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There's some pretty notable exceptions to that, medical specialists and some engineering disciplines get paid a lot because they're hard careers with very real demand. Not all engineering disciplines, of course, but nuclear engineers, chemical engineers, etc.
Even then though, I’d argue nuclear engineers are the least necessary type of engineer, but they get paid the highest. Civil engineers are the most necessary, and make the least money.
Same goes for doctors, GPs are more important than other types of doctors and make far less than others
Kinda depends on how you quantify how much they're needed. Yes, civil engineers are necessary for every single state project ever, while a nuclear engineer is highly specialized, but I'd argue the nuclear engineers working on ITER and on safer, more affordable fission power have some of the most important jobs on earth. Maybe my point falls flat a bit since there also are lots of civil engineers working on those projects, though. It's a bit harder to make that point for a neurosurgeon vs a GP because a GP does straight up save more lives than a neurosurgeon, and it's not like the value of a life is proportional to how difficult it is to perform the surgery procedure that would save it.
The example used in Bullshit Jobs is nurses vs doctors. Nurses do much more work but are paid significantly less. I'm sure there are areas where doctors are more specialized, however I've heard plenty of stories of nurses catching potentially lethal mistakes by doctors. Either way, the medical field needs more people so the end of overworking can stop these mistakes and improve patient care
I'm making a career move from bullshit tech sales to engineering. My prospects with a sought after degree from a highly ranked program pay what I made in my first year of tech sales without a degree or requirements to get licensed to eventually stamp plans that make me legally responsible for failures. End of career pay is about a quarter of what end of career pay in tech sales was. It's absurd