if you were to choose: what would you wanna be: a doctor or a lawyer?

@glay22 (512)
Philippines
December 10, 2008 6:35pm CST
I have always wanted to become a doctor, yet it costs too much to be in medical school. There are a lot of equipments to buy and so many sleepless nights because you go on duty straight for like 36 hours. But, the good thing is.. you get to become famous if you do good and you earn a lot and most important is, you get to save lives. On the other hand, I also want to be a lawyer and be like the girl in legally blonde. Fashionable and smart. I want to protect people who are oppressed and give justice to those who need it. But the downfall is, you have to defend your client even if he did the wrong thing These are two great careers.. How about you, IF you were to choose between the two, what would you wanna be?
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CRSunrise
@CRSunrise (2981)
• United States
11 Dec 08
I'm thinking I would be a lawyer. You don't necessarily have to go to a foreign country to help your client, plus you don't have to worry about getting a disease of some kind.
glay22
@glay22 (512)
• Philippines
11 Dec 08
Yeah, there's a danger that you can acquire the disease of your patient or any type of virus in the hospital and you could get immunosuppresed. A lawyer can just work at home or in a beautiful corporate office.
catmint
@catmint (628)
• Singapore
11 Dec 08
On days when I am terribly argumentative, the people who suffers will mutter 'Thank god you are not a lawyer." I never aspired to be a doctor, I still don't think I will be able to become a doctor. It takes a level of compassion I do not have, looking beyond ugly wounds and stuff to treat a patient. So I guess my choice is a lawyer, but only on days when I am horribly argumentative.
hessyen
@hessyen (176)
• Romania
11 Dec 08
i think i would chose lawyer it is more interesting and i think you would make more money from this
glay22
@glay22 (512)
• Philippines
11 Dec 08
hahahaha.. yup yup.. lawyers are one of those who makes the most money from their work
red_amethyst
@red_amethyst (3518)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
hello glay, although, I both dont like that profession, i will still answer your question. If it is the only choice, i will choose be a doctor. It helps other people get well, and also your family. Being a lawyer is kinda hard especially if your client is someone guilty and yet you will defend that he is not guilty. hope you get my point take care
mehulsarkar
@mehulsarkar (52)
• India
21 Feb 09
a doctor no doubt actually i am in to it.... well about the costs.. am n a government scholarship so its not that much for me... whyi want to become a doc.. well its got lots of facets to the answer one being satisfaction u get when one of ur patient is cured..... second being the respect people give you.... third the responsibility of trusting ones life with you....thats the heaviest responsibility you can ever undertake. and yes of course the money is good, though its not much compared to a lawyer or a solicitor but money with social status and a satisfactory feeling of helping ppl in their lives ..its like icing on a cake.......
yonkie
@yonkie (440)
• Philippines
23 Apr 09
I made a choice already. I am a bachelor of laws graduate. So, basically, I wanna be a lawyer. That what my mother said to me. It's actually my mother's choice. Maybe I also like to become a lawyer since I finished the course. Moreover, I think I will never choose to become a doctor as an ambition. The reasons are I hate blood and I can't stand the smell of hospitals.
Porcospino
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
11 Dec 08
I would prefer to be a doctor. I am very idealistic the idea of curing and helping people really appeals to me. I am interested in medicine and the connection between the body and the mind. When I was younger I read the books of Bernie Siegel, I loved those books and they inspired me a lot. A lawyer is also dealing with people, but in a different way, the relationship between a lawyer and his client to too "superficial" for me. Being a doctor would satisfy my passion to work with people, but working as a lawyer wouldn't give me the same kind of deep satisfaction.
adhavgeek
@adhavgeek (252)
• India
11 Dec 08
non of them comes under my interest..what to do have to select one..lol..i wanna be a doctor..doctor is the only professional which is said to be equal to god..example - just for a imagine, if there were no doctors in this world last ten years..than only 1/2 of the earth population will be alive now..so heads off to doctor professional(only to true doctors)...lol..:) thanks adhavgeek