The Falling-down Professions
#1
Posted 07 January 2008 - 05:34 PM
The article is a good read, I strongly recommend it. What are your thoughts?
#2
Posted 07 January 2008 - 06:56 PM
But even still, I want to be a doctor because I want the challenge. If ever America goes through another depression, I want to have a career that will still hold up; people will still need doctors to cure them, even if the economy is low, whereas they can go without buying music or art. It's a stable career, if anything.
I believe these professions should be falling down, just as they are. Now it's a loaded statement, but if you consider the risk involved when you go to a doctor or a lawyer, you want someone who was dedicated enough to go through the torture it took to get them to where they are. Law school and Medical school can make you want to give up-- I know the many times my mom has thought about just dropping out of medical school and be satisfied with being a Physician Assistant. But a person that would persevere no matter how hard it is to continue is very likely to produce a person with character and integrity; those are the kind of people I would trust with my health or legal matters.
Like they say fire purifies gold, the "fire" of harsh education and training is necessary to weed out the lazy and unfit, and produce only the top notch and quality people fit for these positions.
#3
Posted 07 January 2008 - 07:33 PM
Nevertheless, that was an interesting article, GL.
#4
Posted 07 January 2008 - 08:10 PM
NYT said:
I'm not going into a profession that someone wants me to, I'm going into a profession that I believe I love doing. If you question successful people, including Bill Gates most say they are rich and successful not because they wanted to, but somehow it was a consequence of doing something they love.
I stand by the policy never get into a profession that the market dictates, but one that you passionately love. I have heard so many people who wanted to become lawyers because their father was, and suddenly they realised "This isn't want I want to do". Thank God they realised it before it was too late.
#5
Posted 07 January 2008 - 08:15 PM
#6
Posted 07 January 2008 - 11:43 PM
Doing what you love is good, but if you do what you love, and it makes you good money, then that's even better <_<
Watch me fall flat on my face during med school x.x
#7
Posted 08 January 2008 - 09:09 PM
#8
Posted 08 January 2008 - 09:32 PM
I want to be an inventor. It's a pretty risky career, especially since you not only have to come up with new ideas all the time, but you have to make them feasible as well. Unless you're lucky enough to hit a multi-million dollar contract. Fortunately for me, I've already got a handful of very useful and feasible ideas. I only lack the ability to make some of them real due to the cost of building prototypes, or the time it would take to code any one of the programs I've thought up.
#9
Posted 09 January 2008 - 12:59 AM
Platinum Sun, on Jan 8 2008, 08:09 PM, said:
True, but it also produces doctors and lawyers who are dedicated and perseverant. You don't want a lawyer that would give up on your case, or a surgeon that would give up in the middle of a surgery because it's "too hard".
Today at the practice where my mom works, a woman was complaining that she went to Mexico and she thinks she got sick from something she ate [[Well DUH. It's friggen Mexico!]]. Instead of being a normal patient, she decided she would bring in her stools in a plastic baggie that she's been keeping in her refridgerator! >.< Like, what is my mom supposed to do with a bag of crap? They say that doctors are overpaid, but at times like this, I think there is nothing you could pay me to handle someone elses sh!t.
#10
Posted 09 January 2008 - 05:41 PM
I'm not setting my career in stone; I dont neccessarily want to be a scientist, but it could be a possibility, I want to leave my options open.
#11
Posted 09 January 2008 - 09:15 PM
#12
Posted 11 January 2008 - 03:27 PM
Its so annoying when people say what you can't achieve!