I started university in 2000 in Spain, and I remember at that particular point in time studying computer science wasn't seen as desirable. When people had that interest, parents typically pushed them children to study telecommunications engineering instead. It was the fad at the time: they were all employed, had a strong lobby and made a lot of money.
It didn't last much, by the time I graduated from computer science everyone in computer science had a decent job (not paying a lot, but enough for a living) while telecommunications engineers were out of job in their specific field and mostly taking second picks in the CS job market. And to my knowledge, it has been mostly like that since then.
It didn't last much, by the time I graduated from computer science everyone in computer science had a decent job (not paying a lot, but enough for a living) while telecommunications engineers were out of job in their specific field and mostly taking second picks in the CS job market. And to my knowledge, it has been mostly like that since then.