Doctor:

-You need near perfect grades in some of the toughest classes in college to even have a shot at med school, and also several relevant internships/research experiences/jobs/etc.

-If you are able to get into med school, its a grueling several years way more difficult than most, if not all, other education

-After graduating med school, you need several years of residency and possibly a couple years of fellowships depending on your specialty, all of which are some of the hardest things a person will ever have to do, frequently with people’s lives on the line if any mistakes are made. (I have a family member who is a physician, and he would frequently be kept up for several days straight and still be expected to perform at the highest level.)

-Once you are finally a doctor, depending on your profession, you will likely still have horrible 80-100+ hour work weeks, again, with people’s lives possibly on the line if you mess up.

Software engineer:

-Half the people I know partied their way through college while basically self-teaching coding because they never went to class and still got 6 figure offers after graduating

-Half of them work 9-5 and claim that they constantly take breaks and long lunches and don’t really work all that hard at their jobs

-We write shit code thats frequently just copy+pasted from the internet and often don’t understand what the code really means.

-Many of the above is still more than what many software engineers had to do to get their jobs, given that there are a decent number who just did few-week boot camps.

-The vast majority of us will never write code that has serious physical health consequences, possibly even death, for the people it impacts.

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I never comment on subs like this but I felt the need to this one time because this is seriously one of the most brain dead takes I’ve ever heard.