>>12175506>BioinformaticsI worked at a bioinformatics company during my undergrad degree. It was basically 2 teams.
Team 1: a bunch of health care professionals, health care students, health science students.
Team 2: the programming team (little health science knowledge (didn't even know what a protein was)), and a business person.
I also worked in a lab that heavily used bioinformatics. The Senior Scientist said "we don't need to know how it works, we just need to know how to interpret the results". One of the postdocs in the lab did use linux though to analyze DNA sequences and shit. Not sure if that was hand written code by them, or something they borrowed from someone else.
>FinanceThe company I did my community pharmacy rotation on has pharmacists in their corporate finance structure. They say it's because you can hire an MBA with no idea of the reality of pharmacy or hire a pharmacist who has actually been there, done that, and actually has a grasp on their financial proposals because they've lived others' proposals.
>SummaryOverall, I think learning to code /finance could be good since it is used, but there's still TONS of people who all have that skill too. If you're going to do it, do it better than the average normie bearing in mind that the average in our profession is not the same as for the general public. Ergo, you need to either innovate and start your own company off the innovation, or be so innovative that companies want you're brain on staff to capitalize on your future potential in their field. No midwits allowed. It's unfortunate that the skill floor just keeps getting driven up from necessity; doing more just to maintain your level because someone just as hungry as you is willing to do it sucks.
My last piece of advice before I have to go do pharmacy school stuff: practical > academic. Having a PhD doesn't make you smart. Being smart makes you smart. Be smart.
