One issue here is though, if you really want to be a doctor, you need this education, you can't just start as an assistant/ secretary or hospital cleaner and wo

One issue here is though, if you really want to be a doctor, you need this education, you can't just start as an assistant/ secretary or hospital cleaner and work your way up. Whereas say a career as a programmer, there are plenty of back doors and ways to learn and move up without having to get the formal education. There's still the reason to get that education but I can honestly say if I don't end up making back the difference on what I spent on it during my working lifetime it won't worry me at all.