
Originally Posted by
Craigslist
Because your handful of miserable people that i bet say to themselves, "Well atleast im not poor" is a great sample pool.
Sorry, but that makes no sense... (grammatically, or otherwise).
First off, they are not "my" handful of people, and I never opined that they say anything of the sort.
I find it intriguing that you have never met a miserable rich person. You have not yet met doctors who have made a ton of money and are on their third marriage with screwed-up kids and no life outside of the hospital? You have not yet met doctors who regretted their decision to go into medicine, or their particular specialty in medicine, despite an enviable income level?
Look, if money was the only thing that mattered, then it would be your guarantee of quality of life. That just ain´t so. If you haven´t seen that, then I honestly don´t know what to say about your sheltered existence to this point.
I do not think that money is a bad thing. Hell, money is awesome -- it is a lot easier to live with it than to live without it. I plan to make plenty of it. But I will gladly leave a significant portion of potential income on the table to have time for my family, dates with my wife, ice hockey, camping in the Alps, and fly fishing. Feel free to spend your entire life in the halls of medicine earning that paycheck, so you can drive home at night in a car that cost more than mine. I´m fine with that swap if you are.
You can love medicine all you want... it still doesn´t love you back.
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