IT jobs (forensics?) and CS degree

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I beg to differ with Davewill. In all honesty, I don't believe the degree matters. I've been working in IT for over 20 years without a degree. What's gotten me by all these years are experience and certifications. Heck, I worked for a CISO a couple years ago who had a bachelor's in psychology. Personally, I'm looking at GA Tech's OMSCS after my bachelor's because it looks like a good program and is from a great school.

In my time, I've also worked in forensics, and the odds of not interacting with people are close to zero. You have to interview people to get an idea of what you're looking for on the computer before you even consider launching EnCase and imaging the drive. And yes, if you're doing it for law enforcement, odds are you're going to end up on the stand in court with a high dollar defense lawyer grilling you in every way imaginable. A good friend lost a case for the prosecutor because he had a DUI 10 years earlier.

Also, those boring low level monitoring jobs still involve interacting with the customer or on call and explaining to them why you woke them up at 3am.

I think my point is that there are very few IT gigs out there that don't involve interacting with humans, no matter how crappy they are ;-)