<p>christ, why is everyone so averse to medicine?</p>
<p>anyway:</p>
<p>9 to 5 office jobs
“blue collar jobs” – i have worked a few jobs in the city that are pretty gritty, and it can best be defined as this: HARD WORK, monotony, and little reward. all in all, at the end of the day, i feel like killing myself. appreciate the people who do those types of jobs, seriously.
engineering</p>
<p>i need a fast-paced, thought provoking job. i like medicine, but i wonder if it would yield what i want.</p>
<p>-anything to do with dead bodies
-engineering
-laborer (mowing yards, construction, factory worker, etc)
-another office job that involves sitting all day long
-anything to do with psychology
-police/ambulance/Emergency Room worker</p>
<p>Teacher - I know it’s a stable job and all, but I got sick of kids after being a T.A for an after school program for 3 years.
Lawyer
Nurse
Pharmacist
Doctor/Surgeon - Blood, blood, blood, needle, needle, needle. =X
Journalism
Anything related to Business or Politics
Office jobs where I’m seated all day with only walks to bathroom or out for lunch. I hate to sit around. I’m more of a Type A person…</p>
<p>9 to 5 job.
anything requiring over ~30% of my time to be spent in an office
anything requiring a suit of some sort
politics
teacher–love kids, but teaching just isn’t what i’d want to do</p>
<p>Professional gambler
Farmer
Nurse - I don’t have the patience to deal with arrogant doctors if I can’t become one
School teacher (being a professor is cool but I don’t have the patience to deal with a class load of whiny school kids)
Anything in the food industry or retail</p>
<p>Anything that involves lifting.(except body builder)
Gardener
Comedian
Actor
Teacher(Were going to have a shortage of these in the next 10 to 20 years)
Professional athlete(sure they get paid a lot and look like there having fun but it’s not worth the injury)
Lawyer
I could go on and on</p>
<p>The terrible hours, the threat of lawsuits (depending on your specialty), the huge amount of memorization and learning involved, and the fact that you will have to watch people suffer and die on a fairly regular basis. </p>
<p>Still, having said that, there’s nothing in this world I would rather be than a doctor.</p>
<p>My first job was cleaning lawns for 10 cents an hour. Worked as a stock boy after that (included changing fluorescent lights, cleaning toilets, sweeping, trash, etc.), then a page in a library, and as a clerk on medical surgical wards (most were female). I brought patients to tests, processed paperwork, charts, brought down the yucky stuff to the lab, once had to help move a body, sometimes worked in the Intensive Care Units and Pediatrics. And then into professional jobs. I don’t know that I’d say not to potential jobs. When you become a parent, you take on a whole bunch of jobs and tasks that you won’t believe until it happens to you. And then you realize that your parents did that for you.</p>
<p>I’ve worked in a wide variety of jobs. You can make most of them interesting if you try.</p>
