If I do MD/PhD then that adds on an extra four years to my bio clock, meaning I would have to get pregnant during residency. And I want my 4 kids to each be a year apart from one another, so just wondering if 4 pregnancies during residency is possible.
Because if she spaces them out she can use each individual child during the college application process to solicit more financial aid from the schools. "Child #1 got $50,000. You better at least say a full ride for #3"
Hmm. I guess youre right since residency can be stressful at times. It might be a better idea to have 2 kids during my phd years, and 2 kids during residency.
It's okay if the kids keep me up. I will sacrifice anything for my future children.
But I need to make at least 180k to have 4 kids, so that they live comfortably and get college paid for.
I don't think there would be any interviews... If streampaw is for real, she would be too narcissistic to even feign presenting herself as a likable person. Can you imagine the LORs?
Eh, I suppose I am a narcissist, but I docare about family. I just want the best of the best for my children, and dont want them to be isolated and hopeless like I was.
It is despicable to care about family more than career? More than other people who are not a part of your family? How dispicable. Lol.
How exactly is it too far?
Look. If you're truly not a troll, good for you. You have some idea what you want to do. Some aspects of it may be far fetched, but you have a dream, and a goal, and that is what matters. If you want to be rich, that's great. I like money. Lots of people like money. But don't join the field solely to get money. You aren't guaranteed to make it big. You may never get to medical school. If you want your kids to have a great life, that's fine too. There's nothing wrong with that. But these kids you want to have will be living breathing human beings with their own thoughts and emotions. Perhaps your future kids will not want that path. You don't necessarily know how they will turn out. Perhaps you should just take it slow. While it's nice to have a plan, some things you truly need to take day by day.
You don't HAVE a family yet. And since you don't seem to care about medicine for its own sake, you really make no sense to me...medicine is HARDLY known as a family-friendly career path.
Doctors can generally choose how many hours to work a week. Especially derms. From what I read on other sdn posts. I will not settle for any boring sorting-papers job that makes 60k a year. I need at least 180k a year for my kids to get what they want.
In all fairness some people legitimately do this..
I think in this situation she's using sorting papers to describe performing mundane tasks, not specifically sorting papers
I think they fail to understand the impact of such tasks though. Sure, everyone wants to be the master doctor who cures everyone and has a witty catchphrase and all that jazz, but you aren't always going to be that doc. Chances are, you're rarely if ever going to be that doc. But that doesn't mean filing paperwork and counting pills isn't just as important. Heck, counting pills can be the difference between life or death (in certain situations)
