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Originally Posted by FwdFtl
I disagree. This topic is a bit more specific. Historically speaking, (circa 1990's) college was a huge benefit and the cost to get in was low. In 2014 and moving forward, I believe most 4 year colleges are a bad deal.
Even you mentioned being a doctor. My fiancee who is a RN works closely with doctors and has heard a common theme among most of these doctors. They say, if they could do it all over again, they would have been a nurse.
Depending on the practice, these MD's have insane amounts of student loan debt and when it is paid off (~10 years later), they work so damn hard that the extra $10-30k they make over some of these RN's isn't worth it.
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You don't have a good example. You take the highest paid of any tier and the lowest paid of the other and compare them?
Nurses averaged 65k in 2012. Family medicine, geriatrics, and pediatricians easily double that on average.
I work with nurses and physicians everyday and have never heard a physician regret becoming a doctor. Now if you compare a specialty nurse, like a nurse anesthetist to an anesthesiologist you are talking about 160k vs 400k average. Doesn't seem to close to me.
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best...d-nurse/salary
http://healthcareers.about.com/od/co...r-Salaries.htm