<p>If I knew earning 100K with finance is this hard then I would’ve gone into medicine. They need to do four to six more years in medicial school, but I have to do a MBA. The problem is that Harvard or Yale MBA doesn’t want people whose work experience is 40K accounting jobs. MDs easily get 100K after graduation. ■■■</p>
<p>Actually you’re real problem is you should have done something you loved instead of chasing that 100k.</p>
<p>Salaries are just a way of keeping score, a way to look down on people with lower salaries. It’s not like you’ll die if you don’t make $100k out of college, you’ll just have to deal with people looking down on you instead of vice-versa.</p>
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<p>I wholeheartedly agree. It doesn’t matter if that guy makes $100k out of college, he’ll still feel inferior to people who make much more than that.</p>
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<p>I imagine it would be a lot easier to live close to where you work in Iowa than CA. Oh, wait, that’s right, I always hear about the massive traffic jams on I-80 and not I-5.</p>
<p>Anyway, I never got the coastal elitism that is so strong with most people on CC. It’s not like you can’t move to Iowa, get your same Prius, and have more than enough money to get a moderate sized house, install solar panels on it, and make your own organic garden. You know, so you can have organic food from ten feet away from your dinner table instead of ten thousand miles.</p>
<p>Probably because rural New England is a million times better than the rural Midwest.</p>
<p>And Iowa’s pretty liberal, too, despite it’s reputation as a hick state they’ve voted Democratic in 5 out of the past 6 elections and have legalized gay marriage (by a unanimous court ruling, not 5-4 like California’s)</p>
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<p>Easily indeed. First is 4 years of undergrad, in a field that really necessitates further education to make ANY kind of real money. Then, if you’re lucky enough to get in, is 4 years of grueling medical school which costs upwards of $150k. Next, saddled with debt (which quickly accumulates interest), med students graduate into residents, where they make 40k while working 80-100hr weeks, for some 2-6 years. After that they can finally make six figure incomes, a lot of which goes right to paying off that massive debt.</p>
<p>Fast track to wealth, that career.</p>
<p>iamsounsure is right. Your real problem is wanting nothing more out of your education and work life than to make >100k. I wish you well, my friend.</p>
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It’s not just CC, it’s the entire east coast. So many people here think PA is the midwest and everything else just doesn’t matter, except for California. Gotta love east coast snobbery. And having experience with both rural midwest and rural new england, I’d hardly say one is better than the other.</p>
<p>Pretty much.</p>
<p>I couldn’t imagine living in Iowa. I would, however, like to move to some place in coastal Maine or Massachusetts. I don’t know how realistic that is.</p>
<p>Don’t become a doctor for the money. Money-grubbing pre-meds make me sick.</p>
<p>“Don’t become a doctor for the money. Money-grubbing pre-meds make me sick.”</p>
<p>Really? And finance and pre-laws don’t? That’s a lot of misdirected anger there.</p>
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<p>I think I see more of it here in LA than when I was back on the east coast, but that might just be because I grew up in eastern PA.</p>
<p>(And, for the record, as someone that went to college in Pittsburgh, it is the midwest. They say pop and not soda!)</p>
<p>That’s true… Californians have their own version of it. My entire extended family (californians) think I’m crazy for living anywhere where it gets cold or where there aren’t beaches. Why would you ever do that???</p>
<p>But really, nothing compares to the time that someone from mass. asked me “you’re from the midwest? That’s so sad you’ve never seen the leaves change?” REALLY? We have trees! We have seasons! Where’s the missing variable?</p>
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<p>And what about us from PA?</p>
<p>I don’t want to start a separate thread, but how many people actually choose their careers based on interest rather than money? Because not everyone loves something that’s practical in the real world. I like computer games, skiing, and reading books. </p>
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<li>Can’t find a job that employs people to play games. </li>
<li>Not good enough to be an Olympic skier. </li>
<li>Want to read books I like, not random literature about black markets in Nigeria given to me by the editor of a newspaper. I hate writing stuff so I’m not going to write books.</li>
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<p>Maybe some of you like helping people and that’s why you’re in medicine. Then that’s good. But it’s NOT my fault that my hobbies aren’t practical.</p>
<p>There are companies that employ computer game testers- aka “quality assurance”, you could work in developing computer games, and then there’s being an editor for reading books–granted you might have to play or design games that don’t interest you or read books like…Twilight.</p>
<p>Most jobs pay the bills. Getting a $100k plus job is a way to look down on people, plain and simple.</p>
<p>EDIT: not really. Sometimes you get $100k+ just by being in a field you like, and being good at what you do. I should have said that making money for the sake of making money is a way to look down on people.</p>
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<p>But surely you have SOME form of academic interest that’s applicable to holding a job? </p>
<p>And ditto to plattsburgh.</p>
<p>a friend of mine who just graduated had this conversation with me. he’s in the same major and he’s working overseas with a bank (held an internship the previous summer, got offered a job). he’s doing IT work. however he’s looking to get fired and do something else. why? he has no passion for it. after much discussion it comes down to having a passion for what you do. it’s one thing to like something, but to enjoy it as a job is another. i would never get caught doing something i hate for a career.</p>
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<p>“I don’t want to start a separate thread, but how many people actually choose their careers based on interest rather than money? Because not everyone loves something that’s practical in the real world.”</p>
<p>I had a very smart guy tell me that kids should do what they love and not worry about money. I disagreed with him back then but I agree more with him today. But I’m in a position to do that. If you or your family is well-off and will support majors that don’t pay well, then you can afford to do what you love to. And who knows, you might get rich at it - yes, it does happen. If things are a little less certain, then maybe you might want to think about salary surveys when you select your major.</p>
<p>Video game testers do not play video games. They test video games. There is a big difference.</p>