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Indracelly
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- May 5, 2024
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Doctor
- Best chance to make the most by far, up to a million
- Most difficult path, high IQ barrier
- Best job stability, doctors always needed
- Longest path, needs 4 year medical school, 3 year residency, and a few years fellowship
- Unlikely to be replaced by AI, no one will trust ChatGPT with their life
- Bad work life balance
- Prestigious reputation
Lawyer
- Has a wide pay range, You can make as much as a doctor (almost millions for legal partners in top firms) but you can also earn very little too ($60k)
- Good job stability, lawyers usually always needed
- Very likely to be hurt by ai
- Long path but not as much as medicine
- Smallest IQ barrier but to get good prospects you need to attend an elite school
- Bad work life balance
- Prestigious and dark triad alpha reputation
Engineer
- Makes a good amount ($80k-$250k) but getting above this is very hard even for lots of years of experience
- Forced to live in a high cost of living area like San Francisco
- High IQ barrier
- Good job stability, but will have bad recessions (see software engineering)
- will be hurt by AI but not much
- Best work life balance, only need a 9-5, will do very little real work
- Best opportunity for entrepreneurship
- Short path, need no more than a BS and doesn’t need to be from an elite university
- Associated with betas and incels
Finance
- occupations like investment bankers make almost as many as doctors, especially more prestigious firms
- need to be admitted to a top business school
- bad work life balance
- probably bad job stability
- Forced to live in a high cost of living area like New York City
- Lots of nepotism
- need to be extroverted
- Prestigious and dark triad alpha reputation
- Best chance to make the most by far, up to a million
- Most difficult path, high IQ barrier
- Best job stability, doctors always needed
- Longest path, needs 4 year medical school, 3 year residency, and a few years fellowship
- Unlikely to be replaced by AI, no one will trust ChatGPT with their life
- Bad work life balance
- Prestigious reputation
Lawyer
- Has a wide pay range, You can make as much as a doctor (almost millions for legal partners in top firms) but you can also earn very little too ($60k)
- Good job stability, lawyers usually always needed
- Very likely to be hurt by ai
- Long path but not as much as medicine
- Smallest IQ barrier but to get good prospects you need to attend an elite school
- Bad work life balance
- Prestigious and dark triad alpha reputation
Engineer
- Makes a good amount ($80k-$250k) but getting above this is very hard even for lots of years of experience
- Forced to live in a high cost of living area like San Francisco
- High IQ barrier
- Good job stability, but will have bad recessions (see software engineering)
- will be hurt by AI but not much
- Best work life balance, only need a 9-5, will do very little real work
- Best opportunity for entrepreneurship
- Short path, need no more than a BS and doesn’t need to be from an elite university
- Associated with betas and incels
Finance
- occupations like investment bankers make almost as many as doctors, especially more prestigious firms
- need to be admitted to a top business school
- bad work life balance
- probably bad job stability
- Forced to live in a high cost of living area like New York City
- Lots of nepotism
- need to be extroverted
- Prestigious and dark triad alpha reputation
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