Do you think your teen is smart enough to become a doctor*?

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Anonymous wrote:Doctor here and I hope my kid is smart enough to become a plumber.

More money in plumbing, actually, than in some medical areas, and an apprenticeship is nearly as hard as getting through a second tier medical school. And no constant threat of being sued out of existence.

Why do people talk like this? Hyperbolic and makes you sound stupid.

...go ahead and respond how plumbers have no debt, how they're happier, find me the owner of a business that grosses $1.4M a year, blah blah.

The [b]average plumber hates their life, [/b]struggles to pay bills, has serious health conditions by age 50, and has no college fund for the kids. Great life!

And you know this how? How many plumbers have you had a longer than 5 minute conversation with, much less a meaningful one?

I'm not the PP, but my dad is a plumber.

His back and knees are wrecked. He's had multiple surgeries on each and also has arthritis and carpal tunnel.

He did fine for himself, but never earned as much as my mother who was a teacher.

From the time we were 10-15 (and old enough to get an afterschool job) he took us on his plumbing calls to show us how dirty and physically demanding his job was. He wanted something different for us. It is back breaking work. And owning your own business as a tradesman comes with all sorts of fun things like trying to get your clients to pay, people constantly trying to tell you a sob story to get you to knock something off the bill, staying up late making out invoices, people thinking your work isn't valuable because you don't have a degree, people expecting you to answer your phone at midnight when they've finally given up trying to fix something themselves and then berating you for not answering, etc.