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Computer science career path — Lake City, FL

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

Computer science career path. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. Computer science splits into software, systems, security and research the moment you leave school. Each rewards a different balance of persistence, abstraction, detail and adaptability.

Careers the Lake City, FL economy leans on

6 counties across Florida; 0 metro. Economies: 3 government and 2 manufacturing. Flags: 4 low employment, 3 low post-secondary education and 2 persistent poverty.

Information Security Analyst+29%Computer Network Architect+12%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Web Developer+7%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer Programmer-6%

Counties in this labor market

Columbia County, FLHamilton County, FLLafayette County, FLMadison County, FLSuwannee County, FLTaylor County, FL

Metros around Lake City, FL

Miami, FL3 countiesTampa–St. Petersburg, FL4 countiesOrlando, FL7 countiesJacksonville, FL10 countiesBradenton–Sarasota–Venice, FL4 countiesCape Coral, FL4 countiesLakeland, FL3 countiesDaytona Beach–Palm Coast–Port Orange, FL2 countiesPort St. Lucie, FL6 countiesPensacola, FL–AL4 countiesTallahassee, FL9 countiesGainesville, FL4 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "computer science career path" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.