Side projects to get jobs? Surgeons don't do brain surgery in their free time

That tweet is just plain ignorant. Medical school graduates go through several years of residency, which is closely supervised on-the-job training, before becoming physicians. It's rigorous, stressful, and the hours are very long. For the US in particular, residency for surgeons lasts 5 years and residency for neurosurgeons, since the tweet mentions brain surgery, lasts for 7 years; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#United_St...

If the people who repeat this dumb meme want to do the effective equivalent of five to seven years of continuous examination on top of a rigorous college education before becoming developers just so they can have less rigorous interviews, they're welcome to go for it.

And if they do, we go all "legal consequences" on them.

Journalists should be moonlight as relationship counselors, telling one partner how all the problems are the other's fault. Narratives are far more valuable in a personal context.

Surgeons actually often do pro bono work, medical volunteering, etc..

I don't want to do side projects. Or code on a whiteboard. Or have to have a degree. Face to face interviews give me anxiety. I also want to work remote for my mental health. Being evaluated is violence.

$200k 4 day work week please.