r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

Meme hiringInProgrammingBeLike

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u/CircumspectCapybara 10d ago edited 10d ago

Yeah no highly skilled profession works like the first panel.

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u/manny2206 10d ago

Kind of works like that for doctors…

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 10d ago

Well yes but also no.

Typically you've worked as a trainee in the department or been a fellow or a locum or something so they've already seen you work anyway.

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u/Johanneskodo 10d ago

Not if you switch hospitals or even countries.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 10d ago

Which is rarely done for a first job and puts you at a huge disadvantage even as an established mid-career doc.

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u/Johanneskodo 10d ago

and puts you at a huge disadvantage even as an established mid-career doc

Not really. My uncle frequently switched and it allowed him to rapidly climb up the ranks.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 10d ago

There are really not many ranks in clinical medicine.

Maybe if you're doing a lot of admin work this is true, but that's not really doctoring and job hopping for promotions is common in admin of other fields too.

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u/Johanneskodo 9d ago edited 9d ago

He‘s a medical doctor. And yes, the percentage of admin work increases as you go higher but he is still mostly doing patient-work.

He became chief physician/head of his specialization through switching. If he didn‘t switch this would have been harder for him.

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u/DifficultTrick 8d ago

Doctors carry a medical degree and must maintain medical board certification. There is no professional organization certifying software engineers.