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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View PostI 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?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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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?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio Regum
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Not to mention the opportunity cost of waiting to finish school..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View PostI 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?"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."
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Originally posted by flash9286 View Post
It is if you are going to be around 120,000 in debt."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
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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."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
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License to breed? I almost agree with you.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove View PostWhy 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.
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No
Are you a summer associate with a firm right now?
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.Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -Homer
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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.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio Regum
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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove View PostWhy is law school so expensive?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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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.
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.
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.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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