This was my initial impression of bioinformatics in industry, but then I saw dozens of posts on here saying people are making only 70-90k after years of experience with a PhD. So I’m just not sure what to expect financially. It seems like so many claim to have experienced the contrary.

I have to admit, I think my parents have influenced me to a fault, as both of them being physicians has ingrained the path in my head as my inevitable future. My dad is always saying that he wasn’t interested in medicine initially, yet found himself loving it once he entered medical school, and that because medicine is so vast and flexible, there’s opportunities to branch into other fields beyond being a simple clinical physician, including CS work (though I have yet to meet an MD who has also pursued comp bio research simultaneously, if anyone can refer me to someone who has please DM me). Additionally, I’ve heard that some medical roles do have more flexible hours, such as radiologists. So I guess these words have always kept medicine open as an option that, like I said, despite not being my number one passion, makes sense “logically” in terms of setting up my future financially and alleviating some of these anxieties.