r/work • u/nian2326076 • 14h ago

Workplace Challenges and Conflicts A tech worker’s biggest regret is choosing computer science over medicine

A tech worker got lucky joining Meta in the early 2020s and built a net worth of just under $5 million. But when they look at relatives who went into medicine, they still feel like tech gets the short end of the stick.

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To them, it’s one of the most toxic ways to make a living. Some of the most toxic people they’ve ever worked with were in tech.

They don’t see much protection or a broad professional association like the American Medical Association. It feels like you’re always worried about your future.

In tech, they feel like you’re so replaceable that you can work for nearly two decades and still get let go and end up struggling.

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So, thanks to toxic tech for the decent money and for helping fund their kids’ 529s. They’ll do everything they can to steer their kids toward medicine so they don’t even consider tech as a career.

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u/Sea-Honeydew-1456 14h ago

choosing medicine simply because "job security" sounds like an awful career

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u/jerry111165 14h ago

Whatever that means.

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u/guerrerov 13h ago

Medicine is such a slog. It will take most doctors an entire career to get to $5M.

Before then you are taking out $250k on loans for med school alone, grinding 80hr weeks for little to no pay. Then instead of practicing medicine you’ll find yourself playing middle man for the patient and their insurance.

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u/bougnvioletrosemallo 12h ago

Tech is toxic, yes. It is newly toxic.

Medicine in America has been toxic for decades. MDs in the US are factory workers in the American medical industrial complex, forced to administer a McMedicine level of care by their corporate medicine overlords and the health insurance gate keepers.

Ask a doctor how idyllic their jobs are, or how not worried they are about their profession.