Software Engineer?

[waaaks!]

Hi there!

Is there any software engineer around here? I just need some advice on what field to master to be a successful software engineer. I am a second year college student taking up Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, I just found out in a magazine that there are lots of jobs on demand, and one of them is a software engineer (which also have the highest income in the list), so I searched for software engineer and to be one, one must be a computer science graduate which best fits for me.

This is the only convincing job I discovered for my course, and I want to be one, I just need some advice from those who are already a software engineer. Just a question, what is the best job a computer science student graduate may have? Or what other computer science related jobs have a good salary?

 

[The Helper]

Software Engineer means Programmer. If you want to be a Programmer take programming courses.

 

[Varine]

Software engineer incomes can range from almost nothing to multimillion dollar jobs. It depends on what field you want. There's game design, government jobs, working on OS's... it's like a doctor (kinda), you don't just become a doctor usually, you specialize in something.

What's with all the topics about I wanna be this what do I do?

 

[ertaboy356b]

I think there's a Software Engineering field..

Software Engineer means Programmer. If you want to be a Programmer take programming courses.

Based on my experience, you can't choose courses in the Philippines.. They are preplaced in your list..

 

[Bronxernijn]

The best job you can have is running your own company, whatever field you are in.

 

[Darthfett]

I'm currently looking into becoming a (Computer) Software (Applications) Engineer, as well. From what I hear, the pay is good.

My college doesn't actually have a Computer Software Engineering major, but Computer Science is supposed to be the next best thing for it (and it's what I'm going into). From what I hear, the job is designing, and building software for clients.

Computer -Systems- Engineering is a closely related field (designing databases and things like that, for clients), and the salary is supposed to be better. I prefer design, however.