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Because those careers are either extremely difficult to get through the classes in school (engineering, medicine) or take forever to actually hit the career (law, medicine again)

IB is kind of unique in that it is middle-school level math, barriers to entry have reduced (still tough, but you don't need to go to an Ivy) and you make huge money at age 23.

Only engineering is really comparable given the school requirements of the others, and getting good at SWE takes a lot of time / engineering is an introvert career, so those guys are not as fratty and thus hardo about it. There are definitely "hardos" in engineering but it's just a different type. Think super nerdy kid who's been aiming at FAANG since high school and only talks about coding, tech, etc - pretty common SWE "hardo".

 

LOL thats actually rlly interesting. Wonder if there's beggar hardos - brag to other beggars how many people they begged to, how much dosh they made, how many hours they begged (instead of some who just sleep beside the till)

 

Tech hardos also totally exist. Go into any comp sci department at any university and you’ll find plenty of discord mods who haven’t seen the sun in years bragging about their Amazon offer and 160k TC or whatever it is. There are losers in every career path.

 

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