Infinite_Truth

Medical Lawyer mabye?

namaste

so much linear thinking in this thread

UCLAri

imaginationpower,

Don't get me wrong: I think it's doable. I'm sure some do it. However, it's not something that someone should necessarily plan his or her life around. It's more realistic to plan for one, complete it, and see how things turn out.

Financial situations don't change the actual finance of the exercise. It's very expensive and very time consuming.

dtex50

"so much linear thinking in this thread"

Having gone the negative exponential route: GED>>>(22 years later)>>>Ph.D., M.D., I sometimes wonder what a nice linear approach would have been like.

StitchInTime

My son had a rare childhood disease, Henoch-Schönlein Purpura or HSP, that stumped his pediatrician and several emergency room doctors at one of this nation's top children's hospital. He had a fairly severe case that ended up affecting his kidneys. It still sends chills down my spine when I reflect back on the helplessness I felt as my son's blood-red urine came out of him.

He was eventually properly diagnosed and treated with the help of a dedicated and professional pediatric rheumatologist. Beyond his well deserved fee, my son's specialist was hopefully 'well compensated' with my tearful gratitude.

This thread has documented some of the problems in the medical profession. Its my hope that the truly dedicated will perceive the glass as being 'one quarter full' even with all its challenges.

In our society, few professions can say that they're in the business of saving lives. Doctors, and first responders alike, still deserve our gratitude and respect.

futurenyustudent

I've been interested in international aviation law, though I have no idea what it really entails. Not that I'll specialize in that, since the market for it seems pretty small, but yeah, um I guess it's a branch of law that deals with aviation and all kinds of regulations that go with it.

mrego

Do what you love, however...Beware...
First, they outsourced the factory workers...
Then, they outsourced the service industry workers...
And next the doctors and lawyers and politicians...
But I didn't care, until they outsourced the I-bankers.
And now we're all unemployed and poor.

talktobrent

I've heard several times in the media that colleges are handing out far more Law degrees than there is demand for jobs these days. I swear half the people you talk to who are currently in college, say they want to go to law school.

futurenyustudent

Well, there is a difference between someone who's a lawyer fresh out of law school, who's been working towards a JD since, like, high school, vs. someone who decided on a whim on the first day of college (me) vs. someone who decided after graduating that since they can't get a job they're going to law school. The former two categories are probably more likely to succeed in the legal profession, since they invested much more time and effort into it.

Once you get your law degree, you still have to pass the bar.....and if you don't have an exactly clean criminal record, you might not be admitted to practice. Some people fail the bar, and then some people who pass fail the background check.

futurenyustudent

Whatever. The legal profession may be oversaturated, but top law firms are still banging down law students' doors when they see the name of a top4 law school on their resume.

utexas2010

The reason why lawyers are so unhapppy is because many of them put thier whole lives into big law firms but MANY legal jobs are well paying without the streesful number of hours. You can do so many things with a law degree its rediculous. I am pursuing a career as an agent which doesnt require a law degree but it will be helpful for the legal aspects of representation. You can do work in real estate, coorporate (including investment banking), patent attorney, divorce attorney, etc... all of these can be done independently with some connections and no big slave law firm is needed to succeed

I want to see the specific statistics about lawyer dissatisfaction and see what % of those that reported were from big law and how many were independent and or medium firm. My guess would be alot of the dissatisfied lawyers were the ones stressing to become partners which requires insane hours

alipes07

If you want to save lives, why not become a volunteer firefighter?

aibarr

This thread kind of turns my stomach, and makes me a little bit angry.

I'm an engineer. My husband's a composer. I'm from a two-physician family, my husband's mother is a high school chemistry teacher.

My parents would gripe about unbearable HMOs and their declining control over patient care. I gripe about redoing 60% of the designs that I do (no exaggeration) because the client still can't decide where they want the walls when we're halfway through constructing the building. My husband gripes about the politics and serious game-playing in academia.

No career is perfect!! What is with all this disillusionment? Have you all NEVER had job satisfaction? Have you NEVER had a day where you helped someone, or made a difference, or changed someone's mind? This life is all about saying, "I created that. I helped that person. I gave that person good advice."

Is money really what it's all about? My family's darkest times were the ones when we had plenty of money. I was born when my dad was in medical school, and I remember not having any of the vogue toys of the era, but I used to love to set up plastic cups at the end of the hall and go bowling with my brother, or make brownies and frost them like dominos. Then we'd play dominos with the brownies. We'd finger-paint in pudding because it was cheaper than finger paint (added bonus: didn't taste lousy when you ate it). Nowadays, we have BMWs and Corvettes and no family. What a stellar trade.

My husband and I work hard for our money, we don't make a ton, but we chose professions that we love and we're happy for it and for the most part, we're climbing out of our student loans and can manage to buy something cool for ourselves every now and then. It's going to be harder when we start our family and when I have to cut back my currently-long hours to something more manageable, but we're going to be okay.

Y'know what? If you love medicine, go into medicine. If you love the law, go into law. If you love writing music, write music (but marry an engineer). Yes, less money is going to cause more stress, but if it's not one thing, it'll be another... Life is stressful at best. If you think you're going to be happy if only you have a ton of money, you're going to be unpleasantly surprised when you end up with a handicapped child, or when your spouse dies at a young age, or when bad things happen to good people. All you can do is to do your best, do what makes you happy, and try not to go into debt. If you want to provide a better life for your children, try to teach them how to be happy and how to pursue their passions.

lkf725

Amen aibarr...very well said!