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The good thing about being a doctor...

• People automatically think you're smart.
  
• Dress code at work = scrubs = pajamas!
  
• Your credit score jumps 100,000 points the day you get your degree.
  
• Improving other people's lives = great job satisfaction.
  
• You finally understand the ingredients in cough medicine.
  
• Your girlfriend's parents think you have a respectable job.

The bad thing about being a doctor...

• The work hours are terrible...
  
• So is taking the responsibility of other people's lives.
  
• People automatically assume you're rich.
  
• Kids always think you're going to stick them with a syringe.
  
• Your profession actively tries to eliminate the need for itself.
  
• You don't want to talk about what you do for a living with strangers because inevitably it comes down to strangers showing you a disgusting skin lesion on their body and asking for your medical opinion.