When I was little, I was afraid to become a doctor, because I thought I might not be able to keep from laughing when I told people they had cancer.
wtf is wrong with me?
>>36801530
So what are you doing instead
>>36801613
programmer/day trader
>>36801613
Laughing at people diagnosed with cancer by another health care professional
>>36801620
Algo based trader? What's the pay on this shit?
>>36801752
Made over 200K this week
>>36801530
I didn't think I would be able to handle telling people that there's nothing more that we could do. I compounded that with an assurance that I wouldn't be able to handle somebody dying because of a mistake that I made.
I think it's less to do with the actual reason and much more to do with a visceral fear that comes with actually striving towards a near-decade investment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars with the possibility that the outcome isn't heaven on Earth.
I ended up in big meme biomedical research. I didn't fall far from that tree and I haven't ruled out going and doing
>4 years of med school
>2 years of residency
>Having shitty hours
To be that dream doctor.
>>36801530
If you were good enough at your job, people wouldn't care that you're a sociopathic, amoral asshole. You could've definitely make a name for yourself all while living making a great income.