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DESU unless you are wanting a family not worth. I'm happily married with kids but if sex was the only plus of it I would have stayed single.

Senpai med peasant here, getting 270k 1st year out of residency (3 years) doing boonie boomer primary care. In hindsight wish I had went psych, internal to specialty, or something a little more lifestyle due to tge unpaid paperwork burden of prim care.

Imo, whether you go surg or med should mostly be down to personality (type A tends toward surg) and if you think you can stand being in residency for 5+ extra years after going through med school. If I went surg and had the grades then my pick from the subspecialties would have been ophtho, ortho, plastics, or urology for money + lifestyle. In neurosurg you're gonna be dealing with a bunch of radiculopathy / chronic back pain cases that currently don't reliably have great outcomes and are frequently pains in the butt to deal with as patients. But the prestige is unparalelled if that's your thing. You'll be a brain surgeon, after all.

Regardless, if you know how to manage money at all and can defer gratification a few years out from res you should be doing great regardless of what you choose in a few years.