Poll: For Love or Money

Started by JZZZZZZZs
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On what basis did you choose your medical field and how do you feel about it now?

  • For Love...and I still Love it!!!!

    Votes: 18 60.0%

  • For Love...but I should've gone after the money.

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • For Money...and I drive a BMW, joined the country club and vacation in Aruba.

    Votes: 6 20.0%

  • For Money...but i'm not fulfilled by my career.

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • Total voters
    30
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I'm sure I'm oversimplifying things but it seems to be that in regards to picking a medical field, there are two basic routes that medical students end up taking....1) The idealist that end up choosing something they love (i.e. working with kids, elderly), wanting to make a difference in the world, and 2) The ones that choose based on their future earning potentials.
Now, I'm a MSIII and I'm at the crossroads of trying to decide what I want to do for the rest of my life. I'm not making any judgements by saying what I've said above. I respect people's choices but I am curious to hear back from those that have already been through this point in their lives and are actually living with those choices that they made back as a 24/25 year old.
Are there any regrets? Are you completely satisfied with your career? The ones that choose something they love, did the idealism eventually get smoothered by the reality of practice? Or are you still loving your choice just as much as you did the first day of residency? What about the ones that chose based on "lifestyle," do you ever feel that you could've made more of a difference had you gone into another field?
I appreciate any words of wisdom... 🙂
 
I don't think 10 votes make this a statistically significant poll but it looks as though most people picked based on love for their field. Can any one of you share with the rest of us what that field is and why you still love it?
Or on the flip side, those that chose based on money, what are the reasons that you do not feel fulfilled?
OldPyschDoc, do you practice adult or child psych? I really enjoyed child psych but most of the time, I felt like the living situation that these k ids lived in really contributed to their problems. And there's only so much you can do to change that.
 
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