My cousin just passed LLB (law ) today . I am happy at it . But i am more happy when i asked her about her dream career path . She wants to be a corporate lawyer . Cool name and cool career path though as in everything each of the career paths require its own specific interests as well as positives and negatives . I didnt ask her in depth why she is interested in that path because she is too excited today .
Remaining is purely my opinion and my thoughts ...Long ago as a fresher MBBS there was a cool career or rather a specialty which started getting popular at that time . It was called radiodiagnosis . Like in any specialty choice there should be multiple reasons for taking that career path for me being a career which gives a great work life balance , in touch with the latest technology(with some physics also thrown in ) etc .
And though thinking about money is taboo in our materialistic society a high salary and a early settlement was also a reason for the specialty choice. I had clearly seen looking around that earning a decent livelihood during your best years was next to impossible in many other specialities in that time . And it was not because medical profession was "social service " and doctors were paid paltry sums immediately on passing out . It was because of exploitation of the just passed out doctors not only by hospitals (often owned by non doctors ) as well as a wrong indoctrination that decent earning for the work you do is guilty .Thanks to the costly equipment and also because it was a new specialty with less people radiodiagnosis afforded a very decent salary yet doing "social service " and enjoying the work .
In law also following the traditional route is a long and lengthy process . Nothing wrong in that . But junior lawyers for a long period are paid salaries /stipends which is far below that given for other professions of same or lesser duration courses . Law and medicine definitely contribute directly to the upliftment of soceity and i often felt the paradox in soceitys rewarding system for the professions which contribute more to it .
To make a brief comparison entry level selling jobs get many times the salary of a budding lawyer or doctor . or even teacher .
Of course some people are cut out to be practising lawyers litigating high profile criminal cases in later years . Same is the case with cardiac surgeons etc in medical field . But i still feel during the early years of the career lawyers and doctors are given a raw deal . Some of the youngsters these days are smart enough to realise this and make appropriate decisions but i often feel if the salaries are appropriate more talented people will take up the "traditional " route .
I am still perplexed at the interview i had long time ago for a dubai based hospital . My classmate who finished Masters in medicine was sitting with a sad face while i with a diploma in radiodiagnosis(at that time , i completed my Masters later ) was offered much more salary . Call it demand and supply equation or economics of the professions or simple exploitation i still feel as a soceity we should reward people according to what one does and contributes ..
PS : Every aspiring student should give great importance to his interests in professional or specialty choice . But in addition he should give importance for the benefit he gets for the efforts he puts in without feeling guilty about it . And if you still feel professions are "purely " for social service and not also for earning livelihood should join missionary work or politics .. The latter two has no exams or long study involved ..And lastly i love lawyers who practise in courts as well as neurosurgeons . Make sure that you get your salary /stipend and never get exploited and i am sure the "vocal" new generation can do it ..
Remaining is purely my opinion and my thoughts ...Long ago as a fresher MBBS there was a cool career or rather a specialty which started getting popular at that time . It was called radiodiagnosis . Like in any specialty choice there should be multiple reasons for taking that career path for me being a career which gives a great work life balance , in touch with the latest technology(with some physics also thrown in ) etc .
And though thinking about money is taboo in our materialistic society a high salary and a early settlement was also a reason for the specialty choice. I had clearly seen looking around that earning a decent livelihood during your best years was next to impossible in many other specialities in that time . And it was not because medical profession was "social service " and doctors were paid paltry sums immediately on passing out . It was because of exploitation of the just passed out doctors not only by hospitals (often owned by non doctors ) as well as a wrong indoctrination that decent earning for the work you do is guilty .Thanks to the costly equipment and also because it was a new specialty with less people radiodiagnosis afforded a very decent salary yet doing "social service " and enjoying the work .
In law also following the traditional route is a long and lengthy process . Nothing wrong in that . But junior lawyers for a long period are paid salaries /stipends which is far below that given for other professions of same or lesser duration courses . Law and medicine definitely contribute directly to the upliftment of soceity and i often felt the paradox in soceitys rewarding system for the professions which contribute more to it .
To make a brief comparison entry level selling jobs get many times the salary of a budding lawyer or doctor . or even teacher .
Of course some people are cut out to be practising lawyers litigating high profile criminal cases in later years . Same is the case with cardiac surgeons etc in medical field . But i still feel during the early years of the career lawyers and doctors are given a raw deal . Some of the youngsters these days are smart enough to realise this and make appropriate decisions but i often feel if the salaries are appropriate more talented people will take up the "traditional " route .
I am still perplexed at the interview i had long time ago for a dubai based hospital . My classmate who finished Masters in medicine was sitting with a sad face while i with a diploma in radiodiagnosis(at that time , i completed my Masters later ) was offered much more salary . Call it demand and supply equation or economics of the professions or simple exploitation i still feel as a soceity we should reward people according to what one does and contributes ..
PS : Every aspiring student should give great importance to his interests in professional or specialty choice . But in addition he should give importance for the benefit he gets for the efforts he puts in without feeling guilty about it . And if you still feel professions are "purely " for social service and not also for earning livelihood should join missionary work or politics .. The latter two has no exams or long study involved ..And lastly i love lawyers who practise in courts as well as neurosurgeons . Make sure that you get your salary /stipend and never get exploited and i am sure the "vocal" new generation can do it ..
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