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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a CS/math major and I make more per hour worked than my surgeon brother in law who didn’t start making money until nearly 40 (phd-md).  The majority of his family’s major decisions revolve around his career, it constantly takes priority in his family’s life and has nearly led to divorce more than once.  Granted, their life has gotten better since he finished his training, research and fellowship, but it was a grueling period of time while trying to also start a family. They have told us after going through the process to become an elite surgeon/researcher, they would never have either of their kids go into medicine unless they were the best of the brightest and could get into something cushy like dermatology (highly competitive).

I love my stress free job, complete flexibility, can work from anywhere, 20 hours per week. If you like and are good at math, are also good with people and American , you will do extremely well.  Every industry is in desperate need of tech workers not just Big Tech.

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I’ve been in software development and engineering management for almost 30 years.  I’ve never met anyone in tech who worked 20 hours per week. Not doubting PP, just saying that experience is not typical.  Much more common to work 60 hours per week.  Also, you have to stay current.  I spend at least 10 hours per week learning new languages, frameworks, and tools (outside of work).  There have been some studies about the stress of needing to stay current on software developers over time, and it’s a more stressful gig than you would think for that reason.  Also, something like 60% of software projects either fail outright or end up way over budget or late.  Depending on your personality, that can be very stressful.  [/quote]

What type of company or govt entity? [/quote]

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