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One big advantage that doctors and lawyers have is that their careers easily progress as they get older, they continue to get paid more and have excellent job s
by rb808 7y ago
One big advantage that doctors and lawyers have is that their careers easily progress as they get older, they continue to get paid more and have excellent job security. A 50 year old lawyer or doctor is making bank where no one wants to hire a typical 50 year old developer.
- superhuzza 7y agoThis is something I think about a lot. I'm doing okay working in UX right now in my mid-20s. But what job security and prestige will I have in 15 years from now, 25 years from now?
- akhilcacharya 7y agoI worked with lots of extremely competent SWEs around that age or older. I don’t buy this at all. The ones that left switched jobs or retired (and some came back from retirement).
- newen 7y agoI think the difference is that there are so many more software engineers. That is, there is no doctor equivalent of a typical 50 year old developer that no one wants to hire because those doctors were filtered out through med school, residencies, etc. You're left with a few highly skilled set of doctors. While there is no such filtering process for software engineers and you're left with a large number of people of varying skills. A highly skilled 50 year old software engineer is still very hireable.