<p>Out of these Careers, which do you think is the most stable, with your experiences?</p>
<p>Accounting-Graduate with a good gpa, Work for a Big 4, Get the CPA, branch out on your own</p>
<p>Medicine-Dental & Pharmacy-more schooling, but a guarantee of a stable salary and good prospects after graduation</p>
<p>Law-Need good grades in undergrad to even get to a good Law School, then Need to be top of the class to get a good job</p>
<p>Out of these three I would rank 1. Accounting, 2. Dent and Pharm, and 3. Law</p>
<p>Do you guys agree from people you know?</p>
<p>Accounting is #1 because less of a time commitment and accountants are always needed. Dent and Pharm are intriguing but its hard enough to get in, but besides that there’s a guarantee that you’ll be successful. Law is wishy washy, because you need good grades throughout, i’ve heard a joke that says what is a law student that graduates at the bottom of the class, unemployed, what is a dental or pharm student that graduates at the bottom of the class, Doctor</p>
<p>What’s your opinions on out of these three are the best?</p>
<p>Each of those careers requires a lot of time commitment, so you really need to like what you are doing. Otherwise, you’ll burn out or hate your life. The best occupation for you is the one that you would actually like doing the best.</p>
<p>that’s interesting. I’ve gotten that advice a lot. What if money is a way towards your happiness. Would it matter what occupation you partake in as long as you benefit humanity in some way, each of those careers can help benefit society in some way, and make a modest amount while doing so</p>
<p>Having enough money to pay the bills and do the things you want to do is obviously important. But ellemenope is right. These three careers are as different as night and day. So questions re: which is best or which is most stable make little sense. The real question is “Which would I most enjoy doing?” One other thing…There is also a huge amount of variability within some careers. For example, a person would make very different amounts of money and get very different kinds of satisfaction from corporate law versus criminal law versus family law.</p>
<p>^Most dentist are self-employed and some pharmacists are as well. I would say pharmacy has the most career flexibility. Also, accountants tend to work longer hours and the starting salaries are nowhere near as high as pharmacists. However few people could make it through the educational requirements for dentistry or pharmacy with only money driving them.</p>
<p>remember that given the state of the economy, it would be really hard to find a job as a lawyer. if obama’s healthcare plan is passed, then there will be more patients and a higher demand for doctors.</p>
<p>I don’t know one person who regrets a law degree even when they are not practicing attorneys. I couldn’t stand to be an accountant so stability is only relevant if you love what you’re doing.</p>
<p>There are career counselors at most schools. I would take advantage of that resource and have some assessments and counseling on what is a good fit for you. There is more than financial stability at stake - things like how much interaction do you want with other people, how much direct supervision do you need/want, and the importance of being creative.</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t have Career Counseling, you can see a private consultant or start with some online tools. The California Career Zone ([California</a> CareerZone](<a href=“http://www.cacareerzone.org%5DCalifornia”>http://www.cacareerzone.org)) might be helpful, but I would really recommend talking with a counselor.</p>
<p>You got to do what you love and what you are genuinely interested in. And what you have a natural talent for. Explore for a year or so in college before you decide. My husband is a CPA. Started undecided, eventually chose accounting when he realized he had a natural talent for it and really enjoyed it. He would never had been interested in doing any medical field or in being a lawyer.</p>
<p>He stated out working for an established CPA (a sole practicioner, not a big firm), eventually started his own business, moved to Norcal and bought a larger practice from someone retiring, and now has 12 employees, makes a very comforable 6 figure income, and is HAPPY.</p>
<p>His successs is due to his talent and ability but just as important it is due to his personality, his people skills, and ambition. He would not have been a successful doctor/dentist/lawyer as those fields were not interesting to him and he was meant to be an accountant! So do what you love and the success will follow. Having money does not mean you will be fulfilled and content with your life.</p>
<p>I think you need to factor in temperament and think about the kind of work setting you would thrive in because these are important to well-being which effects productivity which effects income, whatever you do. Do you like to work alone or do you want social contact? Do you like the the idea of being in business for yourself or do you prefer someone else do the business practice details while you are an “expert” in some skill? How do you feel about pain, body fluids, and managing the behavior of people in pain. Do you enjoy an argument or avoid them? Are you highly organized and happy keeping track of details? Do you like to manage others? Do you want a career with fixed or flexible hours to fit around family plans? Each of the careers you differentiate has a different culture to it on some fundamental level and you need to consider these because “stability” is not just about the economy, it is also about your ability to be happily “stable” doing the work in when an economy is unstable.</p>
<p>"What if money is a way towards your happiness. "</p>
<p>I think you’re naive if that’s what you believe. Certainly having money for food, shelter, clothing, and medical expenses relieves much stress in life. However, living in a luxury house, driving a luxury car, having designer clothes don’t lead to happiness.</p>
<p>However, if you think that having a stable, lucrative career would make you happy, consider becoming a funeral director.</p>
<p>I know nothing about dental/pharm, but for both law and accounting, it has become necessary to have an entrepreneurial bent or at least a talent for sales and developing business to succeed in the long run. I know a lot of people who went into those professions who were excellent at what they did but were laid off after a number of years because they just didn’t have it in them to be rainmakers. FWIW, I was an accounting major and I have a law degree.</p>
<p>As for law, I’m the only one of my group of law school buddies who would do it over again. The price of a JD is now over 100,000, plus the 3 years off the job market. Forget about “average starting salaries” and go read a bunch of job postings at law schools, you’ll find many that pay under $50,000/year</p>
<p>Just a note, there are currently more law students in law school right now then their are practicing lawyers in society. It is not uncommon for graduating law students to work for wages even below that of a ADA. ~$30,000 a year is pretty normal for some new grads from non selective schools.</p>
<p>This is key, but research shows that once you get past the point of comfortably paying bills, having more money doesn’t make you happier. Being wealthy comes with it’s own set of issues.</p>
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<p>This is true, but doctors make less money where nationalized medicine is present. Doctors are already making less than they used to because of the increasing power of insurance companies. Doctors have been becoming relatively less wealthy for many years.</p>
<p>I agree that you will do best at something you love. Choosing a career as something like a pharmacist for the money potential can be soul killing.</p>
<p>I think that is just what people say whom are already well off and comfortable say. Poor people and poor families realize that the majority of their problems are financial and once they get money, they tend to be relitivly problem free. Ive seen it happen first hand. Money does make poor people happy.</p>