Java or information security?

Question

Java

Good time of the day! I am 20 years old, I myself am from Donetsk, but a few months ago I moved to Kyiv. I didn’t finish my studies, but I didn’t manage to transfer. I want to enroll in java courses, I want to try. It is also interesting to go to information security courses, but I can only choose one, there is no way to be like courses in one specialty and then try another. I need your advice, what problems can I face? What is the best choice at the moment? What are the pros and what are the cons?

Answer 1

java opens up more possibilities

Answer 2

From the looks of it, you're not in the best situation. Java is, of course, good, even very good, but the threshold for a junior is very high. If you need to start earning now - take PHP better for a start.
I can’t say anything about protecting information, you need to get acquainted with the course directly.

Answer 3

From the experience of his university, where he studied - the protection of information is abstract garbage. What they teach there is almost impossible to put into practice, since you need a lot of related knowledge, which is not enough (I have 3 friends who graduated from the specialty "security and information protection". In fact, they graduated as smart mathematicians, but useless programmers. The gap is now between our salaries are almost 5 times as they could not get a job in their specialty (2 work as testers, and one as a courier). Accordingly, it will be impossible to find a normal job. Java looks very promising here.

Answer 4

Learn Java. What is taught in information security courses is practically not applicable in real life. There is a 90% chance that you will be trained there for some kind of CTF.