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About 2 years ago our younger son announced that he wanted to go to medical school. He was a sophomore in college at the time and was majoring in Psychology with a couple of different minors. He had to scramble to load up on pre-med classes which included taking calculus which he had declined to take in high school, in order to graduate in 4 years. But he did it (at least he's on track to graduate this May with a 4.0 out of 4.0).
He'll be taking a "gap year" to study for the medical school entrance exam and to save up money while hopefully getting a job as a scribe at a local hospital.
One of my colleagues has a son who "wanted to go to medical school" but was not accepted because he did not have any related work experience. These schools are highly selective and they want to see evidence of a desire to do the work, not just good grades. (BTW my colleague's son now has a doctorate in research biology. The alternative to medical school is not necessarily digging ditches)
I wanted to be a dr growing up because i was fascinated with the human body. I was specifically fascinated with the idea of surgery.
However, at age 17, i witnessed an accident that was pretty gory and froze up. Decided i couldn't stand the sight of blood. Changed my career goals to engineering. I still work on complex machines, but now i focus on ones that activate by hydraulic pumps and pistons and oil viscosity, and not hearts and muscles and blood.
Fast forward about 20 years. Have seen enough in my life that i am now desensitized to the sight of gore and blood. Wish i went through with med school.
I wanted to be a dr growing up because i was fascinated with the human body. I was specifically fascinated with the idea of surgery.
After living a lie of telling people I wanted to be a doctor throughout my elementary school years, I started to believe it. So I went through a brief phase of actually wanting to be a doctor, although the career's main appeal was money. After puberty, my fascination shifted to the outside of the human body , and my career interests shifted toward computers.
Today, I'd say one of the easiest jobs is a talk therapist. You don't have to really do anything. All you need to do is ask "How did that make you feel?", parrot back what your client says, and spew out platitudes. I know from experience. That's what I should have done for a career, rather than IT.
There is money all over, in tons of fields. I work in an industry where I get to see what people actually earn. I have worked with 25 year old wiz kids with wages of $648,000.00 per year, working in the tech industry designing applications. I worked with a man that could barely speak English who owned a black car company that earned $180,000.00 a year. I have worked with Doctors in specialized fields who earn $400,000.00 a year, and Doctors who are General Practitioners that earn $110,000.00 a year.
The people with the largest incomes that I have had the pleasure to work with were all Engineers. Everyone of them designed and patented a useful object and had a lifetime of income. I'm not going to list the objects because it will give away their identity, but I will tell you the fields.
Petroleum extraction, 30 Million a year in royalties at the time I worked with this person.
Steel production, 8 Million a year.
Medical device, 2.5 Million a year.
Find out what your child likes, and let go of the bias that we all have towards certain professions and support them. I don't know how many times I have heard a parent tell me that their child would have to crawl over their dead body before they would support some career field they didn't like.
My oldest son wants to be an FBI agent. I don't know anything about becoming and FBI agent so I asked a retired agent I just happened to meet at church. He let me know that most students struggle with the marksmanship program. It is timed and has a bunch a drills they have to complete with a minimum accuracy score. There isn't any way for him to "study" that at home, so my wife and I agreed to allow him to attend a tactical training school after he turns 16 so that he can go through drills. No one in my family is law enforcement, but we will support him 100% if this is what he wants to do.
Personally I have found in my 30 year career those with the best incomes are sales people. Obviously you have to be good at it and be able to read people, but sure seems like they drove the fancy cars and have the bigger houses. Less likely to be sued too.
Personally I have found in my 30 year career those with the best incomes are sales people. Obviously you have to be good at it and be able to read people, but sure seems like they drove the fancy cars and have the bigger houses. Less likely to be sued too.
Nowadays engineers (including software engineers) are paid more than before.
Google, Facebook etc often give $200k entry level package. But their interview is tough.
Doctors are still paid more than "scientists" in general.
Kids don't think about money much. Many parents don't let their kids think about it either
Money is important but not everything. I don't know about you, but personally I would rather earn $70k/year doing something I'm passionate about than $120k/year doing something I hate. I'm somewhere in between those incomes and do something I'm apathetic about.
Personally I have found in my 30 year career those with the best incomes are sales people. Obviously you have to be good at it and be able to read people, but sure seems like they drove the fancy cars and have the bigger houses. Less likely to be sued too.
Yep... My ex-husband, an infectious-disease doctor, used to say that many of the pharmaceutical reps made more money than he did - and he made quite a decent living.
Which you can do and make a lucrative living from it.
Game shops like Epic Games are notorious for long (read: unpaid) extra hours leading up to a major release. They often have higher expectations and lower salaries vs. being a software engineer for any other company.
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, and my career interests shifted toward computers.
