When I started my CS career, I didn't care for it at all for almost an entire year until I found my niche language, then I started to really quite enjoy it. Just learn as much as you can now, expose yourself to a wide breadth of stuff if possible. And yes, you need to upskill on your own. Get super good at what you're doing, work on side projects etc. while you're young, then you can take your foot off the gas after a couple years when you break into mid level.

Right, this result (if confirmed) makes either of those much more likely.

I refuse to believe ET doesn't use radio for something though, even if they're emitting some kind of signature on accident.

Really hope this is true, but to me, this would just create more questions than it answers wrt intelligent life. The Fermi paradox is still in effect, basically. If there is life that close to us (even single-celled), that implies the universe is absolutely lousy with life, and therefore we should be constantly picking up electromagnetic radiation (radio waves) from other advanced life. Yet we're not.

Forgot "burlesque enjoyer"