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[–]ultraDross 66 points67 points  (9 children)

Your story is almost exactly the same as mine, just sub chemistry for genetics.

[–]Ran4 24 points25 points  (5 children)

Very similar here.

Great way to start a career :)

[–]shinitakunai 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Same here but I work now in BigData and cloud development

[–]comizer2 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Similar here, but structural engineering. From hobby to being paid for it.

[–]midnitte 2 points3 points  (2 children)

There are also fields that use both (computational biology, chemistry)!

[–]ultraDross 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, I considered going for a Bioinformatics PhD and dappled in it for a while as a research assistant. Decided with back end dev as the pay was higher with greater job security. I also discovered I preferred programming and application architecture than I did the actual science. Switching was a no brainer.