Why did I pick this career again anyway?

Almost every day I have a thought along the lines of "Why didn't I become a ____, instead?"  Usually the blank is filled with nurse or secretary, today it was person-with-a-desk-job and anything-but-doctor.  Thinking about it a bit more, if I had to list all the characteristics of a my dream job, almost none of them would describe what I'm doing now or what's in my future.

Characteristics I DON'T want in my dream job:

1. Lots of classes: FAIL.  Grade school, college, med school.  Twenty of my twenty five years on this planet were spent as a full-time student.

2. Lots of tests: FAIL.  Grade school, college, med school.  In med school you have 8-hour exams every six weeks for three of the four years.  After the second year, you have a board exam (also 8 hours, but requiring approximately 4-6 weeks of studying 8 hours/day), after third year you have another board exam, then another board exam during intern year, then another to become board-certified after residency, and then to become board-certified after fellowship. Then you have to renew this board certification every ten years for the rest of your career.  Why didn't I become a board exam maker/grader/whatever???

3. Long hours and night shifts: FAIL.  I'm one of those pathetic people who needs eight hours of sleep per night.  And I really shouldn't wake up before 6:00am also.  Too bad I've got about 8 more years ahead of 80+ hour work weeks with lots of night shifts.

4. Lots of confrontation: FAIL.  I am all about everyone being happy.  I'm the one who after the first sign of disagreement goes, "OMG YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT," in order to have to argue.  Medicine is full of confrontation and unfortunately not the field where you can back down when someone's life is on the line.  Luckily, I'm pretty motivated to just do the right thing on my own.

5. No early retirement: FAIL.  Ok the problem is two-fold: first, I have an inordinate amount of debt and will have to work my until I receive social security just to afford a decent living after paying it all off.  Secondly, I'm a very Type A person and will die as soon as I stop working (like sharks that stop swimming) so I'd like to prolong that as much as possible.

6. No opportunity for advancement: FAIL.  Medicine is such a snowballing field (lots of new research published daily) that you're rarely on the leading edge.  I really don't want to do research and most instruments and techniques have already been named so there's not much else to hope for.

7. Constant change: FAIL, FAIL, FAIL.  This is probably my biggest one. I would be perfectly happy to get a job today and do the same exact thing in the same exact place in the same exact way for the rest of my life.  (Ok, not exactly.)  But really, I'm not a big fan of new places, new people, new environment, new rules every month or so.  However, this is what becoming a doctor is all about.  In med school you rotate every 6 weeks, in internal medicine residency you rotate every month (July 1st isn't the only bad day to go to the hospital people..), in fellowship you rotate every month or two, then you have a new job.  That's a lot of freaking change.

I just googled "characteristics of a dream job" and found a poll where you vote for your top choice.  "Creative freedom" and "flexible hours/workplace" were definitely the top two.  WTF?!