<p>Why does society scorn those that pursue a course of action despite not falling head over heels for it? Im going to be a doctor because it's a good job that provides good money. In order to earn this money, I will need to study and do the best damn job I can do to provide service to patients. However, dont tell me that I have to love working with sick patients 24/7!</p>
<p>You hear it everywhere: "Do it for the love, not the money." Dont become a doctor because you want the money, do it because you love it. Dont go to Harvard because you love the name, go there because you want to learn."</p>
<p>I honestly dont understand this rhetorical concept. Obviously, whatever path someone takes, one must have minor remote interest in that subject. No matter how much money I'd make as an English professor, I wont do it because I simply hate it. But everyone makes it seem like it's wrong to be motivated by money or fame. The way I see it, this motivation will make the person excel in whatever area he/she chooses. Isnt that the point?</p>
<p>Who cares if the student really loves learning Calculus? As long as the student really wants that A, he will learn all the calculus neccessary. Are you telling me that if I'm not sexually aroused by doing math problems or research but I do it anyways because I want to get into Harvard, I'm a bad person?</p>
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<p>Ok, that just painted a bad picture in my head! haha. PLEASE dont ever mention math problems and sex in the same sentence again! :D</p>
<p>"Are you telling me that if I'm not sexually aroused by doing math problems or research but I do it anyways because I want to get into Harvard, I'm a bad person?"</p>
<p>If there indeed is a person like that in this world than there is a 9/10 chance that s/he is on CC now.</p>
<p>Yeah that person is me. Got a problem with that? </p>
<p>No, just kidding. Wanting money isn't bad becaue you need money to survive and support a family and what not, but wanting fame, in my opinion, is bad.</p>
<p>Hhm, we live in a materialistic society in which we constantly put our materialism down. Perhaps wanting money and fame constitutes as materialism so that is why people say wanting those things are bad.</p>
<p>I would love to have a lot of money. I know how it is to not have money and the more money you have, the easier life can be. Fame? I don't want it. I don't really know why anyone would really want it. Getting famous can lead to lots of money but being famous is a big inconvenience, unless you are the kind of person who doesn't need privacy in your life.</p>
<p>Wanting money isn't bad, as long as it's not just for you. I wouldn't want to be filthy rich, though. It changes people. I like living a little more humbly, raise some kids who aren't spoiled. Fame, on the other hand, is pretty superficial. What do you get? Just a lot of people know your name and what you look like, and half of them hate you and there might even be a few nutjobs that want to kill or marry you, or both.</p>
<p>i like money. i like fame but for me, fame kinda is like - the fame for being good in the profession. So like, I'd like to be famous in (just as an example) plastic surgeory.
johntam, I so totally agree. Sometimes I reckon those people are jealous for rich and famous people lol.
In the old days, people wanted to become doctors to help people. Now nearly everyone who wants to become a doctor is doing that for money. That's the new society. Live with it.
Dont let these kinda people get in your way of your career - they r just jealous and they are afraid (that's what tony robbins says!)</p>
<p>I don't know. I personally would like to make money, but not so much to have the money as to be able to use it to support my family (including my parents as they grow older.) I'd also like a certain amount of fame, not the worship at my feet whatever kind of fame, not the movie star kind but being known in the field of my choice, having people recognize my contributions to society. I know this isn't nessesary, but it'd be nice. After all, who doesn't want to be appreciated? On the other hand, I would never choose a profession based solely on the possibility of money and fame. You spend so much time working in your profession, why make it something you don't enjoy until it's over so that there's less time of your life spent in enjoying it? I think though that overall it's not so much that society thinks it's horrible to want money or fame. I think the issue comes about because of the tactics that so many people use to get it (cheating, manipulation, etc.) In the case of doctors, I think people like the idea of their doctor caring about the job itself because it means they're paying attention to their patients as people and not as paychecks, which might mean the difference between the careful attention needed to diagnose a rare condition or the not so careful attention that makes them just shrug and make a guess (it happens.)</p>
<p>I would also like a certain degree of fame in my field. It would be cool to appear in a magazine for being an expert in something. At least I would want people to know me in the workplace and would actually want to be a somebody. Aim78 does have a point, but I don't think those famous people really care about what others think as long as they're self-satisfied. That's just my opinion.</p>
<p>It's hard to be famous as something like a doctor. Then you're only famous within that community. I can't name a single doctor besides my own, not even the one that performed heart surgery on Clinton recently. They don't get famous, not even if they botch the job. If you're famous within your field, then you're someone like Stephen Hawking, and that still carries just as many negatives as being someone like Tom Cruise.</p>
<p>There's nothing wrong with wanting money or fame, but don't go into medicine if that's the only reason. Contrary to what the OP believes, the monetary incentive won't necessarily make you a good doctor. Medicine in this country is so intensely bureacratized that it takes someone with real passion for their work to stand out and truly help people w/ difficult cases. Patients deserve much more than a money-whoring businessman, although unfortunately that's what they often get.</p>
<p>Wanting money in and of itself is not bad. In fact, very few things or systems in and of themselves are bad.</p>
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<p>Clamoring incessantly for money says something about the subject. It often changes them by making more s/he more favorable to a materialistic way of life, which is inherently less fulfilling and shallows one's sense of thinking about the world in general. </p>
<p>Money can be used for many great purposes, humanitarian or even self-fulfilling. It's unfortunately a necessary part of society. Therefore, what I think is actually bad is not the money itself, but rather the type of mindset that usually, but not always, creates an obsession with it.</p>
<p>I want fame. I want money. There is nothing bad about these things. Striving for these things is a good thing because that means you are looking for success in your life. I don't necessarily want to be a lawyer so I can protect the law. I am very interested in law, politics, and business--this is why I am looking to be a lawyer. But I am also looking to go into this field instead of another one because it pays good and can bring me fame, not necessarily celebrity fame but fame in my field. I want people to look at me and say that I was a very good, successful lawyer...like Johnnie Cochran. Wanting money and fame without working for it, however, is bad. But if you are working for it, then it is a good thing to strive for. </p>
<p>Aim78--That Sanjay Gupta guy on CNN has received fame and is a doctor, because he comes on the news regularly and I think he has his own show. So, you can get fame. LOL...just wanted to point that out...</p>