Thursday, June 4, 2009
Business School Doctor
I’ve first-sighted this curious case of a daytime doctor, night-time malcontent who’s disbursed a decade of his life in med school; the nearest two years stitching up broken bodies. Now, he’s so foully frustrated by his failure to clip a suture in the hollow at the pit of his pocket. He’s elected to refract his career path to business school, and then become a billion-buck banker. I find this haplessly heartbreaking.
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its seems that everyone see the banking industry as this haven of prosperity, it all boils down to the get rich quick (or die trying) mentality of the average joe. i personally understand how it feels to spend a decade of ur life in school preparing for a career only to graduate and be paid peanuts.i mean i would love a career in a respectsble profession but i'll settle for a job that pays well enough that i never have o endure another "trotro"(public bus) ride. but will the banking industry be able to support as all.
ReplyDeleteYes, Anon. I personally feel that many peeps who are at or below the middle level in banks are really sacrificing a lot of intellect to routine. I could never do that.
ReplyDeleteBacl to Dr. Malcontent, I only hope he does not get the MBA only to realise that is not for him either. He must sit down and do some hard thinking. Maybe his real passion is in coconut trees. Then, a coconut farm he must start.
Most Ghanaians are made to believe that medicine is the best thing for everybody. Many brilliant guys get into the field and later realise that their passion is elsewhere and so they make a career change. I know a physician who is now working as a motivational speaker.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that money is necessarily the motivation here. I think many doctors come to a point where they find that their hearts are elsewhere. Why stay in something which you do not love?
Unfortunately for Dr Malcontent, he is only going to add to the current number of the unemployed businessmen, he'll be lucky to even have, a hollow in his pocket this time round.
ReplyDeleteUnless of cos, his passion is elsewhere, who knows,he might just get lucky.
"Why stay in something you do not love" - a very profound (and even dangerous) statement. But very true. Posekyere, I have always wondered if doctors were not more bored than other professionals.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Lucci, but he says he's going straight to the bank.
ReplyDeleteHmm..
ReplyDeleteDoctors who doesn't really want to be doctors should never become doctors. That goes for any profession, but even moreso doctors because they have a lot of responsibility for other people's lives. My friend just told me how she'd tried to go to the doc in Naija and was just rejected no matter what she said
"What can I do to completely make my ulcer go away?" was one of the questions, the answer she got was a laugh and "fix it yourself"
Clearly only someone very unhappy with his job would grow that careless.
Secondly one should never go for things solely because of the money. That's another one of the problems we got. All this getting jobs one doesn't really want or getting jobs only for money but no desire is what leads to a number of jobs not being performed as well as they should!
Oh and I replied to you comment on NoSugarcoating :-)
Dear Ada, I agree with you that people should have a lot of heart involved in their work and not just their heads. The first motive should also not be money.
ReplyDeleteAbraham Maslow, in his Heirachy of Needs stated, for human motivation, food, clothing and shelter are to be satisfied before anything else.(One needs money for that) Self actualization is at the very top. Without the basics, no matter how much you love Medicine(or any other thing), you will hate it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I say do not believe in everything you read, including the Hierarchy of Needs!
ReplyDeleteYes, there are limitations to everything postulated, but it has proven to be true for a large percentage of the populace. I didn't just read it. I was taught it too.;-)
ReplyDeleteIt is not just about reading. For stronger reason, do not believe everything you are taught!
ReplyDeleteAs stated earlier, with limitations to the study in mind, the theory hasn't been disproven, has it?
ReplyDeleteJack of all trade!....sometimes situations makes people jump from one field to the other where they've not been called(profession I mean).There are alot of people who will tell you "this is not what I want to do oh, but I have to do it". There are other group who don't know what (career)to do kraaaa!
ReplyDeleteWell, Naa, I have heard a line that goes something like "some of the most interesting people...do not know what to do with their lives at age 40".
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