My sister's post on the trials and tribulations of graduation from college and finding a conventional job and killing your soul or finding a non-conventional job (or not), nourishing your soul but risk being brokealonescared have promoted this post:
I am, despite my frequent negative commentary on this blog, extremely happy I am a doctor. It is an extraordinary privilege to enter into the secrets of my patients' lives, to be there at the beginning of life, at the end of life, and every phase in between. I see people at their worst, when they are sick, dying, suffering and have nowhere else to turn, and I would not trade it for anything.
So despite the humongous load of debt (300K, to be precise), the long crappy hours, there are moments when i pause and really realize that I love my job.