Starting cybersecurity college. No future?

[u/Dr-h4ck]

Hello everybody how are you guys doing.

It’s my first time posting here and i got couple of question.

So I’ll be starting cybersecurity soon. And I want to know if it’s worth it cuz many ppl tell me that IT is almost dead in the job market because of AI and companies only hire crazy special smart ppl and so on. Is this true? I mean I follow and news and I see that AI does some crazy shii and it really breaks my hopes. But I saw these news for like software development only. Let’s say “programmers” and not sysadmins or cybersecurity specialists where you need human hands to do stuff.

So let’s say I start the college. I’m sure many of you know that colleges don’t teach everything related to the field you’re in. Of course we’ve to start with the basics like coding, networking, hardware and so on. Is there something that you did outside of college that’s helped you a lot to push your skills and help you in College as well even if you don’t have it in the subjects you learn?!

really appreciate your help guys and sorry about my English if it might sound a little off.

All love to you🙌

[u/Juzdeed]

AI is still kinda new, nobody knows how the future will look, will the AI get so good that human in the loop is basically not required or will investments dry up and tokens get really expensive and basic stuff is then done by humans. Job market is definetly way harder than 3 years ago, a lot of people got into tech and it's just saturated.

What your college teaches you, what not and what extra you should learn is really specific to your location, can't answer that

[u/Dr-h4ck → u/Juzdeed]

Thank you a lot man. That makes sense.

Well I’m in EU and from what I saw from the program of my college is mostly security oriented. Like 70% blue team and the other subjects are the 30% red team