Daily Lesson: Stay in School

"heliochrome85" (heliochrome85)
05/12/2017 at 16:12 • Filed to: None

4 years college. 4 years medical school. 3 years residency. 2 years post-residency training. Life pretty good as a doctor. Stay in school kids.

DISCUSSION (25)

PatBateman > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:19

AWE YEAH!!

JR1 > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:20

Not sure how you did it. Undergrad and now these three years of law school are probably going to do me in.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:21

one of the hospitals i used to be in and out of frequenly had a doctor who owned both an R8 and a 911 Turbo at the same time. must be nice

TheHondaBro > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:22

I’m definitely not leaving college until I earn some sort of advanced degree. Definitely masters, not sure if I want to go PhD yet, I’ll know by then if I want to go all the way.

yitznewton > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:28

I would totally not be capable of that long of a sustained effort. Cheers for your success! I stumbled into software engineering, which is its own brand of lucrative.

ttyymmnn > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:28

Hey doc, it hurts when I do this.

I have another burner, try to guess it! > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:32

You’re not my real dad!

Sweet Trav > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:35

Congrats on being a doctor. Personally, if I had to do it over again, I’d be a large diesel mechanic or a cad/cam machinist or tool and die maker. More money in that than my desk job, especially if you open your own shop. I think the trick isn’t stay in school, but find a marketable skill in school, hone it and make it one that provide a living.

I’m of the firm belief that you will never be wealthy working for a company or someone else, you can only be wealthy if you own the business, but there is a lot of risk in owning your own business.

WilliamsSW > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 16:40

Congratulations! It’s a tough road - my wife is a doc, and I don’t think people appreciate how much hard work / training you go through to get where you are. And it does seem to me that your lifestyle varies greatly depending on specialty.

Gorgeous car, too!

PG; the scalpel wielder > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 17:07

Here I am 4 years into residency scrounging in an old hotel attending conferences to enter into speciality training. Surgery life

DipodomysDeserti > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 17:08

Don’t lie, you’re obviously a hairdresser. ; )

Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 17:53

Still...

...it’s too bad you couldn’t afford the 911.

(I keed, I keed, haha! Nice car!)

heliochrome85 > PG; the scalpel wielder
05/12/2017 at 18:00

where you at now?

heliochrome85 > Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast
05/12/2017 at 18:01

#poverty

heliochrome85 > DipodomysDeserti
05/12/2017 at 18:01

HEY GURL

AfromanGTO > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 18:52

Hey my fiance is finishing up her final fellowship program in the end of June. She’s only 4 types of doctors. lol

Discerning > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 20:05

Counterpoint: go to school for business and side step countless years of school.

Don’t go into medicine if it’s only for the money, kids. You will regret it. Same goes for law school.

I do recommend secondary school, but even a 4 year isn’t necessary in some cases.

Discerning > DipodomysDeserti
05/12/2017 at 20:11

My girlfriend’s hair stylist drives a new x5m because she liked the way it looked more than the normal x5.

Guess it’s not hard to afford that when you charge 70 bucks for a wash and cut.

LastFirstMI is my name > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 20:44

So you’re moonlighting detailing cars?

just kidding. There has to be a silver (or chrome) lining to the dark soul-crushing cloud that is medical training. Enjoy!

PS9 > heliochrome85
05/12/2017 at 23:00

I did. But then 2007 happened and brought all kinds of fun with it. Tl;dr -> My life was destroyed and I lost everything. Lives were lost. I’m the only survivor and school isn’t and option anymore; with the way things are, it’d be like trying to go back to Chernobyl.

All I can do now is keep my head above the water and hope the next economic collapse doesn’t pull me undertow. At least I can’t lose anyone this time.

PG; the scalpel wielder > heliochrome85
05/13/2017 at 01:18

I’m from Australia, differnt system here. We do 2 years of intern and then try to enter speciality trainings, until we are accepted we do unaccredited years in that field.

DipodomysDeserti > Discerning
05/13/2017 at 01:21

My dads barber drives a X6M because he’s Russian.

CaptDale - is secretly British > heliochrome85
05/15/2017 at 11:43

But those student loans obviously stopped you from purchasing a real Porsche. ;)

That is a beautiful Boxster though

heliochrome85 > CaptDale - is secretly British
05/15/2017 at 11:44

Student debt free now ;-)

CaptDale - is secretly British > heliochrome85
05/15/2017 at 11:44

Lucky you