Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: tec699
Originally posted by: Nanotech
If your just now finding out that life isn't fair than your doing just fine.
Oh it happens in other fields as well. Why do sports figures make ungodly amounts of money while scientist make squat. Really thoguh... Who is going to have a bigger impact on our lives? A scientist who finds the cure for cancer or the Lakers when they win another championship?
I like sports and pro athletes have more talent then all of us combined but I don't think Shaq is worth 100 mil for putting a ball into the net. I guess he's able to draw the people into the stadiums so he should be paid accordingly .
I do not care if I get flamed for this or not, but i personally believe it is MUCH harder to be a professional athlete than it is to be a doctor. Why do you think there are so much more doctors in the world than professional athletes? And who plays 'doctor' for fun, not the 1000's of kids playing basketball for fun.
To be an athlete you have to be training from when you were younger than 10 years old, and continue to do so as you grow up. To be a doctor, you can start training when you get into college at the age of 18 or whatever. If you are a professional athlete, by the time you are 18, you pretty much know you are going to be a professional athlete, taking about 10 or 12 years or more already to train for that.
And not just anyone can pick up and be a professional football player at any given time. Anyone can decide at any time though to start hittin the books and become a doctor or scientist, at any time in their life.
Also, athletes bring in MUCH MUCH more money than doctors do. They are also more entertaining to the public eye. Thats just the way the world works, get over it.
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: tec699
Originally posted by: Nanotech
If your just now finding out that life isn't fair than your doing just fine.
Oh it happens in other fields as well. Why do sports figures make ungodly amounts of money while scientist make squat. Really thoguh... Who is going to have a bigger impact on our lives? A scientist who finds the cure for cancer or the Lakers when they win another championship?
I like sports and pro athletes have more talent then all of us combined but I don't think Shaq is worth 100 mil for putting a ball into the net. I guess he's able to draw the people into the stadiums so he should be paid accordingly .
I do not care if I get flamed for this or not, but i personally believe it is MUCH harder to be a professional athlete than it is to be a doctor. Why do you think there are so much more doctors in the world than professional athletes? And who plays 'doctor' for fun, not the 1000's of kids playing basketball for fun.
To be an athlete you have to be training from when you were younger than 10 years old, and continue to do so as you grow up. To be a doctor, you can start training when you get into college at the age of 18 or whatever. If you are a professional athlete, by the time you are 18, you pretty much know you are going to be a professional athlete, taking about 10 or 12 years or more already to train for that.
And not just anyone can pick up and be a professional football player at any given time. Anyone can decide at any time though to start hittin the books and become a doctor or scientist, at any time in their life.
Also, athletes bring in MUCH MUCH more money than doctors do. They are also more entertaining to the public eye. Thats just the way the world works, get over it.
Originally posted by: se7enty7
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: tec699
Originally posted by: Nanotech
If your just now finding out that life isn't fair than your doing just fine.
Oh it happens in other fields as well. Why do sports figures make ungodly amounts of money while scientist make squat. Really thoguh... Who is going to have a bigger impact on our lives? A scientist who finds the cure for cancer or the Lakers when they win another championship?
I like sports and pro athletes have more talent then all of us combined but I don't think Shaq is worth 100 mil for putting a ball into the net. I guess he's able to draw the people into the stadiums so he should be paid accordingly .
I do not care if I get flamed for this or not, but i personally believe it is MUCH harder to be a professional athlete than it is to be a doctor. Why do you think there are so much more doctors in the world than professional athletes? And who plays 'doctor' for fun, not the 1000's of kids playing basketball for fun.
To be an athlete you have to be training from when you were younger than 10 years old, and continue to do so as you grow up. To be a doctor, you can start training when you get into college at the age of 18 or whatever. If you are a professional athlete, by the time you are 18, you pretty much know you are going to be a professional athlete, taking about 10 or 12 years or more already to train for that.
And not just anyone can pick up and be a professional football player at any given time. Anyone can decide at any time though to start hittin the books and become a doctor or scientist, at any time in their life.
Also, athletes bring in MUCH MUCH more money than doctors do. They are also more entertaining to the public eye. Thats just the way the world works, get over it.
Dunno what your schooling was like; but where I grew up "any 18 year old" CANNOT be a doctor.
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