<p>You guys do realize that not every doctor is livin’ large, right? Plenty are making respectable livings, but few are making what the elite surgeons do–because that’s the definition of elite. </p>
<p>And it’s not as if stability and happiness are mutually exclusive. At no point will some omniscient being descend from the heavens and offer you the choice between Happiness in one hand and Stability in the other (and isn’t happiness a sort of stability, anyway?). You all have many years of high school, college, and post-college fumbling in which to learn about yourself: your strengths, your weaknesses, and most importantly, your priorities. </p>
<p>And besides, much of your future is decided by the chance of college admissions, of hearing about internships/jobs from friends and family, of location, of the economy, of post-grad options… So little of your life is determined at this point that even if you said, “I choose happiness!” and decided to be a lawyer, it would hold almost no water.</p>
<p>Which is all to say: chill out.</p>