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Originally Posted by Heero
You should never pursue an education with the expectation of making a certain income or getting into a certain field.
According to your line of thinking, anyone taking a bsc is entitled to an above average salary. That is the same thinking that teachers and their unions have, which is totally wrong.
Just because you have a "more difficult" education, does not mean you should be making more than other people automatically.
Thats just not how the job market works.
If you are pursuing higher levels of academia because you want to be rewarded monetarily, you are probably in the wrong field.
I'm starting law school in September. Not because I want to be a corporate lawyer making oodles of cash, but because I am interested in helping people.
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I just want to clarify that I'm not trying to pull the "my major is better than your's" thing, I'm just using it as an example because that is all i have experience with!
Although I do want to enjoy my career, there comes a point where you need to ask yourself whether it is smart to risk unemployment and a potential lower standard of life in the pursuit of something you kind of enjoy. Why should there be this compromise?
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I too attended university because I wanted to help people, I wanted to be that guy that cures cancer or the one who cures AIDS because I thought if I worked hard enough I could accomplish this. Well just look at the scientists who worked their asses off to create advances in Cancer treatments using comparative physiology just to have their studies halted and left unemployed because they received no grant or funding for further testing.