Health Careers? Others? Please answer?
I am a student in my last year of high school. I really am gravitating towards something in the medical field. However, since I am going to get married and have kids, going to medical school and getting married in internships and being a new fully licensed MD in a couple hundred K's in debt with my newborn makes this a little bit harder. Plus I want to stay home for my kids so I don't want to go right back to work. So if I do some roughly estimated math I will be 25-30 when I am married, 25-30 in residency/internship, from med school and forward in debt, 30-35 full time mom, maybe at 40 I would be able to start up again and be re-certified.....
But I still need a job in my early twenties that pays really well. I'm thinking surgical assistant or some kind of nurse because I do NOT want to be in debt and pay malpractice insurance and work myself out just to have that degree while I'm a mom- even though being a MD is what I would do if I were a man haha. I know, I know I plan too far sometimes but at least I'm thinking about my future. Any suggestions in the medical field?
I would also like to make a minimum of $ 60,000 a year. I'm pretty smart, and I usually never say that, but I do pretty well in school and I WILL sure as heck work for it.
If you have any suggestions for careers, my personality is ISTJ, meaning I am introverted, sensing, thinking, judging in Carl Jung's personality test. I am pretty factual, but I'm not extremely compassionate and merciful. I do like variety in a job, and I like thing when they work out perfectly. I guess these personality generalizing test can give some kind of guide.
THANK YOU ALL :)
E.Huang
Nursing can be a rewarding career, and especially these days there is a shortage of qualified nurses. I would highly recommend researching nursing, and seeing if thats what you want.
LiberryAnn
This verse of a poem by Robert Burns influenced John Steinbeck to write the book, "Of Mice and Men."
"But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!"
Things happen. You want to get married but your fiancee runs off with your best friend. You want and expect to have kids but find out your husband doesn't really want kids like he told you he did, or you find out even though you get pregnant you can't carry a child to term. You are planning what you want to happen in a world that most often will not fulfill your expectations even with the best laid plans and best intentions.
No one who can get into medical school doesn't go because of the money. So what if you are $ 100 thousand in debt. You will pay that from a salary after you get out of medical school that will be higher than almost any other comparable occupation. 100K on $ 60k is a lot of money 100K on 250 K is not.
The tragedy is that you have planned your life and you still can't go to medical school because they will not accept someone your age, and you have too many responsibilities and your husband just lost his job and there is no money. A doctor who was on the committee that made the decision about who got into medical school once ask me, rhetorically I am sure, "What do you do when everybody applying has straight A's?
Go to medical school if you can get in. You will have this chance if you do well enough at a good college in a premed, chemistry, or biology program. If you can't get in to Medical School you can become a nurse because you can use your courses as prerequisites. If you do not get those classes, you may end up making 60k, but you will find out that is not very much money. It just seems that way when you are in high school. Keep in mind the figures from the second source are ten years old. We are about to do another census. Also, they are averaging all doctors even those paid to teach in medical schools or work for the government. You make a lot more in private practice. Work you life around your medicine because you cannot work medicine around your life.
C C
If you want the medical career you have some choices & personal desires will depend mostly on your marks & how much time you can devote to studies. If you want a family before you finish school the pressure of those combined desires may be too much for you, personally & financially.The best plan would be to finish your schooling before you get married & try to raise kids at the same time. Get your grades up for you'll never get into a good medical school & be able to finish it with all the finances of school, marriage & children together. I know you may want it all now, but the smartest thing to do is get your schooling done before you take on marriage & babies.You'd be smarter to get your finances set, applying to nursing school first (minimum of 2 years for an RN or 4 years for RN with Bachelors in Nursing, then you take State Boards for your license).Then you can work & make anywhere from $ 40,000 to over 50,000 depending on where you work, esp. if you work in ICU or a specialty. If you do well, see what you need then to get into medical school after you save up & see about grants, loans or whatever you need for finances.If you wait until you get the nursing schooling done you should be about 22-24 with your BS, (malpractice insurance for nurses is only about $ 150 a year, not high like doctors), then you'll still be young getting into medical school if you work a few years so you get some cash if you meet someone & want to be pregnant before you're 30.But medical school (that's 4 years plus another 1 for internship then more Boards to pass) is not easy to do with a baby to deal with too (they keep you up at night when you have to study & working long hours as a doctor is not easy to manage).Your general plans are feasible but you really should hold off the pregnancy & babies until your schooling is done.(You can have babies from 30 - 40 if you want to, so there's plenty of time there for 10 kids if your really eager to have a lot of them!). Try not to marry someone who isn't with you on all your goals. Your best plan would be to get into medical school & marry another doctor who knows about all the things doctors need to do.Money also would help if both of you were doctors( $ 100,000 each depending on your specialty & you don't have to work with that kind of husband), & there's nothing wrong with that plan.With 50 % of all marriages ending in divorce, please put off babies until you have a job so if something should happen you can care for your children & support them alone if you had to. Try not to marry young too, for it would be so bad for you since you have so many good desires to marry early before you at least got a nursing degree & could care for yourself & any children you had too soon. Try not to run your life on emotions alone, but make a plan, & follow it for I think it's early enough for you to live your dream if you stick to it. Remember that a good education is the best thing to fall back on if you had to depend on yourself alone. Good luck to you.
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