If somebody was really good and presented themselves well, why the hell would they want to sling code for somebody else when they could go into finance or medic

If somebody was really good and presented themselves well, why the hell would they want to sling code for somebody else when they could go into finance or medicine? Yeah, being a tech founder can be amazingly lucrative but for anything else the non-tech roles are better respected and paid quite well. Think of a good quant or surgeon.