Medical work and software development are very different kinds of work with very different difficulties.
A lot of medical shift work is about being there, not necessarily about doing stuff all the time. There’s a lot of standby-duty. It’s sometimes physical work, sometimes emotional/social work, sometimes actual brain work (researching stuff). It’s quite a lot of different types of tasks over a shift.
Software develompent is highly-concentrated brain work without meaningful built-in breaks. You spend all day staring at a screen, doing high-level logic non-stop. Humans aren’t built for that kind of work at all, so it’s really difficult to do that for extended periods.
Medical work and software development are very different kinds of work with very different difficulties.
A lot of medical shift work is about being there, not necessarily about doing stuff all the time. There’s a lot of standby-duty. It’s sometimes physical work, sometimes emotional/social work, sometimes actual brain work (researching stuff). It’s quite a lot of different types of tasks over a shift.
Software develompent is highly-concentrated brain work without meaningful built-in breaks. You spend all day staring at a screen, doing high-level logic non-stop. Humans aren’t built for that kind of work at all, so it’s really difficult to do that for extended periods.