I would agree with the majority of the posts on the subject thus far. Get a job where you have free time and money to hunt.


I'll take it a step further and suggest a career: Dentistry.

My father-in-law and brother-in-law are both dentists in rural Minnesota. The make very good money and work 4-4.5 days a week with weekends off. Plus you can schedule vacation time during major hunting seasons.

It may sounds like a lot of school, but assuming you start college at 18/19 and go straight through, you are out making $$$ by 25/26.

As a 4th year with 3 months left of med school, let me assure you that if you're even slightly above average intelligence for college, you can get into grad school if you're willing to bust your @$$ for 8 years. You need a college GPA of probably 3.5 or better and some extracurricular involvement.

Ask some of the other guys on here how many were set in their lifetime careers making 6 figures by age 25. My guess would be a very very small handful.

I'm not saying this is the only way to go by any means, but it's definitely a way to do it. With 5 years of residency and a life of being on call every 3rd or 4th weekend ahead of me, there have been many times where I have wished I would have gone to dental school.

Good Luck!