Larry Weidel argues that 40% of doctors and 40% of lawyers regret their careers by age 40, mostly because pay doesn't match expectations. He says people pick careers based on what sounds good, then find the reality disappointing, and pushes you to reconsider what actually matters: the work itself or the money and scale.
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I love what you said, that you can have greatness in your life if you make the right choices. And most people make the mistake of choosing to do something that they would like. Think I'd like to be their life pilot, I think I'd like to be a this, I think I'd like to be a that. And they find out very quickly that airline pilots don't like it all the time. 40% of all doctors don't want to be doctors anymore. 40% of all lawyers, by the time they reach 40, you don't want to be in law anymore because it's. They don't like it like they thought they'd like it. This fantasy of again, most people, they want a career, they want a perfection, and they just want to be happy. They go through it, but they end up going in there saying, I don't know, I don't like what I'm doing, I don't like my boss, I don't like this, I don't like that. And mostly they don't like what they're being paid. That's they didn't get in it for the money, but they get out of it because there's no money in it.