BSBA CIS or BSAST IT

[dfrecore]

I'm reminded of the old Clint Eastwood quote: "Do you feel lucky?" "I don't need any stinking classes or MOOCs on machine learning, linear algebra, cybersecurity, data science, programming in Python, etc..." Sure, you don't need any of those classes to vmotion a VM. But why can't a stinking machine take over your job of vmotioning the VMs?

I have no idea what your husband does, but IMHO there are some areas of IT that are on the decline over the next decade even though IT as a whole is going to grow. IT operations like system admin, network admin, and devops are roles that are on the decline as efficiencies in the job and the move to off-prem cloud accelerates. But moving employment to cloud providers is not the solution. Headcount will still go down as efficiencies improve. The system admin that didn't get on the virtualization bandwagon, doesn't know how to script, or otherwise refuses to learn is probably ancient history already or on the chopping block soon. The network admin that doesn't recognize the threat of SDN will be looking for work in the next decade.

The CS degree allows you to pivot from poor areas in IT to promising areas that will help avoid unemployment like cybersecurity, data science/data analytics, and software development.

He's now in sales (no sys admin, net admin or dev ops now or in his past), so definitely not necessary to get a CS degree. If that was his only option, he would probably change fields, since he has zero interest in that degree. Actually, I don't think a single person that he works with has a CS degree.

Again, I just urge people to look at where they want to go, and then figure out how to get there.

And, if you aren't interested in a CS degree, there are plenty of other options, and other jobs, available that don't require that degree. If you are truly uninterested in (or can't pass) the courses you need to take to get the degree, then you probably won't be that happy with a job where you need to use those skills.