Can anyone please recommend some South African or New Zealand spots here? I saw an Irish Pub and many Italian places, but I haven’t seen a South African restaurant or New Zealand bakery yet. I really need some SA braaibroodjies or NZ meat pies. I’m bored and lonely and I really need some comfort food rn
TLDR:
I'm stressed and I feel like I'm already behind before even entering university because
I don't have experience with next js (or any other modern stacks) and git in high school
I didn't get into an absolute top CS school (eg. Waterloo)
Al is causing a sharp reduction in the number of CS jobs so you have to be at the very top to get a CS job, and I'm already not at the top because of the 2 reasons above
I'm going to university this year after high school, planning on doing CS, and I'm scared that I'm already not in the category of people who will find a job. I know this may sound silly to you, but the only things I know about careers are the things I heard from my parents (who are late boomers with no CS background) and what I saw from the headlines, and I concluded that without relying on any sort of connections, I'll have to be one of the top graduates to get a CS job after university.
Now, on paper I have a promising future: I got into one of the traditional top 3 universities in Canada, and I'm already working remotely (but part time) as a full stack developer and UX/Ul designer for an Australian company (non-tech consulting startup and I'm their only tech guy, I design and develop everything myself both frontend and backend) and this is a long term non-training position. However, I'm very old school: I don't know how to work with Al and my current stack is vanilla PHP + tailwind CSS + MySQL. Despite my expertise in frontend, my backend is are about 15 years out of date. I'm currently trying to learn react and I hope I can use next for my upcoming project (for the company, so it's gonna be a real product). I also don't know git and I can't learn it cuz I don't have a team to collaborate with.
What really makes me worried is that although Al won't take every single Cs job, there'll definitely be significantly less CS jobs especially for new graduates, and frontend developers will get hit harder than backend developers. Therefore, I think only the top new graduates are 'safe' in the sense that they'll definitely get a job. I'm not talking about top in terms of grades, I'm talking about top in terms of everything: school name brand + grades + COOP and other internship experiences + personal projects/ hackathon wins. A top graduate in my mind is someone like this: Waterloc CS with COOP, interned at FAANG and had tons of personal projects. Such person most likely already knew git and the latest stacks in high school but I don't, and I didn't get into Waterloo.
Can anyone please suggest if I'm really already behind or am I just stressing too much? And if I'm already behind how should I catch up? Thank you