Wow, so much lack of insight, it's not even funny.
Care to elaborate? Being undervalued and expendable is an almost unavoidable part of life in the larger corporate world. It pervades every field that lives and breathes by the words supply and demand sans the few "Mom and Pop" companies still focused on quality relationships with employees. I'm sorry but that post came off as immature and lacking in perspective.
The work hours are also a meh. That gets better (usually) once you're done residency. The money does, too.
The number of people out there trying to just make ends meet despite a good education and skill set, and he/she blows through it as if having that kind of financial security is just a given. I don't know, and I'm completely projecting here, but to me it came off as someone who doesn't appreciate what that security means and how much most people are willing to put up with for half of that, but who knows? I may have taken that the wrong way.
You're right about one thing DermViser, I can't talk about the medical world. I'm not a doctor, I'm an engineer, but I
am a person, with a real job, and a perspective just as relevant as your own. What I saw in this post was someone who had fantastic pay, good job security, hours they deemed reasonable, and a stimulating environment, who
still felt the need to complain about the kind of issues you'd encounter in any job as if he/she were some sort of victim. Patients are people, and people are going to be jerks. You should see what they say to you when you try to sell them pants... And unless you're Mick Jagger, there will always be people you have to tread lightly around, and there isn't a job in the world you couldn't lose through no fault of your own (maybe government/tenured jobs).
I might be happier, actually. Because at least I'd know that it was a useless job, and there wouldn't be this pretense that you, as a person, matter - when you actually don't. Plus, I could leave AT FIVE, instead of having 1-2 hours of paperwork to finish up that has to be done.
And this is the line that really just made me think that this person, despite being an attending physician, does not have perspective. Where do these people go when they leave their low-paying, dead-end office jobs at five? Is that it? They're just super happy because they have no false pretenses about their worth? They're definitely not worried about not being able to afford a house in an area with a good school district. They definitely aren't running numbers in their head before they go to sleep wondering how they'll ever send their kids to college. They definitely aren't working overtime, or working part-time jobs. They don't worry about company downsizing, or performance evaluations, or relocation. No, for a person to have the
audacity to say that these peoples' jobs could be preferable to their own because
they, as people, at least know their jobs don't matter... Come on.
smq, you came off as a different person in your next post to me, but I'm sorry, this one really just got me going. DermViser, yeah I don't know what it's like to be a doctor. I imagine it has it's downsides, but these are the attitudes that get people so riled up about physicians. I read your posts because you have the perspective of someone in medicine, how about you read mine to get the perspective of someone who isn't?
