I understand your point early career struggles and pay gaps in healthcare are real. IT grows faster financially, but healthcare, while tougher, impacts lives in a way few careers can. @dr_deepika
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Well said, healthcare provides real value to people’s lives, yet it’s often undervalued compared to material things. The gap between impact and pay is what makes it feel unfair. @DrSuneeti-Yemberi
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IT offers significantly higher pay than healthcare, and as a newcomer, I found it quite challenging to secure a job in the healthcare sector due to limited openings. The safety role is crucial here, unlike in other fields. Coming from a medical background, I realize I can’t change my past, so I plan to develop my skills in both IT and healthcare. By acquiring the right skills, I believe we can succeed in both areas. I am focusing on a combination of the two fields.
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It’s because IT jobs can pay a lot right away.
In healthcare, you have many years of training with low pay before you start earning a high salary. The big money just comes much later.
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That’s a smart approach combining IT and healthcare can open many opportunities. With the right skills, you’ll be able to bridge both fields and build a strong, future proof career. @Theja
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Exactly IT offers quicker financial returns, while healthcare takes longer due to the years of training, but eventually provides stable and rewarding careers. @Devesh_chandola
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Best things take time and dedication and passionate.
In the Medical field this is a blessing, & noval profession so they need to warth of it .
You’re paying give you with 10x more or more than your expectations.
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It’s the nature of the profession.
If I had choose again, I would blend both the careers. With an experience in healthcare sector, I am aware about its ground reality, and the curiosity of learning technology always intrigued me to explore this field.
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Yes indeed. Even they are not considering them as what they are realy for . They have been not paid for the insult they took, pressure they took, the struggle they took, the constant battle for the decision they took for this path. From day one of their college life, this starts and it never gets better. Its the same all along their journey.
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Its a real bitter truth of healthcare workers, everyone studying day and night sometimes they give up sleeping, food and internal energy also to get graduated, but after that they get very low level wage in any domain they enter as fresher compared with IT sector they even didn’t met the work-life balance. After many year of struggles they get little bit better package, but they are frontline workers, they even working in every pandemic or epidemic situation without considering their lives, but they didn’t respected as much and didn’t get recognised.
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True. Medical professionals are the hard workers. Since they have worked very hard to achieve that stage. But due to some incidents, some of us have misunderstood them and treated badly. However, mistakes do happen and controlling the pressure load sometimes is hectic. Wages are sometimes paid less and that really can’t be accepted. Need to focus much on it.
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True. The pay disparity and the perks of flexible work life balance often bring a sense of envy in the minds of healthcare professionals, but the right mindset and passion for service and duty towards patients, can bring you back to basics and prepare you for a long time journey of medlife.
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Despite the insane amount of studying, spending nights awake for exams, dealing with critical patients, risking their own self by exposing to diseases, healthcare professionals are paid very less compared to IT professionals, for that matter any engineer. One day you’re considered God for saving a life, next day if a patient passes away under your care , you are treated as a criminal. It is very unfair as engineers work for a fixed hours a day for only 5 days a week, having weekends to themselves whereas doctors at a stretch are expected to work for even 72 hours straight.
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I choose healthcare combined with IT, more of healthcare because it’s my passion to service people
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Yes, I absolutely agree with you on this. A healthcare professional spare day, night, 24/7 just to take care of anyone who needs assistance rather than any project based work timings or deadlines, hence the initial pay of a health care professional should be no less than any IT professional.
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Thanks for sharing yours opinion @Dr.Anuj
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Yeah blending both will help @Rutvikunvar
Thats true for the work we are doing, we should be compensated in better way @Dr.AbdulRahman
Absolutely it’s a harsh reality. Healthcare workers sacrifice years of intense study, personal well being, and face life threatening situations, yet often receive lower pay and limited recognition compared to other sectors like IT. Despite being the backbone during crises, their contributions are undervalued, and true respect and reward come far too late. Society owes them far more than applause. @Sowmiya
Their hard earned expertise and relentless dedication deserve far more respect and fair compensation @Reeta123