Career advancement....vs...???

Had some trouble with our machine at work today, finally the engineer came...fm S'pore...so he's doin his job when out of d blue I have sudden 'inspiration' to ask...
"So you fly in & out of different countries most of the time?"
"Yeah, it can get v tiring, especially since I dont like to travel"
"Ok, I guess that means u fly out for a couple of weeks then head back to home base only for 3 days, that kind of engineer job level?"
"THANK GOD no...I would quit straightaway..family wouldn't be able to take it"
"Hmm..I know a medical engineer who's semi-permanently posted overseas, 6 mths at a time.."
"OMG, hw can the family stand it?"

Basically at this point I realised we in the medical field do sacrifice quite a bit...I mean lets take our resident surgeon, who flies in in the morning, does the surgery & flies out at night or 1st thing the next day back to Singapore to attend to patients there...or our own local doctor who 4 nights out of 7 is on duty, as is his wife...or lets take my own boss who goes home at 7 almost every night, sometimes coming back to work at midnight when there's emergencies, or Sundays..I mean...are we missing something here? Strive to save so many lives, or make others' lives better,neglect our own...for what?Doctors (overseas) with high divorce rates, neglected families...or singles in this field whose time is so sapped up by work that personal & social life becomes stunted (I personally know 1)...I guess that is the price to pay...its like nursing, its a vocation *a job not for the sake of working but for the interest to sacrifice for others* all too often people work for the wrong reasons....maybe a step back for re-evaluation will work wonders....does wonders for professionalism as well within the job...anyway enough ranting & raving....for now...Im off to re-evaluate my life...

So what?

I swear thickness in the head...can be correlated to density of bone matter in the abovementioned place...I mean seriously how many times do I need to say the same thing so that someone will get it?Ok fine..lets put it this way, isnt it not the mature thing to do that since there is really no other intentions other than to make social contacts, to make allowance for social contact?N seriously, there should be no ultimatum as to choice between the abovementioned or friendship..especially when it involves contacts potentially to further potential business relations...OK since this is my blog...I might as well let it all hang out...peeps...someone please justify spreading rumors abt losing temper & slapping the table BUT not mentioning this fact: when in fact the same person had already asked me to 'settle it outside'..THRICE!!! As in all-out down n dirty caveman style brawling...For God's sake, grow up!!! Since Im whining here might as well let it all out...so anyway I believe I have my right to talk to any person I want, make contacts with any person I want, without the perception that by doing that means automatically hitting on the person...THIS I believe is the mature way of thinking...otherwise this whole world would come to a standstill where by talking to any girl means hitting on them?Please duh!! And since Im on this topic...no sane person would ask his friend to choose between 1)friendship and 2)not contacting a girl which is liked not by me, for possibly business relations purposes...I mean, which would you choose? So in the reality, to choose 1 means that whenever I see that girl, at a social funtion organised by daddy for business friends...I should turn away n avoid her?? What rubbish and its sad to listen to such drivel...peeps feel free to comment...& I maintain my stand on this matter...On a brighter note, today went well at work for me!!!yippeeee!!!!!