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by medymed
1639 days ago
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The third year of medical school is often the lowest point of morale in medical training, even worse than the long hours of internship/residency because at least in residency you are a necessary and productive team member. Being a third year medical student sent to various services as the least useful person on the floor is no-one’s calling. Life gets better in medicine as you have more of a respected role to play later of one sort or another, but there are plenty of minefields later on too. One helpful approach can be finding attendings who seem happy and asking yourself if you could follow a similar route. It might be tempting but unfruitful to abandon medicine and dive into into programming. Unlike people switching track from physics or math grad school, you won’t be able to leverage much medicine into software engineering. Especially if, as you say, you haven’t coded anything in years, then maybe software isn’t a quite a daily calling for you either. On the other hand, there may be no better time in recent decades than now to go into programming in general for the hyper-dedicated souls among us, regardless of age. |
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Why? Devil's advocate: laypeople seem sick of tech (even if they use it a lot), it doesn't really seem to be solving problems (just shifting the envelope), and interest rates are bound to go up soon, which will only hurt big tech. Why is now more attractive than, say, 5 years ago?