Is medicine a meme degree?

>>7715951
What makes a degree a "meme"?
With medicine you make so much bank

>>7716002
>With medicine you make so much bank
This is an incorrect meme. Unless you get into a leading position in a big hospital, you're just gonna be a wageslave employee.

>>7715998
No. It's a really important degree. Honestly, there is no such thing as "meme degree" unless we are talking about really absurd ones like women studies. Just study whatever you enjoy.

>>7716011

I wasn't aware 200k/year was "wageslave" status.

Good thing there is a "CEO of Oil Company" degree where you are guaranteed a position as a CEO of an oil company. Oh wait.

>>7715998
Not sure what you mean by meme degree in this sense. Doctors in general are well trained, well educated, well paid, and well respected. They tend to kill themselves a lot through, potentially because of the fact they take their work too seriously, and they know what an LD50 is.

Medicine is monopolized , all the Mexican they make is cheap. But where's the fun in that ?

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Lol, no. Its not. Its also certainly not wageslave. Anyone who argues this without a convincing reason is just a fox getting mad over grapes. Engineering, for instance, is literally wageslave-tier. You work for someone with an MBA who doesn't give a shit about you or your work for your entire life, unless you do consulting.

With medicine you have a lot of independence both in authority and in choice to do whatever the fuck you want. Want to work in a comfy country clinic? Go ahead. Want to turn your house into a clinic? Want to be a humanitarian and work in Africa? Want to be a traveling doctor? Hospital? Specialisation in an interesting field? There is always something to do, something to learn, people to meet and new avenues to explore. You're doing hard, intellectual work that actually helps people.

Medicine is a field that makes you a free man. The autists on 4chan will deride fields like medicine, art, social work, and so on, but the truth is that most of the fields that sci likes to jerk off over are some of the most confining, soul-destroying fields you could imagine.

>>7717224
>generalizations, the post

Don't most doctors work for corporate entities (HMOs, government agencies, etc.) and aren't they taking orders from a monkey in a suit? Doesn't the majority of people in every field take orders from a business ape?

My first professor in Comp Sci got to travel around the world helping developing countries build their IT infrastructure. My own father gave up a lucrative accounting career in the private sector to do something he enjoyed. I'm sure there's some MIT mechanical engineering PhD who's spending his days repairing motorcycles in rural Japan because that's what he wants to do.

You get confined by choice. You're a prisoner of the laws you live by.

Any field can make you a free man, or a wage slave (although I resent that term, as it in no way, shape or form resembles slavery). There's no "meme degrees," only shitposters

>>7717288
>Don't the majority of people***

Annnnd it's time for bed

>>7717224
Sorry to break it to you, but medicine is a meme and has been for a long time. It'd be worth it if the process to become a doctor isn't as soul crushing as a lifetime of wageslaving.

For the first few years, you'll get a bachelors and probably will be stuck with a bunch of retarded premeds that you're going to compete with to get into med school. Hanging around retards is bad since you have nobody to talk to aside from mentally unstable people who've been helicoptered by their parents into getting an MD. Hanging around people as smart as you is bad because of competition. Pre-med competitive antics are annoying as fuck, like when they sabotage each others labs and grades. You'll have to study for a host of test like the MCAT and get recommendation letters from everyone you know and worry about leadership and extracurriculars and showing passion for the poor. Good luck with writing an essay that isn't cliche'd. In the end, most of you won't even get in.

If you made it in, congratulations, you have 4 more years of memorizing ass. Done? OK just do some residency for 3 to 7 years depending on how retarded you are. Then congrats you are officially a doctor at 30 years old. And you have a fuckton of debt.

Now during your practice you realize you live in a country where people like to fuck you over by suing you for retarded shit. So half your salary goes to legal expenses. Let's not forget Obama trying to fuck you over as well. Whatever money you make, you won't get time to spend it since your constantly on call and have to wake up at 2 am to save someone's dick. Want to have fun? Sorry, you're bound by medical ethics and shit that essentially means you can't even talk to your patients like a normal fucking human being.

So essentially the system is set up so you can't be a doctor if you want money and stability. You must legitimately hate yourself and/or have a messiah complex, and if you don't already have a gaping anus, you'll get one.

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>>7717430
>'murica
>land of the free
>mfw