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by Gene_Parmesan 2359 days ago
> I'm not sure many attorneys or physicians can say that

As someone who worked as a lawyer for 6 years before switching careers to software (after 4 years of self-teaching, mind), I can say that in the one year I've been professionally employed as a dev, I have already received several multiples of the number of recruiter messages during the totality of my time practicing law.