Originally Posted by Unregistered

Medicine is a long slog. Long course. Then long hours housemanship. MO. Calls. People who don't do medicine themselves wont truly understand how tedious and long it is. Everyone at some stage will ask themselves why are they doing this? If you are young, still single, no kids, first job is doctor, lots of life in the future you can tell yourself hey maybe the pay off later will be fantastic (in most cases it is not unfortunately), basically bluff yourself to keep at it.
If you are mature, married. Kids. Done other jobs before. You will know it is crazy. Especially when it is a long marathon which you probably have to do till you retire around age 65-70. It is NOT like some field where you work really really hard no sleep for 10-15 years and then cash out and retire at age 40-50 (think bankers and finance, traders).
So GP is one option. It pays enough. You will never be rich. You can still have a pretty comfortable life. Provide for the family. Might never retire. But if you enjoy the work it's good.