<p>Although you make a lot, don't you feel ****ty about your work? I mean, I'm trying to decide between premed and business, and I'd like to know if there's something morally satisfying about business that I just don't see. Don't you get jaded with your work? I can't decide if the money one could make in business is enough of an incentive to pursue such an unsatisfying field.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to troll you guys, but I don't see anything in business besides affluence.</p>
<p>It can be very satisfying "business" is a very broad range and there are thousands of different careers you can get into by studying business. The misconceptions regarding business majors are abundant indeed. Not every business graduate will end up in banking/finance. Retail, Marketing, Consulting, HR.....many different fields you can go into which can be very gratifying. Business can be a very gratifying experience especially when handling decisions that involved millions of dollars on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Business innovations are vastly more powerful, although often less obviously personal, than the help provided by, say, a physician. Researchers can research all they want and physicians can diagnose all they want, but without the capital markets to bring drugs to bear on the market neither of them has any power to help patients. And that's just one example.</p>
<p>Computer innovations, as brilliant as they are, would never have changed society without their business underpinnings. The agricultural sector which has dramatically reduced starvation in the US has done so through using business financing to bring together different technologies, from storage to transportation. From clothing to food to medical devices to computer technology to home building, each of these innovations has not just one but many prominent, very talented business executives behind them.</p>
<p>The fact that they are well-compensated -- or that some of them abuse their positions -- should not detract from our understanding of the value that they provide our society. I suspect that a society with no businesses whatsoever would suffer far more than a society with no doctors or no lawyers, although of course any of the three would be miserable.</p>
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<p>Frankly, whether or not there is something "morally" satisfying about my work never crossed my mind. I could give a $hit less about that. That being said, some of the greatest philanthropers this world has ever seen were businessmen.</p>
<p>So, there is possibly potential for you in the field of business, but your true calling is probably more along the lines of working a soup kitchen.</p>
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<p>Why would you want to work in a field where you were not satisfied? I would want to shoot myself if I had to go into a hospital-like environment everyday and work with sick people. To each their own. There is no reason to do something you don't want to do.</p>