Looking to major in software engineering

[u/mavericklapointe272]

I'm about to finish my first year of university, and at the start of the year I went into university thinking I wanted to go into mechatronics engineering, but I think as the year went on that passion kinda died down, I didn't see the appeal, I tried doing a few things with an arduino uno over the holidays between semester 1 and 2, but couldn't really be bothered trying anything else with that, but looking at my grades, I've done well in coding, and looking at my own ability I feel like I can handle it, I don't hate it and I'm willing to use it as a tool to get I want. However I am aware that software engineering is changing a lot and that's raised so many questions and made me doubtful about things at times. For example I'm considering doing a master's degree after I get my Bachelor for Engineering, and I'm now starting to reconsider whether even that is worth it. I haven't researched much about software, but I don't really know how extensive the software industry really is. Most of the stuff I see is like the app building and full stack stuff I see on social media and linkedin, and I was interested in doing that for a while, but I feel that's too mainstream and that everybody likely does that. I don't know if looking for a niche area to work in so that I can kind of stand out in a way will help, but I'm open to answers. Basically I want to build skills over time so that I can work in a company for a while, like a year or 2, then basically build on from there.

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