You present well. I've thought it would be difficult to become a good doctor because the turnaround time between tests is long, you don't know if patients are

You present well. I've thought it would be difficult to become a good doctor because the turnaround time between tests is long, you don't know if patients are lying to you, and if you're not working properly then your patients won't come back so you lose your feedback loop. This clashes with the hacker experience where the turnaround time for problem solving is often very rapid, and the problem sticks to your desk until you've solved it. Unlike with hacking, you have no opportunity to improve the system to make it easier to diagnose future problems with. I love the show 'House' because I identify with all the ways he works - leonine work habits, putting career interest ahead of body, largely unsuccessful attempts to modify energy levels with caffeine and alcohol, deliberately breaking things to see what happens, lupus ("It could be a threading bug!"), difficulty relating to normal people who don't orient around career obsession. I've fallen in love with supporting clients through API integration because it has a whole social dynamic that adds to the complexity. As with patients - when the other side tell you they've done something how can you be sure? "Everybody lies" / "Trust but verify".