I am an Engineer, he will be a doctor ?

Question

I am an electrical engineer, I just started working
Now my cousin ( whom i dislike for many reasons) is studying to become a doctor .
He'll be starting to work , i dn't know after his residency ..

I recenly researched the money he'll be making once he graduates and it's over a 100K-150K

Now i have no problem with him making enough money and enjoying his life , but I do believe that I am much smarter and motivated than him .

Now I am stuck with a degree where I can't get a starting salary of 100 - 150 k .( WHICH I WANT !!!!)


This sucks !!! mann!!
Any constuctive critisisms?

Answer 1

it doesn't matter what he makes. Me and my husband make six figures and he LOVES his job and I HATE my job. I would take a huge pay cut to be doing someting I enjoy. so if you are doing something you enjoy then why are you concerned with someone else's salary. your salary will increase and will increase into the six figures. Please don't waste your energy being jealous or envious or whatever negative feelings you are having. It is not worth it. If you know you are smarter and more motivated then turn that energy into something more positive for YOU and get a master's degree or a doctorate or find the job you really love. Be inspired. Be happy for others. Life is too short to feel envious or angry.

Answer 2

My boyfriend and good friend are both electrical engineers. They both have master's degrees in EE and neither of them make $150K. According to both of them you need to get a PhD in EE if you want to find a job that makes that kind of money and most of those jobs aren't entry level. Doctors go to school for many years and have high tuition bills. They work long hour days during their residency work and I don't believe they are paid very well during that time because its still part of their schooling. They pay high insurance rates because they are sued many times during their careers. Not all of them make $150K to start with anyway. If they work in a public hospital, they probably won't make as much as if they have a private practice. Plus public hospitals seem to always have funding problems and jobs get cut all the time.

By the way I have a business degree and work in sales and make more than my boyfriend does. Some of my colleagues clear up to $1million a year. If you want to make $150k a year look into sales. It is right up there on the top of the list of careers with the greatest earning potential, right next to medical and legal.

Answer 3

The worst way to spend the rest of your life is comparing yourself to someone else. And to pick someone who is making more money means you didn't give much thought to your income chances when you decided to be an engineer. That option was probably available for you, also. If not, then this isn't even an issue. If you could have been a doctor, but chose not to, chalk it up to a bad decision and move on.

Better to compare your life to someone who just returned from Iraq, with no legs, or with no Veterans medical coverage because of our insensitive government. Or, as I once did, compare yourself to someone who can't walk. (I had tennis elbow and had surgery for correction; my best friend had to live her life out of a wheel chair.) I got better, she didn't!!! When I would feel pity for me, I would call her, or her friend, who was also in a wheel chair. I immediately changed my self pity party to one of rejoicing that I didn't have MS, or anything similar to wreck my life.
We all go through what you are going through. My son, at 42, lives in "If only..." and I see it destroying his peace. He has a lovely wife and 3 healthy children, but all he can see is that he was always in the wrong place at the wrong time, or made some wrong career choices. He feels stuck. He can't see the forest for the trees...and is miserable.
Please, work on your thinking processes and when you feel bad, accept that, and then focus, not on what you don't have, or what your cousin does have, but on how wonderful your life is compared to others in worse situations.

Answer 4

Did you research your field and the salary range before you chose this path. Seeing how you did so with your cousins, I can only assume you spent as much time and hopefully more researching your own career path. If this is the case...why are you suddenly dissatisfied?
Because he makes more, or because you expected more?
There is no race to grab all that you can.
I have a friend who cheated his way through college..begged me to help write his papers with him because he was clueless. He married a rich girl, got setup in a job and calls me every 7 months to make sure that I am alive and ready to hear his latest acquisition (Last year was a 36 foot boat).
That's all good and fine...Because I am happy with my own job and my life. I do not have a 36 foot boat, no big nest egg in the bank...but I am OK with that. He lives his life and I live mine...Just because he makes a whole lot more, does not mean his life is richer....Why do you think he calls me to brag? I let him, because it makes him feel better.


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Answer 5

C'est la vie.

That is life, and envy is not very attractive. There was a quote that I don't remember exactly, but it went something like humility strengthens faults and pride weakens value.

Becoming a doctor is difficult work, and if he's able to do it, then he'll get paid as much as any other doctor. If he falls along the way, would you be happier? His life should not affect your life - just find things to make your own life as good as you want it to be.

Answer 6

First, you need to build up your own career in electrician. After you earn enough money, go to school and become a doctor.

If that doesn't work, then you should join the army and they will pay for you do go to college and then you can go to an ivy league school to graduate medical school. (People only look at where you graduated in terms of college).

If the two above ideas does not work, then take some of your army buddies and go show your douchebag cousin who the ***** is.
Hey good luck man.
Regards,

Jesse F.

Answer 7

You need to have two adjustments to your vision.

1) Money isnt everything. He is going to be working 36 hour shifts, and have NO family time.

2) Gross is not the same as net. Doctors gross $150k, but after very serious insurances, and fees they can net below $80.

Another point: as an engineer you can create/design products and license them to companies who produce them. That means you can make 5% net because of IP, and after you make the initial time/money investment you make that money without working for it. Doctors cant do that.

Another point: he is going to have to stay bleeding edge current in his field. Some parts of EE just dont change.

Dont waste your time on jealousy, or petty rivalry. Its a waste of time, and heart. Spend your efforts keeping your heart full, and dont pay attention to people like him. He has a hard working road in an industry that wants to steal his humanity and make him a "healing machine".

Answer 8

by the time he graduates, you could be making that much. And you probably won't have loans like he will, or the expenses of having a practice.

But it really sounds like you need to work on your dang self-confidence. Money isn't everything. Have a life, be happy.

Answer 9

Just wait it out. And unless he decides to start his own practice, his wage will probably not go up too much, whereas yours has a better chance. Also, if healthcare doesn't take a major change, that will start to affect doctor's salaries.

Answer 10

Get over your irrational competitiveness and materialism and figure out what life's actually about?
For crying out loud, nobody needs to make 100K a year.