<p>^Whats wrong with half of the responses? I’m sure half of the parents thought like this when they were 18 and had the whole world infront of them. Half either aren’t serious or complete jokes.</p>
<p>Best Case: Graduate from Penn (hopefully I actually achieve this or the last two years were pretty much a waste)
Get great job to pay off debts and have cash left over for grad school
Graduate with PhD from top business school (funded)
Tenured professor at top school
Publish great papers that put me on the map potentially for a Nobel
Am so respected that I’m interviewed reguarly on CNBC, MSNBC, and national news stations
Have great consulting jobs when I’m not teaching (summers, etc) that pay the bills and let me work with hot shot CEOs.
Hot wife and living in a nice apartment/townhouse in a good part of the city (whatever city I’m living in). Maybe kids when I’m closer to 40.</p>
<p>Either that or I run a HF or prop shop and move millions or billions of dollars around daily. That would be cool.</p>
<p>Worst Case: living on the street addicted to crack and smack with no money having to do godknowswhat to get my fix.</p>
<p>Best Scenario:
Macarthur “Genius” Grant or a Pulitzer nomination, getting produced off-Broadway with good reviews, getting started on my great play trilogy that will define my career and win me a Nobel prize in drama. I’ll be in talks to publish my plays, along with a trio of novels. Living with my long-term boyfriend in a sick brownstone in Brooklyn or Queens, thinking about adopting a kid. </p>
<p>Worst:
Living with my mom and working at CVS. Two kids of questionable paternity. ****ty car. Persistent depression. No health insurance.</p>
<p>The less than ideal scenario involves paralysis, a comatose or catatonic state, a persistent vegetative state, chronic poisoning via substances(lead, mercury, arsenic, DDT, etc.) that significantly alters cognitive functioning, living in a fascist police state, me being in prison for a crime I did not commit…I could go on and on. </p>
<p>Some might see me as a poster-child for mediocrity, but all I really want at this moment is a middle class lifestyle that affords me the privilege of peace of mind, economic stability, and enough disposable income to pursue my hobbies and passions. Having a job you at least somewhat enjoy would be a plus as well.</p>
<p>Best:
before graduating college, single handedly discovering the cure to not only cancer but also diabetes. After that, I’d start going to church 24/7 and become a preacher and then pastor my own church. I’d buy myself a bentley and design my own house. I’d probably stay single for a while. I’d go traveling all the time and dress in very fine clothes.</p>
<p>Worse:
I get kicked out of school. My plane crashes before I land and it randomly kills my parents but keeping me a live. With no place to go, I crash with some hobos and sell my body to get some food.</p>
<p>Best: Main credit for a lucrative gene-therapeutic virus, actively engaged in political subterfuge to shape the world, and amateur winner of a Fields Medal.</p>
<p>Worst: International fugitive accused of political conspiracy, but actually innocent precisely because I am too poor; and in a sincere bioinformatic mistake, I irreversibly damage my ability to do mathematics.</p>
<p>Best: Working at an equivalent of M5, designing special effects for movies. Nice wife(/husband?) and a few kids. Ranch house in California but way the hell away from LA. I have won my first technical oscar.</p>
<p>Worst (excluding the obvious medical tragedies): Living at my parents’ house. Haven’t finished college. Writing books that no one will read. Bussing tables at a TGIFridays.</p>
<p>Dbate: I’ve noticed most women and girls tend to want to be nurses over doctors, despite the fact that they’re basically the same job only one gets paid a lot more. The amount of school is definitely a consideration, but if you’re aiming for nurse practitioner, doesn’t that require extra school? I have a friend who wants a Ph.D in nursing and I’m like…why? To go to school for ten years and still get bossed around by doctors?</p>
I hate this 1950’s mentality that nurses are like dumber versions of doctors and just follow their orders or something. Nurses and doctors have different jobs with different requirements!</p>
<p>Nurses are responsible for patientcare - they regularly give shots, blood tests, monitor the patient more and deal with immediate needs. There are also different levels of nursing, some require only 2 years of training, others a Bachelor’s degree, and with a PhD in Nursing your friend can do research with other scientists, not get “bossed around” by doctors. Physicians don’t really deal with patientcare, they see patients a lot less, and instead treat/diagnose illnesses and prescribe medication. Some physicians (like pathologists) generally don’t see patients at all. Nurses normally don’t specialize in a specific field of medicine, like many physicians choose to do - it is possible to become say, a “psychiatric nurse” but that’s completely different from being a psychiatrist. The training for the careers is also different - Nursing is studied in Undergrad and there’s more variety - you can get a 2 years Associate degree (learn technical skills) or up to a PhD in Nursing and do research. Whereas with physicians it’s Bachelors + MD + Residency (sometimes specialty). Sorry to ramble but I feel like there’s a lot of misconceptions about Nursing, even in the 21st century. And yep, there’s a lot of sexism surrounding that field - like 95% of nurses are women, that’s ridiculous…and 1/4 docs are women (but this is changing!). Male nurses are in pretty high demand right now.</p>
<p>Best: In good health, loving relationship, job I enjoy hopefully a doctor but who knows so long as I enjoy it and it puts a roof over my head.</p>
<p>Worst: Death </p>
<p>My best case is pretty generalized and there’s a big gap between the best and worse.
Really as long as I have my own well being and i’m alive etc…i’d probably manage someway somehow with everything else.</p>
