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There are millions of them. The median salary is shit. Hundreds of thousands are desperate to move abroad.
If you think getting out of India as a doctor is hard, oh boy...
I'm really sorry, but a proper answer here would take more time than I can reasonably spare. I really shouldn't be here in the first place :(
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We mostly use blood tests to exclude other physical causes for depression, like hypothyroidism, anemia etc.
Technically? You can use low 5-HIAA levels, but nobody does, probably for good reasons I don't have time to Google. Maybe @reo or @Throwaway05 can show up and do the dirty work for me. Help a brother out, ya know.
Neuroimaging isn't entirely useless either, in the sense that there are things in the brain we can observe changing in the depressed. But it's not very reliable. Same with OCD, autism or schizophrenia.
So I hope. So I hope. Thank you.
Is this due to over saturation? Other countries having first mover advantage? Corruption / nepotism? Etc. What are the high paying careers and positions over there, or is more of a problem of economic mobility?
Over saturation? Definitely. Anyone can get a CS degree, and it's not even strictly necessary. Medicine, on the other hand, is strictly regulated and there's a limit on the number of doctors entering the workforce.
The best paid programmers in India usually work for FAANG or adjacent companies, at the Indian branches. Some freelance, earning Western wages while at home. The majority just get by working shitty jobs for long hours with average pay (which means pitiful pay by Western standards). The worst off are TCS code monkeys, who really have nothing going for them.
Keep in mind that this isn't necessarily worse than many other professional careers. Engineers in India aren't enjoying themselves either.
The easiest way to get career or income mobility is to get hired by a foreign company, establish a reputation, and apply for a transfer to a foreign branch. I have a cousin in ML who makes big bucks (by Indian standards, which means close to my UK salary). He's been offered roles in the US, but only on a temporary "put out fires" basis, and not at comparable wages to what someone living and working there would make. I've encouraged him to take it, or simply apply directly at American companies for local full-time roles (H1B route, probably). He entered ML well before it was cool or over saturated, even if he wasn't involved in LLM work. That means he's extremely lucky/forward thinking, probably the latter. I remember him installing weird vision models on my gaming PC when he used to visit, back in 2017. Good for him, I want him to get out while he still can.
And yes, the quota system for H1Bs only worsens things. Everyone is desperate to get one of those.
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