In all seriousness it's the only proper job

In all seriousness it's the only proper job
Let's look at the alternatives

>FANG
You literally sit in front of a computer every day hours on end. Imagine being 50 and looking back on your life having done this... jesus fucking christ. It also only requires 4 years of post secondary education whereas doctor comes in at 10. No men respect it and no girls fantasise about programmers.

>Law
Education requirements are a bit better than FANG but the pay is shit and at the end of the day it's a bit meaningless again.

>Investment banking and similar
Best pay but you're throwing away years of your life doing absolutely insane hours, also extremely difficult to break into. Same pathetic education requirement as FANG

>police/military/firefighter/nurse/teacher
All interesting and important jobs you can look back on and be proud of but the pay is absolute shit.

Jobs not listed are just shit and shouldn't even be considered.

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basically yea

A man doesn't need a lot of money. Find something that is meaningful and brings joy even when your dirt poor. A lot of people that make it and earn lots of money feel empty inside. So stop focusing on the pay

Depends on the speciality; it can become very wagey very fast, especially if you're shit with money.

Most rewarding is either direct impact on pt or straight up fixing an issue (surgery). I liked cardiology, and love paeds as kids are fucking great. Very rewarding and fulfilling, but can be brutally sad and very exhausting as well.

Great way for keeping you down to earth though. As your wealth goes up, you typically associate wiht others of that bracket; you forget about nice people who have just had a shit run of luck in their lives, and you do your best to help them.

Also stop smoking if you smoke and for the love of god do some exercise.

Law fag here.
I wouldn’t say the pay is shit. It guarantees you a middle class life at the very least—as long as you went to a decent law school and didn’t fuck up while there. It’s also respectable work and you do make a difference in the lives of your clients, depending on the area of law. The pay varies wildly. You can make from 60k (state prosecutor but then get your loans forgiven plus benefits) to 180k (top law school grads working in soul crushing big law) to hundreds of millions (some of the best ambulance chasers).

>A man doesn't need a lot of money. Find something that is meaningful and brings joy even when your dirt poor. A lot of people that make it and earn lots of money feel empty inside. So stop focusing on the pay
Precisely why I might step away from my 170k software engineering job and try something else. Currently in my late 20s.

I was laser focused on high status education and cash for a while, but as a relatively minimalist man, the only things I have left to buy are a home and retirement. I care much more about having time to pursue working out, meeting people, and especially deeply connecting with women.

If I do exit, I won't regret having accumulated ~200k in software engineering; it's useful for finanical climbing and that's it. 200k is enough for a guy to go get into just about anything and some of the "pay is shit" careers become digestible when you already own a home from your prior tech career.

>A lot of people that make it and earn lots of money feel empty inside. So stop focusing on the pay
Sure, let's forget about the means that allow a person for acquiring a house, a laboratory, travel, decent upbringing of children and a legacy for them, and most of all, means to protect oneself from petty criminals and extremely vicious and relentless criminals in suits.
This is probably a US, or a first world medic thread, which are a handful. The rest of the world has just as shit pay as police/military/firefighter/nurse/teacher.
The meaning in life is not determined by wealth or whatever activity you did to achieve or attempted to achieve. It is all within oneself. We will talk money, business and wealth, because relinquishing money or doing vows of poverty is a tacit admission that things are managed properly by those who possess it and have a solid say in the matter. And I sure as hell know for a fact most don't know what to do with money but make more of it, never to aim for a goal with a worldview worthy of men atop billions.
But here is truth . Yes, you might need to spend like 15 years of your life as an average doctor, living in miserable conditions to have a sliver of hope to get any meaningful amount of money, but at least once you do become a specialist and know the business, now you can finally grow.

Nursing here.

Actually I think much better than some alternatives. Working as a wagie nurse for public healthcare, hell no, but the competition to get into management is minimal and especially in private, care homes for example, there is potential to make more money than a doctor with far less of the problems.

>here is potential to make more money than a doctor with far less of the problems.
And thank god for that. You take plenty of shit in your day to day. You don't need another layer of problems regardless of how well you've managed to handle the issues in your main line of work.

Medfag here, my intention is to finish med school, grind for a few years, and then get some bullshit consulting job or just work like 3 days/week. I have realized I just fundamentally do not like to "work".