<p>You’re right, I exaggerated, but the fact that you came on here to rant about the air conditioning of UPS trucks and the heavy lifting of moving packages shows you failed to grasp the point of the UPS driver comparison. UPS driver could have been any above minimum wage paying don’t take your work home with you job that does not require a college degree. The type of job that people don’t picture when they think “I want to be rich” they way they picture doctors and lawyers. There was nothing intended to be specific to the UPS driver. I pulled out those quotes because they’re the punch line to the concept of financial worth of a medical degree. The OP asked if med school is “worth it.” Particularly the time and cost of it. That sounds like a financial question, does it not? The point of the blog post is that if worth is defined simply by money and time, maybe skipping college and being a UPS driver is more worth it than becoming a doctor. Maybe I’m in the minority but that concept was a surprise to me years ago when I learned it. Medicine, unlike many careers (UPS driver again being just one of the many) requires a college degree, an advanced degree (that you pay for - unlike say a PhD or many employers will pay for an MBA), multiple years of training in an arrangement that specifically drives down salaries, only to finally reach the stage you’ve been dreaming of all along and find that the general public thinks you’re being paid too much for you do and not spending enough time with them as you try to pay off the massive debt you’ve acquired and all the time you spent training to be able to help that same public.</p>
<p>I am not the author of the blog post but I’m sure he also didn’t intend to imply that being a UPS driver is a walk in the park. There’s a lot of pressure to get those packages delivered, undamaged, to the right places, and on time. They are heavy, the trucks are uncomfortable, and if we’re “keeping score” of percentage of packages delivered correctly vs # of people cured, they’re probably ahead of physicians by a mile.</p>
<p>I am not complaining about my chosen career path. I am happy where I am because there are many aspects to my career choice that are more important than financial compensation. That’s why I wrote
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