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Re: Ask HN: When to give up on dreams?

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> I find medicine to be as interesting as mathematics while the workload being significantly lower Dude, there’s something wrong either with your schools, or with your perception of reality. In any case, life is not a picnic, there’s nothing unusual in constantly putting extra effort to achieve something worthwhile.

> Dude, there’s something wrong either with your schools, or with your perception of reality. Talk to some doctors. Ask what their workload is like. It turns out that software engineers are worked way, way harder.

I don't undermine the stress of a software engineer (althouth 95% of them out there are doing quite simple and boring stuff on a daily basis, if you ask me).

But the nature of the medicine is incomparably harder and more complex than the nature of CS discipline (which is an artificial human-made construct, however sophisticated).

It only means that if someone puts less time/effort in studying more complicated thing, this someone is much worse in it than in less complicated matter.

Re: Ask HN: When to give up on dreams?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP here. To be clear, I'm referring to studying in school and not career-work. In my country it would be very non-controversial to say that the program I'm currently in is significantly harder and more time-consuming than medicine. I think this is due in part to the fact that medicine is 6 years here, as opposed to 4 years in some countries. Average workload for a medical student is around 40h/week including lectures…

Then the medical school you refer to is probably not worth it (I would never choose to visit a doctor, who didn't study harder than a programmer). Being born in eastern europe myself I know of plenty of shitty schools, both medical and engineering.

I mean it ranks very well and the school itself has some very good research output. I need to reiterate, it's a 6 year degree and not 4 years. The workload is about the same for all medical schools in my country. I think the workload is similar to a CS degree at some good university but that's mostly speculation on my part.

Re: Ask HN: When to give up on dreams?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Dude, there’s something wrong either with your schools, or with your perception of reality. Talk to some doctors. Ask what their workload is like. It turns out that software engineers are worked way, way harder.

This is just not true for at least the first 15 years of a doctor's career. Source: Worked with multiple surgeons all over the country.

Sorry, I'm going to believe the BLS over one random person on hn
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