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by volkk 1983 days ago
You sound exactly like one of my best friends. He couldn't get into med school due to very average MCAT scores and so he started working in research making pennies. After some odd years of that and racking up a ton of credit card debt, he had a go at a coding bootcamp and found a job as a senior engineer making over 130K almost quadrupling his salary. Not sure whether that speaks more to his intelligence or to our industry. I'm happy for him that he doesn't need to worry about next months rent anymore, though