How to make money during medical school?

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calipremed5768 said:
So she made 66k a year bartending? And that’s a low estimate assuming school was only 30k. And I would say it if it was about his guy friend. Does being politically correct mean living in a fantasy land where all logic and reason goes out the window? I never even said what else she was doing. Maybe she has a rich bf, is an online poker whiz, deals drugs, successful at trading options. I’m just saying it’s impossible for a part time bartender to make that
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My dad makes about 70k a year just bartending. Most of it is from tips.
 
1. The hours and number of shifts were impossible
2. The tip rate is usually only that high on weekends
3. There’s still 80k to make up based on my very liberal estimate
 
AnatomyGrey12 said:
Oh you have much, much to learn . 🤣


Don't let her see this homie, you'll be on the couch in no time. I may or may not be speaking from experience 😉



Easy now, let's reign the faux outrage in a few thousand yards.....
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I'm straight chilling. I just call people out, much like you did.
 
calipremed5768 said:
Almost all of my friends in med school from my undergrad (Stanford/MIT/Chicago) have said undergrad was much harder and it wasn’t even close
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Gonna agree with you here. I am not from a top undergrad, but every MED student I have talked to has said the material is far easier, everything fits together in a much more coherent way (like what you are learning is actually applicable) and you don’t have to worry about any ECs if you really don’t want to. The difficulty, so I have heard, is simply a matter of both volume and willingness to study. In MED school, if you are comfortable where you are at then you can stop and not worry too much. Or you can keep going and eek out those ever important points. This is anecdotal and will vary by person.
 
calipremed5768 said:
Almost all of my friends in med school from my undergrad (Stanford/MIT/Chicago) have said undergrad was much harder and it wasn’t even close
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MemeLord said:
Gonna agree with you here. I am not from a top undergrad, but every MED student I have talked to has said the material is far easier, everything fits together in a much more coherent way (like what you are learning is actually applicable) and you don’t have to worry about any ECs if you really don’t want to. The difficulty, so I have heard, is simply a matter of both volume and willingness to study. In MED school, if you are comfortable where you are at then you can stop and not worry too much. Or you can keep going and eek out those ever important points. This is anecdotal and will vary by person.
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Yes and no. Just passing medical school is not hard. The better you want to do the harder it gets. The level of difficulty is exponential the more towards the top you want to be.
 
calipremed5768 said:
1. The hours and number of shifts were impossible
2. The tip rate is usually only that high on weekends
3. There’s still 80k to make up based on my very liberal estimate
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36 hours a week, tip rate was like that on a slow day, weekends were much higher, sleep during classes (non-mandatory) study on shift and/or a couple hours a day, reduce to 20ish hours a week during M3, drive on.

I am not saying she was successful, she is in a meh family medicine residency in PGY3 now, but it is in her hometown exactly where she wanted to be. So, yah.
 
AnatomyGrey12 said:
Yes and no. Just passing medical school is not hard. The better you want to do the harder it gets. The level of difficulty is exponential the more towards the top you want to be.
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Sounds about like my undergrad philosophy. If 2 hours a week gets me a 93% but it would take 8 hours a week to get a 98%...I will just stick with the 2 hours because a 93 and a 98 are the same to me on paper lol same reason I only did 2 hours a day every other day for MCAT studying. It is just diminishing returns and prestige matters zero.
 
How do you study on shift though when you have enough volume to be making 100+ an hour in tips
 
MemeLord said:
Sounds about like my undergrad philosophy. If 2 hours a week gets me a 93% but it would take 8 hours a week to get a 98%...I will just stick with the 2 hours because a 93 and a 98 are the same to me on paper lol same reason I only did 2 hours a day every other day for MCAT studying. It is just diminishing returns and prestige matters zero.
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Yeah except now it's more like 40 hours a week will get you B's.
 
calipremed5768 said:
How do you study on shift though when you have enough volume to be making 100+ an hour in tips
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She had her own flash cards like Zanki, but bar patrons could ask her the questions and the like. If she got it right she added a dollar to your tab if she got it wrong she took a dollar off. Pretty easy. Then people would just tip on top. Her tips her less from volume and more from being an attractive and flirtatious bartender. You severely underestimate the willingness of drunk men to give money to pretty women just for existing.
 
