| Just a middle aged MD perspective: If you are concerned about debt, there are medical jobs that will pay off your loans up to 200,000 if you do research or underserved population work for 3-5 years. Some of these jobs are in prestigious research institutions.
PS:
If you want to work off debt, it really helps to delay having children because care costs and responsibility are such that either the mother stays home and foregoes her salary, you put the child in daycare for a minimum of 300/week, or hire a 30-40K plus nanny per year. I love children but am glad that I had no debt by mid 30s to pay for top quality care and education. |