Quickly! wrote:
kodi wrote:But with a ton of debt to pay off as well as diseased clientele to deal with everyday and really late nights. Not to mention that it hasn't happened yet. As it stands, you're no better (probably worse in fact) off than the people you're insulting. When you actually do start making $200k then ok. But not yet. There are plenty of people that go to med school and don't become doctors. That could be you.
When you make as much money as physicians do, paying back loans is never a problem. Jealous or ignorant people tend to like to think "Doctors are drowning in debt" but this is rarely the case. People who want to do med school but can't, try to find something to justify their reasons for not going into it. Also the attrition rate for med school is 2%.
You are entirely missing my point. You are counting your chickens before they hatch. Right now, you are no better than your classmates. You are unemployed and are living off of loans (assuming you are the average student that I've encountered).
Saying that you will have lots of debt is not saying that you'll be drowning in debt. Nor does it have anything to do with being jealous or ignorant. It is a fact for the majority of students that they will take on loads of debt. Thank you for backing up my point that not every student "makes it" out of med school.
I have no idea why you are talking about people that can or can't get into med school. Neither you or I said anything regarding that.
You need to consider that not everyone wants your future possible physician lifestyle or money. There are many careers that some people consider better that you will consider lesser. And until you actually get one of those careers, you are no better off than them. I'm sure some of them have financial goals that are 5-10 years away also.
And you failed to answer this: are all of your former classmates really slobs on welfare (if you have government loans, then you are on welfare also)? Not one holds at least a minimum wage job?