I mean even if she was serving 40 drinks an hour at $10 per drink on average (expensive bar) with a 20% tip on average (even rich people usually don’t give much more than this as they look out for their money very closely) = $80 per hour. Also 40 drinks per hour seems like a lot. It’s a bar not a frat house, people probably aren’t downing gin and tonic after gin and tonic
 
calipremed5768 said:
I mean even if she was serving 40 drinks an hour at $10 per drink on average (expensive bar) with a 20% tip on average (even rich people usually don’t give much more than this as they look out for their money very closely) = $80 per hour. Also 40 drinks per hour seems like a lot. It’s a bar not a frat house, people probably aren’t downing gin and tonic after gin and tonic
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You underestimate the price and percentage of tips that people give in Las Vegas hotel bars.
 
MemeLord said:
Absolutely sperm, in every aspect. You can get paid as much as $800, as little as $50, for sperm donations and the average ejaculate is less than a mil. Blood donation is usually unpaid, plasma donation is usually $50 for about half a litre.
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In the late eighties, sperm donation paid $50 a pop, seems like it’s been been flaccid since.
 
Makes sense. That’s the only place I go when I’m in Vegas. I’m glad there isn’t a casino within a 1.5 hour radius from where I live tbh
 
calipremed5768 said:
Makes sense. That’s the only place I go when I’m in Vegas. I’m glad there isn’t a casino within a 1.5 hour radius from where I live tbh
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You would hate the PNW... So many reservations each with its own casino. I have...7(?) casinos within 1.5 hours. Don’t go to them, but they exist.
 
I’d be broke. I love the rush. Better cure for the lives of quiet desperation most lead than any other vice imo
 
Also, completely off topic but we are talking about sperm now so the topic is irrelevant:

I found the perfect meme to describe Walt’s quick demise upon return and Cali’s on-off relationship with probation:

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Story time! Since we are still sort of on this topic (and how often does this topic come up on SDN?). In my A&P class we learned about the specific sugars and proteins that make up semen. One of the students in the class said, “salt isn’t one of the ingredients. Why is semen salty?” The professor didn’t have a good answer, but the first thing that came to my head was, “well sweat is definitely salty” but I wasn’t interested in continuing the discussion. Good times in the reproductive unit. I’m sure it will be x100 in med school haha
 
calipremed5768 said:
-MCAT tutoring
-Options trading
-Card counting (not good enough yet)

Any other ideas? I don’t really think moonlighting is an option until PGY2
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Options trading would be #ByeMoney haha
MCAT tutoring especially via private clients can generate good cash flow!
 
MemeLord said:
The more I look into it the more I like FM. I am not gunning for anything. If I get into a top school with dope FA then that will be even more reason to follow through on FM or PM&R. I just wanna treat people and do procedures 4 days a week, have some chickens and a garden, and travel.
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I also for the longest time wanted to do FM. Most of my specialty interests are relatively easy to match into because I wanted a broader scope of practice.

Unfortunately I did become interested in a more difficult to get into specialty so I'll have to work harder than I anticipated for that sole reason.

FM is very underrated and I really don't like the perspective SDN gives off of it. An individual really needs to evaluate the rats race after a certain point and consider whether it aligns with their goals or not. Busting a** merely to bust a** isn't always the best idea.
 
Unfortunately I’m only interested in plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, or cardiology (high power). Now I think med school will be harder than expected 🙁
 
Sunbodi said:
I also for the longest time wanted to do FM. Most of my specialty interests are relatively easy to match into because I wanted a broader scope of practice.

Unfortunately I did become interested in a more difficult to get into specialty so I'll have to work harder than I anticipated for that sole reason.

FM is very underrated and I really don't like the perspective SDN gives off of it. An individual really needs to evaluate the rats race after a certain point and consider whether it aligns with their goals or not. Busting a** merely to bust a** isn't always the best idea.
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Might consider Med/Peds as well as family medicine. You may “miss out” on OB/gyn, but in many areas insurers are leery of non-OBs doing C-sections; also I think the days of family medicine guys doing appys are ended/coming to an end.
 
calipremed5768 said:
Unfortunately I’m only interested in plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, or cardiology (high power). Now I think med school will be harder than expected 🙁
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Why not CT instead of cardiology if you like surgery?
 
premed20172017 said:
Do people have time to work in med school? I always thought it was different than college in that respect.
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The large majority do not.
And relatively few have skills that would be worth what they would lose in tuition by repeating a year.
 
premed20172017 said:
Do people have time to work in med school? I always thought it was different than college in that respect.
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ONLY if they are exceptional at time mgt.

I had one student who thought that he could still maintain his consulting business.

He failed the Fall semester of OMSI and had to repeat the year.
 
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