> But seeing the job market, I'm a little scared.

Today's job market sucks, yes. But, you'll be entering the job market in 4ish years, and it will be different, hopefully better.

Hard work, investigation, and problem solving are transferable skills, so even if there are no jobs for CS degrees in 4 years, you should be able to find something that just needs any science or engineering degree (there's a good amount of these types of positions).

One thing to pay attention to is building your network / address book. When you leave college, you're going to want to find a job, presumably. The best way to find a job is through someone you know who is hiring / working for someone who is hiring.

You will interact with many students... when you have a good experience with someone you think you might want to work with or who might be likely to find good jobs, be sure to get their personal contact info and put it in your address book along with some notes about what you did together. Especially be sure to get contacts for people in grades ahead of you, since they're likely to be employed when you're looking.

You want to be sure to get their personal contact info, because schools are cutting off email access pretty quick these days.

If you get an internship etc, be sure to build your address book of people there that you enjoyed working with, including other interns. Again, personal contacts, cause work emails will stop working if the person moves.

Try to cultivate the relationships by sending an email at least once every year or two.

Hey X, I was thinking about that time we did [whatever] together in [class name] with [instructor]... That was [fun/horrible]. What are you up to these days? I'm still grinding on my cs degree at [school].

It helps if you have notes about what you did together.

If they respond great, maybe have a conversation, and next time you email after a big break, mention things that came up. If not, try again in a year or two.

A few months into college is a good time to send messages to high school friends and see how they're doing, etc.