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I'll be 31 by the time i graduate medical school in 2 years. Meanwhile i'm poor and my internships/exams kill most of the free time i could use for a side job. Meanwhile all my old friends are married/kids/house going on trips, while i'm sitting in my studio alone. wth few friends and no love life.

Was it all even worth it, biz? I like the idea of being a doctor but i would also like to have a family someday and it's only going to get harder as a i get older.

>> No.13739939

>>13739754
retard if youre finna be a doctor get a 23 year old cutie and knock her up you're a doctor it should be a joke for you to get laid

cringe

>> No.13739987

>>13739754
I’m applying to medical school right now and it terrifies me that this could happen to me, but I honestly couldn’t think of doing anything else with my life

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>>13739754

>> No.13740038

>>13739754
you'll be alight bro; I just graduated this last weekend at 28. Just read the White Coat Investor and keep living like a resident teeh first few years as an attending. What specialty you going into/what was your USMLE Step 1 score?

Don't do primary care. We are all gonna keep taking compensation hits wwhich si BS considering how goddamn expensive med school has become, but stay the course. As long as you're not a social retard, you'll meet plenty of people in residency.

>> No.13740092

It's probably not what you want to hear right now but medicine is no longer worth going into for the money with the exception of a very few sub specialties (Derm, Plastics, Ortho). For the amount of time you are investing into it (and the skills requisite to succeed in it) you would have been better off going in business. Regardless the work will remain fulfilling and intellectually engaging for the rest of your life unlike a lot of its alternatives. Either no-life your academic work until you get into one of the above listed programs or ask yourself WHY you have gotten involved in this profession. If happiness is what you want then make that your primary pursuit and do the bare minimum amount of work needed to coast into a relaxed residency like Psy, Pedi, or IM and give yourself time to find other important things in your life (like finding a QT3.14 and becoming a Normy who can be happy).

>> No.13740141

>>13739754
You're gonna make it bro. You'll be king of the wagecucks lmao

>> No.13740153

>>13739754
Thats a yikes from me bro. Just quit that scam and start your own business, its way fucking better bro, no larp. This is the closest to free i feel i can be.

>> No.13740165

>>13739754
When you're a doctor no one asks when you graduated

>> No.13740175

>>13740141
REKT AF
Doctors are unironically memes now. Must suck to dedicate 1p+years of your life to start getting paid, only to realize you yave another 10 years of loans to pay off. Yikes from me.

>> No.13740192

>>13739754
I know a 45 year old who just got into med, you’re way ahead

>> No.13740212

Doctor here, finished when I was 31 but I’m super specialist. I make 400 a year work 4 days a week. I’m annoyed that I can’t scale this but I don’t live pretty well to be honest. Medicine is good and steady for the long run but it’s not baller fuck you cash. The problem is you’re too deep now so just figure out how to make the best of your situation.

>> No.13740217

your job will be irrelevant soon

robot doctors

>> No.13740235

>>13740212
Meant to say I do live pretty well.

>> No.13740256

>>13739754
if you used all those student loans to buy bitcoin in 2010 you would be a billionaire

no it wasnt worth it but youre still alive. pleas go into a specialty that will make immortality possible

>> No.13740265

>>13740235
I should also note that I have 80k link I bought at ICO. So that’s the kinda shit that can catch fire and lift you fast and I didn’t give a fuck about losing 20k. I put 60k in crypto early on without even fucking blinking like I didn’t give one fuck if I lost it. So that’s the power of constant 20k a month post tax. Just keep your life expenses down and you’ll live like a king. I travel at least 4-5 vacations a year

>> No.13740304

>>13740092
Totally agree. But I think the fulfilling aspect is often overlooked. I have several bros who went to Ivy Leagues and are now are players on wallstreet, and everytime I talk with them, I don't regret my career at all. They literally all hate their lives and work worse hours than the average doc does. They make more sure, but it's so vacuous. Last time I was in NYC for interviews as a MS4, my friend lamented I had seen and done more in NYC in the last 3 days than he had done in the last 4 years there. Granted not all "business" is that brutal of schedules, but any of the guys raking it in on wallstreet are all working like dogs, and being an actual business owner/creating a business will easily be well over 80 hours a week as well. I would rather being doing medicine for 80 hours a week then being up at 3am on a Sat night changing fonts on a ppt presentation because everyone in wallstreet is so type A and neurotically demands the most inane and dumb shit to be done as the drop of hat.

Plus as you said, medicine engaging esp as AI play bigger and bigger roles in medicine and we get to offload a lot of the more boring shit (unfortunately it will also continue to drive down our compensation), but at least it will be exciting.

>>13740217
docs will always be needed. I actually work in a machine learning lab as a resident doc; we aren't going anywhere lol.

>>13740212
>>13740265
Jelly of your Link stack; 28k Link here, but I got in December 2017 with loan money as a student still

>> No.13740352

>>13740304
Ya I mean I have enough money I could have a huge link stack but I don’t see how we’re going to 100 on link but who knows I hope to hell it does.

I can’t tell you how fulfilled I am; I’m the main baller in the hospital I run circles intellectually around the older docs they all now to me and my patients are super happy and do very well and cured of some nasty diseases. That is gratifying as shit. And 4 days a week. No complaints really except some geographic restriction

>> No.13740388

>>13740217
You mean robo paramedics

>> No.13740449

>>13740352
what specialty are you and are you in a metro area or more suburbia?

I switched from ophtho to anesthesia last second because I hate outpatient and realized like 90% of my life would be outpatient as an ophthalmologist. Both have a lot of tight AI research which I focused on. But I only see anesthesia salaries continuing to drop for a while even the fellowship routes. If I can stay above 300k at an academic spot I'll be happy though

>> No.13740478

>>13739754
You'll be alright. What medicine do you want to study?

>> No.13740528

>>13739754
there is a career path i saw some doctor take which was getting to investing into BIOTECH companies

>> No.13740571

>>13740449
Ya gas is ok, I mean you can carve out a lot more of our life the way you want it and honestly you can take a ton of moonlighting and really kill it. I’m in a Uber metro area I got lucky. I won’t say my specialty but I’m a baller I can tell you that and didn’t have to sell my soul at all. Just focus on getting the first job and honestly you do need to spend time when you start so you get good and respected. Don’t half ass it spending time in crypto investing. I did that but it was after 2 years of establishing myself