we seem to offer that advice to a lot of medical students.
as i think about it, i'm not sure whether it is as clear cut as that.
let's say that there are some bad jobs within your favorite specialty and you may find yourself in one of them due to changes in reimbursement or practice changes or departures or whatever. let's also propose that your own needs and priorities change over the course of your career at least a couple times. kids priorities may take precedence over professional goals. you may find that you don't even love your specialty after few years of practice. you may find that you hate call more than you love the days. or the procedure/surgery that you love to do, you only get to do one day per week.
some specialties clearly are more schedule flexible than others. some have relative geographic freedom.
if we look back and ponder whether we had wound up in specialty 1,2,or 3, would it have made a difference? another alternative is to weight more heavily what you think your priorities are rather than something you love? even if you loved 1 and moderately enjoyed 3, if 3 had more money or more ability to give you shift work to balance your schedule, is it highly likely or improbable that 3 might make you net happier? is your ultimate happiness more a reflection of your own inner satisfaction than your actual job situation?
for those more gray haired, as the financial nest eggs are completed, do you find you love your job differently?
as i think about it, i'm not sure whether it is as clear cut as that.
let's say that there are some bad jobs within your favorite specialty and you may find yourself in one of them due to changes in reimbursement or practice changes or departures or whatever. let's also propose that your own needs and priorities change over the course of your career at least a couple times. kids priorities may take precedence over professional goals. you may find that you don't even love your specialty after few years of practice. you may find that you hate call more than you love the days. or the procedure/surgery that you love to do, you only get to do one day per week.
some specialties clearly are more schedule flexible than others. some have relative geographic freedom.
if we look back and ponder whether we had wound up in specialty 1,2,or 3, would it have made a difference? another alternative is to weight more heavily what you think your priorities are rather than something you love? even if you loved 1 and moderately enjoyed 3, if 3 had more money or more ability to give you shift work to balance your schedule, is it highly likely or improbable that 3 might make you net happier? is your ultimate happiness more a reflection of your own inner satisfaction than your actual job situation?
for those more gray haired, as the financial nest eggs are completed, do you find you love your job differently?
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