I am a sophomore in high school and am interested in software engineering/computer science. However, my dad has told me that I shouldn't go into either fields because it is too competitive since people can learn it by themselves or at boot camps, and that it wouldn't be worth it to waste so much money on a college degree when there are people getting jobs without one.
I found it a little disheartening because I'm centering a lot of my extracurriculars around technology and computer science, like robotics team, learning Python/web development/C++, starting a club to teach middle school girls about coding, planning on learning how to create a database for my aunt's law firm, applying for computer science summer camps, etc. Is it really that competitive?
This is really new for me and there isn't anyone I can go to in real life with experience in these fields, so if anyone could help me out, that would be really great.
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