What are some careers in science that make ALOT of money?

You've done this twice, so i'll assume it wasn't by mistake the first time: "alot" isn't a word. Just a heads up so your professor doesn't laugh at you when you get to college.

Not meaning to be critical, but it's "a lot". You're welcome.

A lot

it's a lot

it's a lot

it's a lot

It's a lot like life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MAqCu4pm8A

If you want a lot of money, forget science or engineering. Erase that thought from your mind.

Remember. Money isn't everything.

If you insist on money, try dentistry. Less hours than medical school and work 4 days a week with your own practice. If real good, become an orthodontist and work less for even more money.

1. don't go to school for science.

2. go to school for software engineering or compsci

3. ????????

4. profit

Financial Engineering, Mathematical Finance or whatever other guise the Wall Street stuff goes under

This is idiotic. With one parent as a dentist and one as an electrical engineer I can say this is bullshit. My mom is an engineer and her STARTING salary was 125k a year with not to much debt. My dad took years in dental school and working on his residency, accumulating tons of debt. When he finally finished his residency and started his on office, he barely broke even on the interest of all his debt. Later, he started making 250k or above but it took years of hard work, though i'll admit his hours are pretty convenient. Basically, engineers make bank too. Also, general dentistry is getting hit hard by Obama's health care regime starting next year.

afksdf wrote:

1. don't go to school for science.

2. go to school for software engineering or compsci

3. ????????

4. profit

1 is good advice. 2 is bad. Those jobs are outsourced these days and totally saturated. 1980s was the peak for those jobs. Today they max out fast too unless you go into management.

You want something professional and not outsourceable.

Law school--patent lawyer

Med school- Anaesthesiologist

Dentistry.

The best is dentistry by far for the amount of work you put in to make it and the flexibility (work your own hours) when you are done.

wrong_approach wrote:

Law school--patent lawyer

Med school- Anaesthesiologist

Dentistry.

CRNAs are encroaching enough into Anesthesiologists' turf that their jobs are more and more often becoming "outsourced."

Dermatology is a pretty sweet gig, though. Mohs surgery is pretty well protected from outsourcing.

Engineering or computer science is a good bet, but honestly I don't think very many careers in science provide one with a great deal of money. You could make more by going into economics, finance, accounting, etc, though a science degree will definitely make you smarter if you actually take it seriously. Though I don't regret studying various sciences in college, it is a little annoying to see some of my peers make 10-20k dollars more per year when they were idiots who partied all the time in college and got degrees in easier majors.

Engineering is a good bet though. Even if you end up not being an engineer, it will open up a lot of doors.

OP posted about making a lot (actually ALOT) of money. I'll assume they want a stable career too.

Engineering is no picnic. It's brutally hard.

The starting salaries are good but they max out fast unless you luck out with a startup and options. Dilbert is actually very accurate. There is a lot of office politics and outsourcing pressure.

If OP wants to be a worker bee, working long hours, fine. Go into Engineering. But don't fool yourself. It's not easy money and it is not ALOT of money.

As for the poster about the dentist, most senior Engineers will NEVER make 250k. Never.

Debt isn't so bad when the payout later is so great and the hours are very good. Medicine and finance are the places to be for money and comfort later in life. The hours to make it initially in wall street and medical school, however, are insane compared to dentistry.

I'm about to start my medical residency.

If you want money and you're smart, this career is not for you. Don't try and convince yourself in university that this is what you should do. I'm warning you now.

If you want money and you're good at math and science, get an applied math degree in the school of engineering. EE is also a great choice. From applied math you can go the finance route. Truly bright financiers with a math background can make well over a mill in their 20's. The best make 5-10 mill a year. Many average ones make 200K in their second year. But then you're a leech of society and only serve yourself, so if you can live with that its all you.

An other avenue which is a great choice if you're creative is EE. If you're hard working (which most runners are) you can intern over the summers and segway into a job right out of college. This is moderately good money, but then you go to night school for an MBA which often times your company will pay for. Then you go into management, which is often salivating to have someone with technical experience and business savy. You're making 300+K with stock options, which is the real money maker. If you're as smart as you say you won't be worried with the amount of money you make there. Good luck.

All I ask is that you please consider your impact on society with your decisions. There was once a time where gifted people tried to use their gifts for others. You'll still make money but sleep better at night :)

Two things to offer here.

1. As a scientist, communication is very important. Grad schools will concern themselves with your GRE verbal score as well as your math score. If you can't communicate ideas, you'll have a hard time in science. Concern yourself with this "a lot."

2. There is money to be made in science. Angle for a field which serves an industry with a lot of money, such as medicine or energy. Don't expect to make $125k right out of college, but do expect to make a nice living.

As an aside, all this talk about engineers....really? There is good money to be made there (as above, in medicine and energy for example). But it's not some super lucrative field where everyone becomes an overnight millionare.

Learn game theory and work for a hedge fund on Grand Cayman Island. Forget track in college. Take up squash and drink Belgian abbey brews. Buy blue chip paintings, a Breguet Pocket Watch 1907BA/12 and a Heckler & Koch HK45 Compact.

Thanks for the responses. The more I think about it, the more I realize that finance might be the way to go. I like math, and I'm pretty good at it, just not as good as I am at science. I'm actually going to Georgetown next year. I was accepted into the college, but I am thinking that the smart move might be to transfer to the school of foreign service, and major in international economics, and then get my MBA. For all of you who didn't know, the school of foreign service (sfs) is by far the strongest school at georgetown, so if I an get my degree from there with pretty good grades, I should be able to get into Wharton or Harvard or something. Thoughts? What careers would a degree in international economics lead to and how lucrative are they?

Do ROTC and become an officer in the military. You can serve your country and have a steady job with great benefits. I'm sure the Navy or the Air Force would have some use for your scientific talents. Plus, you will never meet people as interesting as you do in the armed forces.

BisonHurdler, M.D. wrote:

wrong_approach wrote:

Law school--patent lawyer

Med school- Anaesthesiologist

Dentistry.

CRNAs are encroaching enough into Anesthesiologists' turf that their jobs are more and more often becoming "outsourced."

Dermatology is a pretty sweet gig, though. Mohs surgery is pretty well protected from outsourcing.

Just wondering why you think it is well protected from outsourcing (not disagreeing with you--genuinely wondering)? It seems to me like it is only a matter of time before NPs and DNPs decide they are well qualified for "simple" surgery. Hell--they're already doing colonoscopies in some places.

Of course scientists and engineers can make money. A lot of engineers are CEOs of huge companies, either because they worked their way up or they started their own business. And honestly the hours aren't bad compared to other good-paying professions. You think doctors have it easy? Lawyers? Dentistry isn't gravy either, it's about 50-60 hours a week and super stressful if you have your own practice $1 MM sunk into it. I don't know of any job that you can make >250k at without a lot of hours.

And the guy who said not to major in CS should take a look at the employment stats for that major.

If you want to make a lot of money as a pure science major working in science, you'll need a PhD in something like chem or biochem.