I've always wanted to be a doctor but now i'm questioning if i can survive so much schooling. I'm really interested in marketing and i've read that some marketing positions can even make as much as a doctor and they dont have so much stress and school. In your opinion which is the better choice.
2007-08-25 17:45:46 · 4 answers · asked by surflaguna08 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I dont necessarily want an easy life. But a life were can stand back and say wow i've made it.
2007-08-26 09:01:09 · update #1
I'm a Marketing professor, and I'm not sure about the things you have heard. Yes, there are some marketers who make a lot of money, but overall, medicine definitely pays better. Also, there is much more competition for marketing, since fewer people are willing to put in the effort to become physicians. On the other hand, if you are looking for an easy life, I'm not sure either is your best bet. Both tend to be stressful.
2007-08-25 18:06:54 · answer #1 · answered by neniaf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always been the entrepreneurial type of person meaning that I'm always thinking of business ideas, reading business related books, talking about business, etc., but after years without coming up with any solid business ideas I decided that maybe this isn't what I should be doing so I decided I would do the second best thing in my opinion; that is to become a doctor specializing in either pediatrics, pediatric neurosurgery, or infectious disease. So I decided to start taking my pre-med requirements a long with finishing up my philosophy major. Well, the truth is and always has been that I have hated school with a passion. I would like to enjoy it but I just can't so there is almost no way I would have the motivation to be in college for the next 10 years--I mean, I am having trouble making it through one day of school because I hate it so much even though academics come pretty easy for me--maybe that is one of the problems. Anyways, I came up with a genius idea for a business so right now I'm still in college (unfortunately), but I spend most all of my time developing this idea and I'm having an absolute blast!
I guess my point is that it's going to take so much schooling and not just your regular college classes either--brutal one's! If you are luckily enough to be accepted into med school you can expect study all day and night pretty much for the next 2 years until you get into clinical rotations. If you want to be a doctor THAT bad you will have to put up with a lot of schooling, but it will all be worth in in the end if that is what you truly want to do and you have to REALLY want to do it--you have to want it so bad that you could never see yourself doing anything else.
I didn't really answer your question directly, but I hope I helped, lol.
2007-08-26 01:02:54 · answer #2 · answered by Chrisguy4 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably marketing.
You have to be DEDICATED YOUR ENTIRE LIFE in the medical fields. This means that you have to keep up with current events and new techniques on various medical procedures. Not only this, you'll be in a boat load of debt after finishing med school.
I recommend that you go with marketing because it seems like you don;t want the stress yet have an important job.
http://www.pre-med.info
2007-08-26 01:14:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all up to you ad whether which one you like. You should pick the one you enjoy more. But if you want my opinion, i would say dermatology because it's easeir to maintain when you get older. Marketing takes development and care, but it also depends on what type you get into to. Hope that helps =)
2007-08-26 00:55:58 · answer #4 · answered by Jacky C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