• NotAnOtter@lemmus.org
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    15 hours ago

    If I could make 70% as much in a different field, I would have switched by now.

    I no longer enjoy my field as a profession. There is no “solving” anything anymore, it’s just prompting a bot and building tools that make it better and better at replacing me. But the reality is, without pursuing a masters in a different field, this is the most money I can make for the lowest amount of work. The field is dying and in the mean time we’re taking home standard salaries.

    Personally I’m pursuing a fintech specialty since IMO specializing is our last hope to survive the AI destruction. But I don’t enjoy it.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      40 minutes ago

      tech is one of the stem/adjacent you can earn bank originally like in the last 10years, almost every other stem is very convoluted, need wet lab, research experience, and/or grad degree(if you want to progress in a career) and tons of experience before even getting the foot in the door. nursing is making bank though, despite how bad it is it. other health field needing degree, you have to be competitive academic wise.