Yeshiva vs Software Engineering

Arguing with rabbis about God → arguing with code that won't compile. Structurally identical. Mom still doesn't understand what I do — she'd rather say I was a doctor. But a nervous doctor would be bad.

Apple Notes/Yeshiva vs software engineering

I used to spend all day arguing with rabbis. "Do you agree with me on this god thing?" "I don't know!"

I'm a software engineer so these days I spend all day arguing with myself in front of a computer. "Why won't this code compile??" "I don't know!"

So not much has changed.

I work for doctors making medical calculators. My mother tells me she thinks I'm just teasing her.

She tells me she wants to be able to tell her friends that I was a doctor instead of awkwardly explaining what a medical calculator is.

But could you imagine a nervous doctor like me? "Why won't his heart start?!"

- The parallel structure is the whole bit — keep the phrasing exactly mirrored - "I don't know!" repeated — the second one gets the laugh because of the setup - "Why won't his heart start?!" — same energy as "why won't this code compile" — play it identical - Mom line can breathe, it's a crowd-warmer between the two big beats

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