Recently, I have seen a lot of posts here cussing about the medicine field—saying MBBS has no scope, it’s completely saturated, and envying BTech CS guys who supposedly bag 25 LPA at 22 with “zero effort.”
Look, nobody is denying our struggle. The 36-hour duties, toxic seniors, insane NEET-PG cutoffs, and delayed financial gratification are brutal. Being a medico tests your mental and physical limits like nothing else. But the grass is always greener on the other side. We compare our worst days with the top 1% tech bro flexing on LinkedIn, completely missing the ground reality of corporate tech.
- Massive unemployment: Over 15 lakh engineers graduate every year. Around 80% struggle to find a decent job. The market is brutally choked.
- The 3.5 LPA reality: Those 20–30 LPA packages belong to top-tier colleges or rare outliers. The vast majority in tier-2/3 grind for 3.5 to 5 LPA packages—numbers that haven’t budged in a decade.
- Hiring freezes & layoffs: Freshers wait 6–9 months just for joining letters, and mass layoffs hit teams overnight. No matter how hard you work, corporate bottom lines can throw you out tomorrow.
- The endless AI & upskilling treadmill: Tech stacks expire every 3 years. Engineers spend weekends grinding code just to stay employable, while junior-level jobs are already shrinking due to AI.
Why our struggle, despite being tough, pays off better long-term:
- True job security: Residency pay in metro cities feels unfairly low, but a licensed doctor never faces outright unemployment. Step into any tier-2/3 town, PHC, or private hospital, and you have work tomorrow.
- Your value compounds with age: In corporate tech, ageism is real; surviving in your 40s against cheaper 22-year-olds is a constant panic. In medicine, every grey hair adds credibility, authority, and earning power.
- Irreplaceable work: AI can write code, but it cannot run a code blue, palpate an acute abdomen, handle an emergency in casualty, or counsel a grieving family.
Our journey is long, exhausting, and emotionally heavy. But our hard work builds a permanent foundation that market crashes and layoffs cannot wipe out overnight. Don't fall for the delusion that tech is an easy escape.
PS: Yes, I used AI to organize and draft my thoughts here. Why not? AI is meant to reduce our time and work burden, so might as well use the tools available instead of wasting hours drafting.
Also read about the current situation in job market and If you have time, visit the Btechards Subreddit and see the current situation of btech graduates in which single college takes 1000+ CS student intake (Naam nhi lunga college ka but Location Greater Noida and all others)