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Hey first of all thank you so much for spending the time to answer this.

Some things to clarify, which are not clear from my question.

I'm not trying to push her into programming, but rather trying to understand what a some of the possible career paths for someone with PhD&Masters degree in this area that would also have decent pay.

I see how demotivation for someone who spent so many years and obtained multiple degrees would be to see their pay being 1/2 or less compared to bachelors in CS.

So my initial, gut feeling if you will, was that that with the possibility of Genomic technology sector being the next "tech", highly paid sector - then having someone with PhD in the science part and also some programming knowledge could put her in a good career trajectory.

Of course I may be wrong, so I wanted to explore if someone with similar background pivoted into programming and how that went.