OK my salary as medical doctor went into shit, Im not joking im in ASEAN 3rd world country

SWITCHING TO DATA ENGINEER

wish me luck

That's sad. Looks like it isn't a local phenomenon, that the actually important jobs are paid worst...

I feel similarly, I think I'll become a neurosurgeon. /s

I'm not saying you can't, but I am saying you just don't announce your intent to become something and it just happens overnight, especially in something so reliant on learned skill and harbored by talent.

Best of luck to you, but I think you need to take a step back and look at the reality in front of you before you leap.

Doctors and other Medical staff are always underpaid while the Hospitals loot Money big time

All the best! And thank you for serving the Medical Community

@lambda123 I completely agree, being smart is the only thing you need to change careers!

That's sarcasm by the way...

@Oktokolo Doctors aren't important. They only push forward the age of the elderly. In our all important field (god should be in your password somewhere) you hardly see relevant people at age of 60. Only thing doctors do for us is make the world more crowded, water polluted with meds and late/crappy pensions.

We are the brain to the industrial brawn. We build our own worlds with our own rules like fantasy authors but they actually come to exist. We should not only get paid but worshiped as gods.
The best of us should be cloned so they may live forever.

I'm sorry to say but you will need luck...

Market is flooded with "Data Engineers/Analysts/scientists" - People that did a degree in math/physics and have no use for it, so they now write shitty code to draw wrong conclusions from tainted data for moron daytraders.

Maybe go biotech research engineer instead? fold some proteins?

@Oktokolo i feel with some economic tinkering even miserable jobs should pay the best

Course in the case of doctors we need to eliminate the Dr death types

@sariel is there even as much as a need for technical people these days ?/ seems everything is built and everything else is legacy hell no one is updating

Hey if you're not a sociopath come to america we're in need of doctors that don't kill people

@TheWrongGod there's still cutting edge tech, but it's being developed in emerging sectors that require actual science degrees.

Examples:
Biotech
Quantum Computing/PQC
Manufacturing automation

Like @Nihil75 said, don't just change your whole career path, pick something that creates a hybrid of your existing knowledge. Biotech is probably a great place to go as a doctor. Virologists need help from big-data analysts, and if the last two years haven't told you much, it's going to be a huge market while we move into the future.

Could you imagine being *the person* that's analyzing the first alien virus discovered on another planet or moon? I truly believe that we'll see that happen within our lifetime.

Point is, you can't be a member of our future unless you apply yourself today. Setting an achievable goal, no matter how far in the future it may be, is better than setting a generic one without a deliverable.

@Nihil75 i also tought of this too!!

@aurizan1 on the other hand - I'm not sure how many such positions are out there, and if they pay well ...

I have a friend with a degree in biotechnology, she works as C++ programmer on printer drivers.

@sariel honestly have been thinking about adding mechanical.engineering

Cognitive computing would be interesting but that's mostly research and imho comp vision will be hardware driven and no one really can specialize in robotics and have a real job

So manufacturing authomation might seem possible excepting I'm trying to think what already isn't being accomplished via low tech mass production anyway lol

@sariel this is just and has been an ongoing problem as more and more of the market. Converts away from real jobs to already finished jobs inhabited by people who sold themselves body and soul or were sold

Excepting in traditionally people oriented roles like construction or retail or maintenance etc where are the real jobs ? Think I said this before a long time ago
Not much has changed
Service jobs seem to be the only real ones anymore

@Nihil75 maybe that's the ticket bland.spec work
Course printing as an industry seems down

@TheWrongGod I actually see a ton of interesting jobs that require robotics degree/experience.

Mainly in agriculture automation and space.

@Nihil75 agriculture seems likely but i bet they're mostly research

So you're from ASEAN. which part of the world you from? I'm from Malaysia

How much data are you crunching these days?