sir/mam plz help I want to take humanities after class 10 but my parents forcing me to take medical to become doctor. plz advice how to convince them
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Tell your parents to read this answer.Hopefully it'll convince them that medical school is not for you.
What's tricky here is that when faced with such a threat you may want to go against your parents' "wish" (demand). But what if medicine is your calling and you'll yet have to discover it. That's absolutely possible. I like the answers that point to that.
It’s much better to seek understanding and trust than approval (validation of your idea).
The real danger of trying to convince someone (and family members in particular) of the validity of your career choices lies in focusing on proving them wrong and not (as it should be) on making sure that the choice you've made is the right one for you.
Let's see why.
Medicine is not financially lucrative. Not only is medical school expensive (rs 160,000 average debt ), residency barely pays a livable wage considering that most residents are working the equivalent of two full time jobs. My friends who are medical residents say their salary is only enough to stave away the interest from their medical school loans. So part one is that it costs a lot of money to go to medical school, but also consider this: not only are you paying to go to school, you're also incurring a massive opportunity cost. While I'm sitting here losing rs70,000 a year, my friends with tech jobs are making rs150,000 a year. That's nearly a quarter of a million dollars in opportunity cost! Here's a cheeky little diagram that puts things into perspective:
Teacher. Given the focus on writing and speaking in a humanities major, graduates are well-prepared to become teachers. ...
Advertising Sales Agent. ...
Technical Writer. ...
Artist. ...
Counseling. ...
Event Organizer. ...
Public Relations Manager. ...
Travel Agent
If you don't love the profession, you'll burn out. Physicians have one of the highest rates of burnout in any profession. Burnt out physicians also tend to have higher rates of suicide compared to other professions. Compounded with your disinterest in medicine, you'll probably (1) burn out, or even worse (2) commit suicide. Yes, I know I'm stretching things a little bit, but the risks of unhappy doctors committing suicide are very real. Going in grumpy is just rubbing salt in the wound.
If you don't love the profession, you probably won't even make it. Medicine is a long grind. 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school, and 3–7 years of residency. Some of these years will put you on your mental and physical tipping point. You really need a sense of conviction to get through something like that. The system is designed to break those who don't.
Do your parents have any other reasons for you going into medicine besides the (false) sense of financial compensation? Let me also ask you this, if the central premise for your parents wanting you to go into medicine is for the money, why haven't they considered other options that make more economic sense like investment banking?
Third update. Kill two birds with one stone. There's an explosion of data in medicine and there will byoa need for programmers to figure all that out. Why not become a MD in the context of data mining/machine learning/statistical modeling/etc...? That way, you can still be a "doctor" but use your programming skills to better health and humanity. There is a plethora of interesting computational problems to be solved in both medicine and biology.
What's tricky here is that when faced with such a threat you may want to go against your parents' "wish" (demand). But what if medicine is your calling and you'll yet have to discover it. That's absolutely possible. I like the answers that point to that.
It’s much better to seek understanding and trust than approval (validation of your idea).
The real danger of trying to convince someone (and family members in particular) of the validity of your career choices lies in focusing on proving them wrong and not (as it should be) on making sure that the choice you've made is the right one for you.
Let's see why.
Medicine is not financially lucrative. Not only is medical school expensive (rs 160,000 average debt ), residency barely pays a livable wage considering that most residents are working the equivalent of two full time jobs. My friends who are medical residents say their salary is only enough to stave away the interest from their medical school loans. So part one is that it costs a lot of money to go to medical school, but also consider this: not only are you paying to go to school, you're also incurring a massive opportunity cost. While I'm sitting here losing rs70,000 a year, my friends with tech jobs are making rs150,000 a year. That's nearly a quarter of a million dollars in opportunity cost! Here's a cheeky little diagram that puts things into perspective:
Teacher. Given the focus on writing and speaking in a humanities major, graduates are well-prepared to become teachers. ...
Advertising Sales Agent. ...
Technical Writer. ...
Artist. ...
Counseling. ...
Event Organizer. ...
Public Relations Manager. ...
Travel Agent
If you don't love the profession, you'll burn out. Physicians have one of the highest rates of burnout in any profession. Burnt out physicians also tend to have higher rates of suicide compared to other professions. Compounded with your disinterest in medicine, you'll probably (1) burn out, or even worse (2) commit suicide. Yes, I know I'm stretching things a little bit, but the risks of unhappy doctors committing suicide are very real. Going in grumpy is just rubbing salt in the wound.
If you don't love the profession, you probably won't even make it. Medicine is a long grind. 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school, and 3–7 years of residency. Some of these years will put you on your mental and physical tipping point. You really need a sense of conviction to get through something like that. The system is designed to break those who don't.
Do your parents have any other reasons for you going into medicine besides the (false) sense of financial compensation? Let me also ask you this, if the central premise for your parents wanting you to go into medicine is for the money, why haven't they considered other options that make more economic sense like investment banking?
Third update. Kill two birds with one stone. There's an explosion of data in medicine and there will byoa need for programmers to figure all that out. Why not become a MD in the context of data mining/machine learning/statistical modeling/etc...? That way, you can still be a "doctor" but use your programming skills to better health and humanity. There is a plethora of interesting computational problems to be solved in both medicine and biology.
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Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.
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