Medicine vs CS (Tech)

[Anonymous]

If your college student dc ask about the advantages and disadvantages of this careers, what would you tell them?

[Anonymous]

I'll chime in with one opinion on CS.

You should be quite good at it if you plan on doing it long term and really enjoy it because you'll constantly have to learn new languages and frameworks.

There's no sign of demand abating for CS majors in the near future but the crazy salaries from FAANG-like firms may be a thing of the past (at least until the next major technical breakthrough).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your college student dc ask about the advantages and disadvantages of this careers, what would you tell them?

Both career paths will suck you dry and leave you burnt out if you are serious about making money. Medicine also carries bigger student loans and more time in education, tech is a lower hanging fruit if you are good at it. But medicine also has bigger job security and minimum guaranteed income probably, vs. tech is more volatile.

Both career paths are now starting to quantify performance and with automation you are now becoming a cog in the machine even in medicine.

[Anonymous]

If you don't have the ability to memorize a huge amount of information, then medical school isn't really for you. The amount of information that medical students have to learn is amazingly huge. CS requires much less memorization, but it's lots of critical thinking skills.

If you aren't into delayed gratification, medical school isn't for you. You have four years of undergraduate training, four years of medical school and then residency. Residents only make about $55000 a year. CS graduates make a lot more than that with a 4 year degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your college student dc ask about the advantages and disadvantages of this careers, what would you tell them?

If you don't have a passion for medicine, then don't do it. There's a lot of ways to make more money far more efficiently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your college student dc ask about the advantages and disadvantages of this careers, what would you tell them?

Both career paths will suck you dry and leave you burnt out if you are serious about making money. Medicine also carries bigger student loans and more time in education, tech is a lower hanging fruit if you are good at it. But medicine also has bigger job security and minimum guaranteed income probably, vs. tech is more volatile.

Both career paths are now starting to quantify performance and with automation you are now becoming a cog in the machine even in medicine.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Don’t go into medicine if your primary goal is to make money.

[Anonymous]

CS advantage 1) Remote work 2) Flexible
Medicine. 1) Job security. 2) honorable profession.

[Anonymous]

Finance.

[Anonymous]

Med is always in demand. CS is not. Was hot soon to be cooler

[Anonymous]

Go into CS only if you love coding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll chime in with one opinion on CS.

You should be quite good at it if you plan on doing it long term and really enjoy it because you'll constantly have to learn new languages and frameworks.

There's no sign of demand abating for CS majors in the near future but the crazy salaries from FAANG-like firms may be a thing of the past (at least until the next major technical breakthrough).

CS doesn’t need to be all programming, though. It’s a broad degree that’s a great foundation for pretty much all of IT.

That said, you do need to learn new things a lot, but that’s true of most jobs. I don’t love it but I’ve been working in it for over 20 years and it’s a good career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Med is always in demand. CS is not. Was hot soon to be cooler

This is wholly inaccurate. The layoffs were across jobs and a few big companies and the people with CS backgrounds all had new jobs within a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Med is always in demand. CS is not. Was hot soon to be cooler

This is wholly inaccurate. The layoffs were across jobs and a few big companies and the people with CS backgrounds all had new jobs within a week.

Just a beginning far from over. You make it sound like it’s over and done with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Med is always in demand. CS is not. Was hot soon to be cooler

This is wholly inaccurate. The layoffs were across jobs and a few big companies and the people with CS backgrounds all had new jobs within a week.

Just a beginning far from over. You make it sound like it’s over and done with.

It’s more that people are lumping all jobs at tech companies as CS, and they’re not even close to being accurate. Very many of those jobs were non-technical and had nothing to do with computer science. Also, it’s a field that is hired at very many companies that aren’t FAANG and many of those have a lot of openings to fill those hires for the technical roles. Stating there is some issue with CS graduates getting hired is inaccurate and will remain so for a long time.