does being an M.D. help?

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May 10, 2006 | 10:51 am

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Originally Posted by Conan59er

Lawyers, quit feeling sorry for yourself. At least you aren't Petroleum Engineers!

It could be worse. You could work for a defense contractor or Big Pharma!

Someone close works for a defense-related company... "oh, so you make bombs that kill babies for a living?". Or someone working in pharmaceuticals might get "oh, you deny affordable drugs to millions living with HIV/AIDS so you can 'research' anti-wrinkle creams"

Interesting thread, me chugging along in med school and research... (thankfully, I am not accumulating debt though)

May 10, 2006 | 11:00 am

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ok yeah...i can see now it was a stupid question...sorry i brought it up...i don't know what i was smoking.

You should actually feel good about where this thread has gone. At least, when you're sitting in your coach seat, you don't have to lie to your seatmate about what you do. Just remember this line, "That's not my area of expertise."

May 10, 2006 | 11:06 am

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...She made the statement that a JD is equivalent to a Ph.D. - I kept silent but strongly disagreed. ...

I would not have kept my silence. Instead, I would have burst into uncontrollable laughter. My jesuit high school was harder than my big state school college, which was harder than law school. For the most part, law school courses come down to a single exam at the end of the semester. You really don't need to go to class (and, after first year, I rarely did).

May 10, 2006 | 6:43 pm

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Mentioning that I work in the oilfield about 30 seconds before the girl starts cutting my hair. Nothing like getting a haircut while listening to a tirade about the price of gas. ...

How about this: "please don't cut me, since if I can't work, that's a little less oil production, and thus higher gas prices." Not very logical, but more than the idea of blaming you for the price at the pump.

May 11, 2006 | 4:26 am

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At age 45, the truck driver ends up about $1,000,000 ahead. The stock broker and the attorney end up about even. The neurosurgeon ends up about $1,000,000 behind.

Between age 45 and 60, we're talking about a neurosurgeon making $250,000 to $800,000 per year more than the truck driver. That "$1,000,000 behind" will disappear very quickly beyond age 45.

May 11, 2006 | 5:06 am

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Was thinking of saying "Well actually, my job is to get it out of the ground cheaper." but kept quiet b/c I don't think it would have mattered much. Nice that somebody else gets it though, dhuey! :-)

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