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My family of doctors and scientists definitely think of software as blue-collar work. Especially anything www. My other family of nurses and factory workers de
by throwawayjava 9y ago
My family of doctors and scientists definitely think of software as blue-collar work. Especially anything www.
My other family of nurses and factory workers definitely think of software as white-collar professional work. Especially anything www.
I think the same thing happens with engineering, except engineers have a bit more social capital due to their guilds.
More-over, the answer isn't static. E.g., a couple hundred years ago, we could've had this same conversation about whether carpenters or silver-smiths are laborers (or whatever other blue-collar-label-of-the-time).
But the answer also doesn't much matter. What matters is that your compensation makes you happy, will keep you happy in the future, and the work is interesting enough to make you feel sufficiently fulfilled (or the pay high enough that you don't care about that).
- wolco 9y agoWhat is interesting is those safe doctor professions will be hit hard by automation. I see the beginning of automation already. Perhaps gp will be a thing of the past while all doctors become more specialists.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoLike how webmd is making doctors unnecessary? Doubtful. At best they ( / we ) will get better diagnostics tools, but that won't reduce demand for people in the job.
- Consultant32452 9y agoIt will be interesting to see the AMA and IBM's Watson duke it out as Watson (or similar AI) makes diagnostic knowledge a waste of human capital. I suspect in 10 years or less we'll just need an empathetic person to deliver us bad news who has the bare minimum medical knowledge to strap on whatever test apparatus properly.
- emodendroket 9y agoThat assumes a state of medical knowledge that is, I think, more advanced than the one we have in reality.
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