<p>In pretty much any profession, you are going to at least start with one or more bosses (note that not all bosses are bad or overbearing or breathe down your neck) unless you start your own company. As a doctor, you will have to go through a residency. As a junior engineer, you will have a manager. Being a professor in sci/eng offers a lot of independence, but you have to go through a PhD program and possibly one or more postdoc fellowships, where your PI is your boss.</p>
<p>Even if you start your own business, while you may not have a boss, you will have the investors who are providing you funding breathing down your neck (and you will have those from whom you are trying to get funding critiquing your innovative plans). And even if you are a professor, you will be accountable to the people who are funding you. Being a medical doctor in private practice, which does have a high degree of independence once you make it there, is not normally very innovative, and if you work for a hospital or university, where there might be more chance for innovation, you don’t get as much independence.</p>
<p>My point, or one of them anyway, is that there will always be tradeoffs.</p>