Some strange answers on this post, I work as a Nuerosurgeon in Tampa, Florida and you shouldn't be worried about pay, you need to be worried about debt. After medical school you need to pay off ( at least I had to pay off ) $120,000 on a student loan. I was basically paying a mortgage before I'd ever owned anything worth more than 10,000 ( besides my brain of course ;) which is worth $120,000 thx to school ) anyways I was about to pay off my student loan in approximately 18 months as a proffesional Neurosurgeon. The thing is, you get paid more as you attain more experience in-field. My first month pay check I'd ever gotten was a humble 18,400 at the end of the year I'd earned little over 200,000. If it's any constelation after 12 years of experience in my proffesion I earned $73,375 on my first pay check of this year ( I got this on the last day of Jan. ).
I've met many cardiologist and one of them made a little over $1,200,000 last year but he's 57 and has been doing this for a long time probably about 34 years now. I've also met a Nuerosurgeon in the USAF ( United States Air Force ) he worked with them for some 16 years before retiring. He now recieves a pension every year. He has permenant Health/Dental and he never had a single college loan because the Air Force pays for medical school. Before he retired he made ( in service ) $1,700,000 annually how you ask? He was a O-7 AKA Brigadier General which is the one star. He wasn't always a Surgeon in the air force, he used to fly a
B-52 bomber but then decided he would rather save peoples lives then end them ( or rather save peoples lives who will then in turn kill others ).
In any case I believe whatever proffession you prefer, if you have an annual sallary of +$200,000 then it doesn't matter if you make $ 1 million or a fifth of that ( $200,000 ) because after 10 years of it you'll have massed up a large amount of money that you'll find isn't the hardest thing to just *spend*.
I've met many cardiologist and one of them made a little over $1,200,000 last year but he's 57 and has been doing this for a long time probably about 34 years now. I've also met a Nuerosurgeon in the USAF ( United States Air Force ) he worked with them for some 16 years before retiring. He now recieves a pension every year. He has permenant Health/Dental and he never had a single college loan because the Air Force pays for medical school. Before he retired he made ( in service ) $1,700,000 annually how you ask? He was a O-7 AKA Brigadier General which is the one star. He wasn't always a Surgeon in the air force, he used to fly a
B-52 bomber but then decided he would rather save peoples lives then end them ( or rather save peoples lives who will then in turn kill others ).
In any case I believe whatever proffession you prefer, if you have an annual sallary of +$200,000 then it doesn't matter if you make $ 1 million or a fifth of that ( $200,000 ) because after 10 years of it you'll have massed up a large amount of money that you'll find isn't the hardest thing to just *spend*.