Do NOT go to medical school

[Solomwi]

Yep, but I knew I was ****ed within the first week.



It is if you are going to be around 120,000 in debt.

No.

[Asher]

I don't have much sympathy for people over 100k in student loans.

I had to wait to finish my school because I couldn't afford to pay the money to continue. The result, it took longer, but I don't owe a penny to anybody.

Let me guess Guy, you have a wife a nice house, vehicles, a steady job that pays very well compared to most people.

Would you rather be working for yourself and not have the job security, Guynemer?

Wow.

[KrazyHorse]

Why would you quote him? My brain is melting at the sight of that post. Did Ben just equate the debt of somebody who has completed medical school with somebody who did undergrad and nothing else?

[Asher]

Not to mention the opportunity cost of waiting to finish school...

[dannubis]

I don't have much sympathy for people over 100k in student loans.

I had to wait to finish my school because I couldn't afford to pay the money to continue. The result, it took longer, but I don't owe a penny to anybody.

Let me guess Guy, you have a wife a nice house, vehicles, a steady job that pays very well compared to most people.

Would you rather be working for yourself and not have the job security, Guynemer?

Again you show your true colors... you are a pathetic excuse for a human being Ben.

[Dr Strangelove]

It is if you are going to be around 120,000 in debt.

Why is law school so expensive? It's easy to see why medical school is expensive, the laboratory courses like anatomy, physiology and biochemistry require a lot of expensive equipment, but there's almost no equipment required toi teach law.

[Guynemer]

A) I am working for myself. Private practice, friend. With another, larger, competiting private practice moving into a brand new facility literally next door to me. So I'm not feeling terribly secure in my job in the moment.

B) If I had waited until I had earned enough money by working whatever jobs I could scrounge up with my bachelor's until starting medical school, I wouldn't have finished residency until retirement age. If then. This is the way the medical education system is set up, and it's a ****ing joke.


C) And none of this is the reason for my disillusionment that began the thread. No, it is the fact that we don't license people to breed is, on occasion, astounding to me.

[SlowwHand]

License to breed? I almost agree with you.

[Guynemer]

Tex

[asleepathewheel]

Why is law school so expensive? It's easy to see why medical school is expensive, the laboratory courses like anatomy, physiology and biochemistry require a lot of expensive equipment, but there's almost no equipment required toi teach law.

Demand+nondischargeable student loan debt=$$$

[flash9286]

No

I know a lot of people don't like the big law culture, but if you want to make the money that is were you go, or so I have been told.

Are you a summer associate with a firm right now?

No, I'm a research assistant for a professor. Almost none of the 1ls in my class got summer associate jobs. Even the public interest groups had to start turning students away because they didn't have enough attorneys to supervise all the students applying for summer internships.

Why is law school so expensive? It's easy to see why medical school is expensive, the laboratory courses like anatomy, physiology and biochemistry require a lot of expensive equipment, but there's almost no equipment required toi teach law.

I don't know. State law schools are pretty cheap, and if I could start over I would probably got to my state school. All the top private law schools are around 40,000 in tuition.

[Dis]

they are expensive because they are taught buy lawyers.

[KrazyHorse]

Why is law school so expensive? It's easy to see why medical school is expensive, the laboratory courses like anatomy, physiology and biochemistry require a lot of expensive equipment, but there's almost no equipment required toi teach law.

Neither medical school nor law school are particularly expensive compared to undergrad tuition at private universities. Equipment costs are only a minor part of the overall price tag.

[DanS]

Why is law school so expensive?

Apparently, because the market will bear it.

[Ben Kenobi]

A) I am working for myself. Private practice, friend. With another, larger, competiting private practice moving into a brand new facility literally next door to me. So I'm not feeling terribly secure in my job in the moment.

Ok, if you are working for yourself, and you aren't making enough money, why aren't you charging more so that you can make up the cost of your education and get yourself out of debt?

Why don't you switch to another speciality where you can make more money just to get over the hump, and then go into pediatrics when you have more financial security?

If they don't make enough where you live why not move elsewhere?

You've boxed yourself in a corner.

1. You are working at a speciality that doesn't pay much.
2. You are working in an economically depressed area.
3. You have a huge debt load.

You have a couple of choices. You can accept the decisions that you've made as to your job, your speciality, and the area you live in and chip away at the debt over time.

Or you can do something to change your life so that you are happy. What you are doing right now obviously isn't working out for you, for your wife or your patients.

B) If I had waited until I had earned enough money by working whatever jobs I could scrounge up with my bachelor's until starting medical school, I wouldn't have finished residency until retirement age. If then. This is the way the medical education system is set up, and it's a ****ing joke.

Then why did you get into it knowing that you'd rack up a large debt when you got out of it? Did that come as a surprise to you?

I couldn't afford to do med school, or what not, so I had that choice made for me. I had to do what I could afford, which was a 4 year degree. Did that suck having to back out? Yes. Am I happy now that I finished and paid off all my bills? Yes.

You made the choice to go deep into debt to pursue your chosen career when you had other options.