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> True, it's more mentally demanding than anything else. This is just not true. Going back to my example, doctors and nurses have more mentally _and_ physicall
by elteto 3y ago
> True, it's more mentally demanding than anything else.
This is just not true. Going back to my example, doctors and nurses have more mentally _and_ physically demanding jobs.
> Point still stands though.
It doesn’t. There are harder jobs, both mentally and physically. And most software development is generic and not that complex work that a lot of people could do.
We are only snowflakes in the sense that we think we are special, and that comparatively we have very nice salaries (at least in the US).
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agomost doctors and nurses work off of mostly rote knowledge, software developers not nearly as much. it's an apples and oranges comparison.
- elteto 3y agoThat’s a fairly common and wrong misconception of how doctors practice. In reality, there’s a lot of analytical work and “debugging” of symptoms. But even if you were correct, I fail to see how it makes it apples to oranges. Do you _really_ believe coding up some CRUD SPA web page is the most mentally demanding job in the world?
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoI said mostly for a reason.
- bumby 3y agoMaybe most bad doctors and nurses. It's like saying most SWEs just copy something from StackOverflow to do their jobs. Good MDs and RNs know how to take in the full context of a patient to make a diagnosis. That takes complex understanding, not just rote memorization.