My GP is leaving medicine. She doesnt make that much and the hospital is dictating her hours like a fast food employee. GPs make in the mid 100K range. I have s

My GP is leaving medicine. She doesnt make that much and the hospital is dictating her hours like a fast food employee. GPs make in the mid 100K range. I have several relatives that are physicians and they still work long hours, maybe 60+ hours a week, are on call some holidays, weekends, nights etc. They do love their work. I went to an MD PHD program for 5 years before dropping out (for the dot com boom). My dream was to develop systems that would create custom cures for infectious diseases. Take a sample of the virus/bacteria, drop it into the machine, and custom antibodies are created for the particular strain. I realized that medicine changes so slowly and you are essentially a mechanic for the human body. As a physician you have a specialty and will likely be doing the exact same thing for the rest of your life. As a physician you are servicing people as a developer you are building things. Tech is rapidly changing and for me is way more fun. You can reinvent yourself to a totally different technology or field every 5 years. You can start a company in just about any field with a development background to make much more than a physician can make. I started my own consulting practice and overall I believe was a much easier and interesting path than medicine would have been.