Which college career is actually what it's made out to be? (example) let's say I want a career that helps people or humanity, when I look deeper into career choices, almost everything is corrupt (the medical industry, green/environmental business, military, lawyers)
It just seems that today, helping people isn't profitable.. If I wanted to be a doctor, all I'm doing is prescribing drugs that have more side effects than help to my patients... If I wanted to be a psychologist, all I'm doing is comparing my patients to the 'norm' and telling them that if they don't fit that, they have a disorder or need to conform.. If I wanted to be a lawyer so much of the people I will represent will be criminals (business criminals, standard criminals), there's simply no money in helping only good people, even then, how do you determine someone's intent? If I wanted to be a 'green innovator' making electric products and such, in the bigger picture it's just a market ploy. Electric cars still need to be hooked up to the power grid to charge, and power is generated from plants which pollute. Military, well it would be treason if I was ordered to kill a civilian, and did not want to, yet a war crime if I did. Teachers just reiterate standardized college material to their students, tell them it's for their own good if they conform to our imperfect society, get a job, get in debt ect..
Politics doesn't cross my mind for a second, I dare not try and publicly solve this worlds problems I don't want cold steel in my head or a mock sex scandal to follow me for interfering with big businesses choke hold on our society..
Honestly, the only career that I see as actually getting paid to help people is a surgeon. I don't even want to think about trying to afford all those years in training or seeing all those guts and blood.. Impossible at my expense...
What do you guys think?
It just seems that today, helping people isn't profitable.. If I wanted to be a doctor, all I'm doing is prescribing drugs that have more side effects than help to my patients... If I wanted to be a psychologist, all I'm doing is comparing my patients to the 'norm' and telling them that if they don't fit that, they have a disorder or need to conform.. If I wanted to be a lawyer so much of the people I will represent will be criminals (business criminals, standard criminals), there's simply no money in helping only good people, even then, how do you determine someone's intent? If I wanted to be a 'green innovator' making electric products and such, in the bigger picture it's just a market ploy. Electric cars still need to be hooked up to the power grid to charge, and power is generated from plants which pollute. Military, well it would be treason if I was ordered to kill a civilian, and did not want to, yet a war crime if I did. Teachers just reiterate standardized college material to their students, tell them it's for their own good if they conform to our imperfect society, get a job, get in debt ect..
Politics doesn't cross my mind for a second, I dare not try and publicly solve this worlds problems I don't want cold steel in my head or a mock sex scandal to follow me for interfering with big businesses choke hold on our society..
Honestly, the only career that I see as actually getting paid to help people is a surgeon. I don't even want to think about trying to afford all those years in training or seeing all those guts and blood.. Impossible at my expense...
What do you guys think?