Just kidding, but I’ve actively encouraged my 8yr old daughter to learn how to code (using Scratch) and beginning to think that might be a dead-end… hope she will enjoy math!
I'm not at all sure that's a wise decision, right now, especially with the glut of software engineers, with far more experience, being laid off by FAANG.
She's leaving EPIC, and taking a several months long road trip with her boyfriend, and will find a job when she comes off the road. She's a smart kid, she'll figure it out. I just don't think she will end up in software.
They want an adventure, and they don't like Epic much, so they are leaving shortly. She has definitely ruled out grad school, after doing research summers in college, and observing how miserable the grad students were. And how glacially slow progress is. (She spent all summer analyzing data from a telescope only to find out, oopsie, the telescope was pointed the wrong way, never mind.)