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MiD DAY on the Web - E-paper- Digital Paper : Mumbai: "Nobody wants to be a doc

At least 8.5 years of academics, assaults by angry relatives and a salary of Rs 2.25 lakh pa in a govt hospital. That's why kids want to do engineering (4 yrs, Rs 3.2 lakh pa) or an MBA (graduation
+ 2 yrs, Rs 8 lakh pa)
By: Sneha Shah and Alisha Coelho
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Once upon a time, medicine used to be called a noble profession. Everyone wanted to be a doctor and to foist interest early on, parents would buy their kids doctor sets, and the kids would play doctor doctor. That was then.
Now, new-age parents do NOT want their kids to do medicine. Ditto their children. Instead, in their thousands, it's engineering and MBA, that the kids have been making a go at. (See the startling figures below).
It means, fewer years of mugging, fatter pay cheques and perks and relatively stress-free jobs as compared toa doctor. >4

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