I'm a 24 year old who is about to graduate with a zoology degree and I am realizing that I'm going to need a better degree if I want to do the things I want in life. I have the means to get another bachelors and I am considering going into CS to be a software engineer

I don't have any experience with coding aside from object based programming and data analysis in Python and JavaScript. Yet I feel that this field could potentially lead to me where I wanna be in life: a WFH job, living on the west coast, being able to travel every so often.

I'm just very hesitant to get a degree because all I'm hearing is how utterly fucked the job field is. Pajeet outsourcing is taking away jobs from Americans and the few remaining positions are being given to H1B visas. Thousands are laid off every few weeks and AI is on the verge of replacing all the beginner level jobs, making it even harder for people to get their foot in the field. All I hear about CS is doom and gloom

Is all of this true or does this just all apply to people who just aren't skilled or really pushing themselves to do their best?

Is it too late to enter this field as a 24 year old? Im beginning to realize my current field is a dead end and that I made the stupid mistake of following my dream to be a zoologist. Im just about to graduate so there’s no point in NOT getting my degree but I plan to jump ship once I have that certificate in my hand

Ive only taken JS and python courses; made some data sorting algorithms that could predict if wine was red or right by its contents, and did not much else.

I know im going to be competing with people who have been doing this stuff since they were preteens. Is it something i can pick up in months?

My greatest weakness is that I look at others and their paths in life and think 'why didn't I do that?'. I'll look at a famous Hollywood director and think "why didn't I try filming my own movies?"
An videogame designer and think "why didn't I push myself to learn to code?"
I've even looked at Jeffrey fucking Epstein and thought "What should I do to be what he was" (Minus the pedo shit).

I barely have any direction in life to the point where I don't know where my passions lie anymore. I also find myself lacking the motivation to explore. It's like that freshly out of highschool self with aspirations and dreams died right after covid hit and I haven't been the same since. Now all I do is look at the success of others and jump to "why haven't I done what they have done?"

My immediate plan is to first catch up with most other people in life; get a drivers license, build up discipline, fix my mental state of mind. I just feel sad that its taken me this long to finally give myself the wakeup call to change