I've posted before about my issue of selecting the right career for me....and Ive run into some facts that have made me serioulsy consider changing my major all together...
Up untill now...I've had my eyes set on being a Lawyer....probably a corporate lawyer....I think being in law would be quite intresting and challenging ....law gives me the frame work to constantly prove myself and make tons of money doing it..
The avg earning of a lawyer is $100,000 dollars...many lawyers make more than that..many make less...
But I never bothered to check completly the amount of hours that a Lawyer works...it turns out to be that a laywer working for a firm must work 1900 billable hours in a year...thats excluding pro bono..and other administrative duties and obligations.
Thats 8:00 am to 9:00 pm...including everything..lunch breaks...coffee breaks and travel...
http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Career_Development/cdo-billable.htm
The amount of work and time required is very taxing....I was reading articles about how most lawyers are very unhappy and less satisfied than other professions...and they also consider suicide much more often...ouch.
Ive also had a passion for Biology/Chemistry....I studied them in my first year of college...
I was looking at the work hours for dentist's and they usually work only 40 hours a week...thats 9:00 am to 4:00 pm...the rest of the day is left to enjoy....
Dentists make an avg of $123,000 dollars a year and thats just those who are salried...this figure excludes those who have thier own practice's which is higher than the 123k.
Now Im in my second year of college...half way though the first semester...im 19 yrs old....
Going to dental school in the United States would take anywhere from 6-7 more years from where I am right now....
Im thinking about going back to my native country of India where they have a 5 year dental program..its a foriegn graduate school...and I would have to take a test to be licensed here in this country...but the Indian Institution provides excellent education...so I shouldnt be worried...
I could be done by 26 and making hopefully close to 90k...starting and the expenses of a Dental education in India are much Cheaper than the United States.
The only problem with going ahead with this that I would have to give up the comforts of this country esp..the hanging out and partying....the moral values in my counrty are very strict ...so most girls are very reserved....when it comes to sex...
But Everyone says that these years are your best years...the years between 20-27...my years will prob be spent studying In a foreign country...I have family there though..and my family there is quite wealthy too back in India.
Ive lived In Nyc my whole life....maybe Im afraid of change..but I have alwasy wanted a car with a fine blonde babe sitting next to me...going off to a chique bar or club or party...basically exploring the nightlife...of Nyc...Im 19 but I really havent come out of my shell yet..
When I go to the city I can see couples walking together and guys from colleges roaming the streets at night having a good time laughing and enjoying...going bar hoping or clubbing...or throwing parties at hotel rooms...and meeting up with diffrent girls night after night..driving around the city at 2:00 in the morning with two girls in the back of the car with two guys in the front..all four of them looking really sexy (girls)..souave(guys)...you can see guys chilling....smoking weed...playing drinking games..hooking up...just being wild and fun.....socailly dynamic.
I know Im going to miss out on my oppurtunity to do all of what i mentioned above..... if I go back to India to study....Im now in the position to make a choice...I can either go and try to get accepted and pursue dentistry...or I can hope to enjoy my time as a young kind and try to break out my shell and do the things that I want to do...the things I mentioned above. Getting accepted into medical.dentistry school is quite difficult...I think it is easier in foreign schools..thats why I would have to go abroad to study dentisty.
Up untill now...I've had my eyes set on being a Lawyer....probably a corporate lawyer....I think being in law would be quite intresting and challenging ....law gives me the frame work to constantly prove myself and make tons of money doing it..
The avg earning of a lawyer is $100,000 dollars...many lawyers make more than that..many make less...
But I never bothered to check completly the amount of hours that a Lawyer works...it turns out to be that a laywer working for a firm must work 1900 billable hours in a year...thats excluding pro bono..and other administrative duties and obligations.
Thats 8:00 am to 9:00 pm...including everything..lunch breaks...coffee breaks and travel...
http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Career_Development/cdo-billable.htm
The amount of work and time required is very taxing....I was reading articles about how most lawyers are very unhappy and less satisfied than other professions...and they also consider suicide much more often...ouch.
Ive also had a passion for Biology/Chemistry....I studied them in my first year of college...
I was looking at the work hours for dentist's and they usually work only 40 hours a week...thats 9:00 am to 4:00 pm...the rest of the day is left to enjoy....
Dentists make an avg of $123,000 dollars a year and thats just those who are salried...this figure excludes those who have thier own practice's which is higher than the 123k.
Now Im in my second year of college...half way though the first semester...im 19 yrs old....
Going to dental school in the United States would take anywhere from 6-7 more years from where I am right now....
Im thinking about going back to my native country of India where they have a 5 year dental program..its a foriegn graduate school...and I would have to take a test to be licensed here in this country...but the Indian Institution provides excellent education...so I shouldnt be worried...
I could be done by 26 and making hopefully close to 90k...starting and the expenses of a Dental education in India are much Cheaper than the United States.
The only problem with going ahead with this that I would have to give up the comforts of this country esp..the hanging out and partying....the moral values in my counrty are very strict ...so most girls are very reserved....when it comes to sex...
But Everyone says that these years are your best years...the years between 20-27...my years will prob be spent studying In a foreign country...I have family there though..and my family there is quite wealthy too back in India.
Ive lived In Nyc my whole life....maybe Im afraid of change..but I have alwasy wanted a car with a fine blonde babe sitting next to me...going off to a chique bar or club or party...basically exploring the nightlife...of Nyc...Im 19 but I really havent come out of my shell yet..
When I go to the city I can see couples walking together and guys from colleges roaming the streets at night having a good time laughing and enjoying...going bar hoping or clubbing...or throwing parties at hotel rooms...and meeting up with diffrent girls night after night..driving around the city at 2:00 in the morning with two girls in the back of the car with two guys in the front..all four of them looking really sexy (girls)..souave(guys)...you can see guys chilling....smoking weed...playing drinking games..hooking up...just being wild and fun.....socailly dynamic.
I know Im going to miss out on my oppurtunity to do all of what i mentioned above..... if I go back to India to study....Im now in the position to make a choice...I can either go and try to get accepted and pursue dentistry...or I can hope to enjoy my time as a young kind and try to break out my shell and do the things that I want to do...the things I mentioned above. Getting accepted into medical.dentistry school is quite difficult...I think it is easier in foreign schools..thats why I would have to go abroad to study dentisty.
