The Conflict

My mom said doctors should be paid higher than other professions because it is hard to be a doctor. I totally disagree with this matter. The phrase "higher than other professions" is not acceptable for me. I personally think that other professions also require a lot of effort and sacrifices. Doctors should be paid as high as other professions.

Doctors save people's lives. Engineers make sure that people have a better life with safety provided. Attorneys help to solve society's conflicts through the right channel. Programmers create a channel to let people increase their pocket money with the aid of internet. Engineers, lawyers, programmers etc do have a hard time in becoming one.

Maybe the doctors revision books are thicker than others. Because it is all about fact. Fact of human life can't be cramped in 10 pages. My Werkstoff notes are as thick as 6cm. They contents only on how to do the various types of machining and produce the damn car parts for example. Aren't cars very important in our daily lives?

It is enough that we -engineers, attorneys, programmers- have a lower value literally in the society. SPM 12 A+ should be a doctor. Really? I am not against doctors. I respect them since they are of course professional. But I hate this kind of mentalism. When I decided to be an engineer, a person asked me, "Why don't you become a doctor?" So what if I'm not a doctor?

Sometimes I think due to this double standard, I don't want to become a doctor at the first place. Maybe at that time, I feel sorry for engineers who endanger their lives every minute but hardly seen by people.

This is just my two cents. No offence and no hard feelings.