Is it normal that i feel like i should be a surgeon/anesthesiologist?

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I live in an area where many people have "high-powered" careers in the medical field. My one neighbor is a neurosurgeon. Two neighbors are OB/GYNs and another is a pediatrician. My other neighbor is a pediatric anesthesiologist (super important and difficult, if you want to look it up).

Whenever I think about this kind of work that is very intense, very difficult and very demanding, I feel this pressure to follow on that path... Hearing about people doing these jobs really makes me feel like I'm the stupidest piece of sh*t. Like I'm at uni taking general classes and working my food service job and meanwhile there are people saving lives in the ER and ICU... I feel like I would only be satisfied if I took one of those jobs. The thing is, I am smart and hard-working, I guess, but I don't think I'm smart and hard-working enough.

Hell, I didn't even LIKE studying anatomy or doing dissections in class! I would rather work as a researcher in a lab, but I fear that I wouldn't be satisfied with myself.

Is this normal?

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  • Freedom_
    10 years ago

    Researcher in a lab sounds way cooler to me. Besides I wouldn't want to put my life in someone's hands who didn't even have a passion for the horrible things they must do to me - drugging me and slicing and carving my flesh as blood squirts them in the eyeball. I want the sick bastard with the butcher knife to truly care about his work, not the reputation that comes along with it.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    You should only pursue a path for you, not for others. If this is not where your heart is, don't do it.

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  • Short4Words
    10 years ago

    I won't tell you not to compare yourself to others, because that's what we do but instead I think you shouldn't let them bother you so much. Is it an insecurity about yourself, or is it the environment you're in that makes you feel less than? Because I honestly think if you do what makes you happy, and do it well, that should be satisfying for any person.

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