Both are using their skills + time to make money. I wouldn’t necessarily say that one way is better than the other. Do what you love

You say that you don’t want to do an MBA because of “wasted” income and getting old? I figure from you name that you are not enjoying medicine. So it would seem that you are wasting time doing something that you don’t enjoy.

As for getting old, age is all relative.. There is no template anywhere that says after the age of xx (insert your own age) that you can’t obtain so and so degree, or you can’t succeed at something because you are too old. The only thing stopping you is your own insecurities.

Business is a risk but so was medical school. You could have failed at that too. Your chances of success are dependent upon the effort that you put into it.

If you want something different, go for it!

I chance upon your website from google.

As a medical person, how is it like to make a transition from a practioner to a business person (assuming in a non-medical related field)? Most of Medical training trains doctors to be risk adverse and always arrived at the correct answers or else (some dies or we get sued). We are so afraid to fail, owing to our education.

Also, we tend to be rather dead serious in our talk and tend to ‘look down’ at sales people. Whereas in business, we need to sell ideas, services, products and our brand name. Was thinking of doing MBA, but then it’s another 2 years of getting old and wasted income.

Do you know of any good number of physicians who have successfully make the jump? (besides yourself)