Everybody is into bio these days…
I was returning home on the MIT shuttle yesterday, when these two guys got on and sat on the bench behind me. They were talking rather loudly because the shuttle was full and noisy.
From what I could understand they were high school buddies. The conversation was about how they just graduated, one from MIT and the other from BU.
The MIT kid, possibly a computer science graduate, was going on about how all his friends were coders working at Cisco earning 33 bucks an hour. Some where at Google, got paid less but had better perks.
The BU guy followed by saying something along the lines: “Wow, 33 an hour! I should have gone into computer sciences…”. To what the MIT kid replied “Nah, everybody is into bio these days… That’s where the money is!”.
Shortly after, the MIT kid said “Anyways, I hate bio!”. The BU guy concurred with a simple “Me too”.
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Great story! Those poor guys don’t know what they’re missing.
I love bio because I can be a biologist and work on the computer at the same time. I work with many outstanding people who are recent graduates in biological fields. I don’t think they went into biology because that’s where the money is (the money in biology is comparable to the money in programming) but because it’s what they’re interested in. How interesting could programming for Cisco be, anyway?
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