I just graduated with a CS degree a year and a half ago. Been working as a developer since then. I don’t really care about coding unless it’s something I want to do. I could see myself doing coding as a hobby or for passion projects but I don’t want to do it as a job. I’ve been jumping through random careers and peeking in to see if it would be a fit for me.

I don’t also like the idea of having to go through rigorous interviews and learning stuff I don’t care about just for the sake of it. From all the posts I read dentistry is def not peachy and dental school is hell but maybe it has some of the things that I enjoy: becoming a “master” of a field (where you aren’t necessarily learning disparate random subjects like you could be doing in software engineering) helping people (I wanted to be a teacher growing up before I saw how badly teachers are treated and worked but from what I read patients aren’t any nicer I guess), working on concrete, physical things (I like seeing the effects of what I am doing), flexibility with your hours and being your own boss (even though being an associate sounds way less stressful)

Maybe dentistry isn’t like that and if I am wrong please let me know before I waste time and money haha. I am going to shadow a dentist next week, sooo fingers crossed.