To the OP...
I don't know many 24 year olds who would consider themselves "morning" people. I am pretty sure if you polled most people, they would prefer to wake up everyday without an alarm clock, instead of 5 days a week to the sound of their alarm clock around 6 am.
I am sure most people want to make more money than less money
I am sure most people would prefer not to work weekends or holidays.
I am sure most people would prefer not to work 24 hr call and sleep in the hospital
I am sure most people would prefer to work a job or do daily tasks they enjoy instead of ones they despise
But guess what, not everyone gets to do exactly what they want. But guess what, in medicine, you can find several options that provide you with a lot of your preferences, but you may not get #'s 9, 21, and 37 on your dream job wish list.
As a physician, you will make more than A LOT of the population, but I am certain there will be people who make more than you, probably even at your hospital, maybe in your group. Physicians wake up early, OR guys like surgeons and anestehsiologists are usually in the hospital between 0630-0700 and even earlier during residency. Radiologists, psychiatrists, Family med docs are likely to get in later maybe 0800? Hopefully you go into a specialty you enjoy, but guess what, even in the specialty you enjoy there are going to be aspects you don't enjoy. Maybe you love your job but don't like that once a week you do a 24 hr in house call, but you do it anyway, because all other aspects are so great, and it's better than the job down the street where you would do call every fouth night.
My point is we make sacrifices.
If most people are like I described, than why do people do jobs than don't fit under some of their preferences???
Sometimes out of necessity
-Some people work two jobs (even doctors) out of necessity. Likely mostly financial either to pay off debt or to just make ends meet
Sometimes out of sacrifice or compromise
-Don't like every aspect of the job, but it is where the family wants to live, safe neighborhoods, beach is 10 mins away.
Sometimes out of greed
-This job sucks, but the pay is outrageous!! Sign me up!
Sometimes because we love the job
-I love my job. This week I performed a smooth awake intubation on a pt undergoing thyroidectomy for enlarged thyroid that was displacing the trachea on CT and causing dyspnea/SOB whille pt was supine and occasionally sitting up, plus I provided anesthesia for a 95 year old patient undergoing a bipolar hip arthroplasty, plus I performed a sweet sciatic plus saphenous nerve block for a patient undergoing internal fixation of a bimalleolar ankle fx where patient was still numb 24 hrs postop and said she slept like a baby and very appreciative, and I let our rotating medical student do a shoulder arthroscopy via the preop USG interscalene block and LMA combo much to his amazement of the power of regional anesthesia. Tomorrow I get to provide anesthesia for open heart surgery (CABG). I got to do all these things and the last three days I was home at 3p, 2p, and 12p.
I get paid nicely. I have great hours. I get a good amount of vacation time. I enjoy going to work....
I am not going to complain about waking up at 530 am.
