Grass is greener . . .

I was just talking to my bro the other day about where we each are in our careers/lives and where we want to go. As an entrepreneur, he’s feelin’ the pains of the economic recession pretty hard on his business and thinking about going into the recession proof health care industry whereas I am three years into my health care “experiment” in which I would get a sense of whether I loved being a doctor enough to give up doing business. Its funny because both of us are looking at the greener grass and wanting to be there. Myself, missing the excitement of a big transaction or the “pie in the sky” while Uly wanting a simple non-stressful office based practice that pays a steady annuity with good health benefits down the road. The story is not quite so clear cut in the sense that both of us are ultimately want both. Some sense of stability punctuated by periods of excitement and risk taking. Ultimately, I think we will both have a little bit of both.

All of this does give me pause as to whether I am glorifying that other world of business too much in my mind and forgetting the downsides of uncertainty and frustration that come with risk taking. We’ll see what happens . . . Admitted Students Weekend at Tuck is next week!