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Thanks, I think I'm more like your cousin. I just can't take the stress of working at a hospital and with patients, heavy night sifts sleep deprivation just dri

by rukshn 12y ago

Thanks, I think I'm more like your cousin. I just can't take the stress of working at a hospital and with patients, heavy night sifts sleep deprivation just drives me nuts. Well since I get the education at medical school for free I don't have any debt to pay. I think I've made the wrong decision in entering medical school in the first place, here getting in to a med school for free is like a once in a life time opportunity at they young age I couldn't resist it but now older I feel I made the wrong decision. None of my friends who are outside of med school believes in the stress and depression as they only see the high salaries and good life doctors are living but doesn't see the stress until you enter the field,

akg_67 12y ago
"None of my friends who are outside of med school believes in the stress and depression as they only see the high salaries and good life doctors are living but doesn't see the stress until you enter the field," Grass is always greener on the other side. I will encourage you to explore more your options between medicine and IT and make sure you are not afflicted with same syndrome as your friends. Medical profession has a good reputation and doctors are held in high regards in non-medical professions. I will suggest leveraging this reputation and respect to get yourself into a good position in non-medical profession if you don't want to practice as a medical doctor. Don't squander it away by becoming an entry level drone in technology industry. Another alternative may be to consider medical profession as means to achieving the end you want. Tough it out for a few years, achieve financial independence as quickly as possible and then do what you want to do in technology whether medical related or not. Have you heard of White Coat Investor http://whitecoatinvestor.com http://whitecoatinvestor.com? He is an ER doctor who started blogging about personal finance from doctor's viewpoint. He seems to have become quite popular in finance area with books and speaking engagements specially targeted at medical professionals. It seems he is drawing almost $200K from his finance-related side activities on top of whatever his ER compensation is. You could follow on his footsteps. Suck up and be a medical doctor for a few years, keep technology as side activity until your side activities become as big as being medical doctor then do whatever you like.
- rukshn 12y ago
  Thanks, no i'm not giving up on my current degree, as I'm going to graduate by the end of this year I'll be a doctor anyhow, it's after getting the degree I'm thinking of following an alternative field with the use of my medical degree. I was reading this article on the Atlantic, that talks about following MBA together with the MD degree http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/the-rise-of-the-mdmba-degree/380683/ http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/the-ris... Although I love computers and technology it doesn't mean I want to work in a software company, what I need is an alternative field so I can have a good family life and I don't have to work in a depressing environment and committing suicide few years later. Thanks for the suggestions they are really helpful

by rukshn 12y ago

akg_67 12y ago

"None of my friends who are outside of med school believes in the stress and depression as they only see the high salaries and good life doctors are living but doesn't see the stress until you enter the field," Grass is always greener on the other side. I will encourage you to explore more your options between medicine and IT and make sure you are not afflicted with same syndrome as your friends. Medical profession has a good reputation and doctors are held in high regards in non-medical professions. I will suggest leveraging this reputation and respect to get yourself into a good position in non-medical profession if you don't want to practice as a medical doctor. Don't squander it away by becoming an entry level drone in technology industry. Another alternative may be to consider medical profession as means to achieving the end you want. Tough it out for a few years, achieve financial independence as quickly as possible and then do what you want to do in technology whether medical related or not. Have you heard of White Coat Investor http://whitecoatinvestor.com http://whitecoatinvestor.com? He is an ER doctor who started blogging about personal finance from doctor's viewpoint. He seems to have become quite popular in finance area with books and speaking engagements specially targeted at medical professionals. It seems he is drawing almost $200K from his finance-related side activities on top of whatever his ER compensation is. You could follow on his footsteps. Suck up and be a medical doctor for a few years, keep technology as side activity until your side activities become as big as being medical doctor then do whatever you like.

rukshn 12y ago
Thanks, no i'm not giving up on my current degree, as I'm going to graduate by the end of this year I'll be a doctor anyhow, it's after getting the degree I'm thinking of following an alternative field with the use of my medical degree. I was reading this article on the Atlantic, that talks about following MBA together with the MD degree http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/the-rise-of-the-mdmba-degree/380683/ http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/the-ris... Although I love computers and technology it doesn't mean I want to work in a software company, what I need is an alternative field so I can have a good family life and I don't have to work in a depressing environment and committing suicide few years later. Thanks for the suggestions they are really helpful