now. I remember right out of undergraduate I worked in a call center for a few months after I left this shitty startup that didn't pay me anything, was awful.

I did L33tcode challenges and taught myself to be better at programming. I applied to a bunch of jobs and internships and put together a list of completed projects I could show off to recruiters. An internship recruiter was interested in a project I worked on (combined quantum computing and machine learning) and I landed an internship that provided financial benefits while attending.

After the internship, I was again jobless but the connections I made through it proved fruitful and before long I was employed and for once had finally broken out of poverty.

It's hard, I get it, the system we live in is unfair and doesn't really make sense at times. But its what we're living in now, I would never knock my degree in physics (way better than CS imo) because while it might be a bit more of an adventure to find a job with it, you will be far more niche than CS normies and that usually ends up meaning you will be paid more. (plus physics is just awesome and much more interesting/fundamental than CS.)