There will always be people who find any field interesting enough to do it at their own detriment. I was a teacher because I just thought it would be enjoyable

There will always be people who find any field interesting enough to do it at their own detriment. I was a teacher because I just thought it would be enjoyable and interesting, and I was young and didn't think the stress or low pay would be a problem for me. I assume most doctors start out the same way. Sooooo basically it's almost always an emotional decision, unless you're already in a family that assumes and pressures you to be a doctor. (Though in that case I'd argue it's still an emotional thing, but the emotion is the pride of the family instead of your personal interest in medicine.) I think that everyone picking a career straight out of high school is doing it based on their feelings towards that field. Maybe they think it would be super dope to have a bunch of money, so they decide to go to school for finance. Maybe they watched a lot of investigation shows and decided to go into forensics because they wanted the excitement and achievement of solving crimes. etc etc