LogFAQs > #922536262

last six years.

140k starting with a raise after finishing a certification exams, supposedly get 3% annual raises also. Gives me a 401k, 457b, health/dental/vision, and 34 days of PTO. Hired at one of the most prestigious programs in the field.

I kinda wish I pursued something else as a career. Whenever I get into doing math or programming I have so much fun. But at the same time, I feel that a professional software engineering job probably is focused on writing crappy code to meet crappy deadlines with crappy features from a design team while having crappy coworkers who entered software engineering for the money.

I guess I don't want to do software engineering, I want to do research developing new algorithms to solve problems or to automate things. Idk, I feel kind of empty inside right now with my current pathway, there is so much redundancy and paperwork in medicine and it's pretty obvious there are a ton of people who are just in this path for the money and prestige and "clear cut" lifepath. Honestly I'd say almost everyone is in it for those reasons. I was advertised a career which is very different that the one I'm in, and my reasons for being in it changed from love of what I'm doing to stability and the ability to achieve financial independence by the time I'm 40.

Really though, are most jobs pretty much a waste of time of waiting for other people to do things so you can do your part, and redoing work because and doing work that doesn't get used because people higher than you are unorganized or the scope and goals of a project keep changing?