<p>Here is my dilemma: I'm extremely interested in the sciences (biology/ biochem in particular). I've been reading some posts on the medical profession and I'm not sure its right for me. As much as I do enjoy the subject and its academic demands as well as helping people, I really don't think that I can justify going to school for 7-10 years after college for merely $100-200k and some sense of accomplishment. In other words, medicine for me is not a great enough passion that itd be able to outweigh all the costs of the career, and there seems to be many. So my question: What medical/ biochem related jobs truly pay well, in which the many years of schooling actually pays off financially? Or, of course, is it a lost cause, if money is important to me I'd be better off going to business school? I'd appreciate any response, and I apologize for how money driven my question is.</p>
<p>100-200k is a mere amount of money? No career will guarantee you to make a bunch of money. You have to be good at what you do. Not every single doctor is going to make 100k a year, and anyways those salaries are just averages, so you have to take that into account. Bioengineering involves the sciences and doesn't require you to attend school as long as a doctor would need to. I'm not positive but I think they make a good living. I'm not sure what you see a good living as because 100-200k should be a good, comfortable amount, but if you want to have a three story house with a 12 car garage in four parts of the nation I would say that the average doctor/engineer would not make around there. If you want to become really rich, then it's a different story. Maybe try the pharmaceutical business. That involves chemistry and can obviously lead to cash if you make it to the top. But no matter what you have to be good at what you do.</p>
<p>Mere in the sense that it requires around 10 years of graduate schooling/residency/etc. be4 you could possibly see those figures. Trust me I do understand that there is no golden job that guarantees riches, but surely certain jobs have a greater potential for such a possibility. I just want to know which science related avenues have this kind of potential. And again, as greedy (add adjective) as I'm sounding, I'm just trying to get a handle on what I was to pursue, since clearly I'm unsure, which is OK for now.</p>