hey brwncaddy,
Can you ease up on Dung, if he wants to pursue a career and financial stability is major upside to him wanting to be a dentist then thats fine, as long as he really wants to be a dentist also and treats his patients with respect and fairly. Let me ask you something if they told you today as a genal practitioner physician you would make $35,000/year, would you still be a doctor and bust you butt for 10-12 years, huh, yeah I thought so, it would be worth it even though you still wanna have the "privilege" to help others.. So if you or anybody out there says that money is not at least a minor small fraction of the reason that you want to be a physician or dentist they are simply LYING!!! If dentist and doctors were making $30,00-$40,00/year there would be probably only 1/4 the fraction of doctors there are today and you know it. People like you just want others to believe that money and financial stability is not a reason to be a doctor or dentist, you want others to believe that you want to be a physician and dentist to "help" others. Yes helping others is very important but by all means so is financial stability!! I can honestly say this because I come from a dirt poor family, my father died when I was 18 and I have been living with my mother and 2 brothers on a combined household income of $18,000/year and its hard. How many people can say that. I work two jobs, volunteer, tutor my brothers, and go to school full-time so YES financial stability is a major motivation no matter what you say or if you look down upon it. I dont come from a family making 100K/year like many dental or medical school studetns.