Engineering vs. Physician Salary Recovery Time (chances are you will never catch

[Lokhtar]

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In an ideal world I'd study physics and go to grad school. In reality its suicide. Science is a joke in America. I'm working towards a career in medicine because it pays well, its stable, and its mildly interesting.

"Follow your dream" is bad advice. Not only is it bad, it's potentially life-destroying advice. This is the real world where bad choices have consequences. Living on $40k/year or having to move cross-country for a job might seem fine when you're 22 years old. But it's crap when you're 32 years old, and unbearable when you're 42 years old.

It's also unbearable when you realize that you despise 90% of your waking hours.

 

[blehm98]

It's also unbearable when you realize that you despise 90% of your waking hours.

yes, happiness and life-satisfaction are far more correlated with job satisfaction than with income. If you love your job you're much more likely to be happy than if you make twice that and absolutely hate it. Stuff like doctoring that sucks up gigantic amounts of time will generally only make this worse

 

[Captain Fantastic]

ah, young grasshopers you have much to learn

 

[GooseWing]

please let this thread die

 

[slatermd]

please let this thread die

While it's still at the top of the cue, let me second this.

This thread licks.

Let it die.