Programming. My mother said I wouldn’t like it because one mistake would ruin everything. Well. We have linters, consoles, debuggers. Also, more forgiving languages (this is a lady who ate COBAL and Assembler for breakfast). It was a tooling issue, Mom!!https://twitter.com/amandadeibert/status/988828730624651264 …
Our salaries are controlled by the government here. Your point very much still stands — just my specific career path is standardized/all postdocs get the same salary. And retiring is something I probably will never afford to do as the pensions scheme here imploded. 
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You can always scoot over to Silly Valley and make your mint abroad :3 No, seriously, don’t do that.
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FWIW I think you can learn to code later in life. Lots of inspiring stories out there.
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