<p>Cheers,
Thank you for the positive post. My stomach was being to sink after reading this thread. Before my daughter applied to school, she was fortunate to work as an intern at RTKL. She spent her school breaks and the summer after her Jr. year there. All of the people treated her extremely well. When she asked whether they were happy with their profession and if they would rather do something else the answer was the same. All were happy with their decision.
It’s important to remember that the grass always seems greener on the other side. My husband and I are in the medical/health profession. Please stay away from any health related profession or anything that has to do with it including medical research… you’ll wind up working for an HMO and have insurance companies dictate your practice. You’ll graduate after 4 years of college and four years of professional school maybe longer if you decide to specialize and make 30K as a resident for years… working 16 hour days. If you decide to go to graduate school for 5-7 years, you’ll have to do at least a 4 year post-doc and work in a lab for 18 hours a day. For the rest of your life you’ll wind up fighting for grants to keep your job. (My husband was a resident at Penn and made 13K/yr). Yes for real and they were doing him the favor. Most of the world think doctors/dentists make a fortune. Well they don’t and I haven’t even begun about the cost of establishing and running a practice, associated stress and the cost of insurance. I only mentioned the medical profession because of an earlier post. How about emergencies and being oncall (24/7)? I love taking my daughters to work with me, and they loved being with me. Would you like to hear horror stories about being a lawyer?</p>