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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an attorney 20 years out and although I love my field I too struggled with the path less taken (I really wanted to go get a CNM and deliver babies!).

Although life is long (if you're lucky), I think the path from JD to MD at this point is probably too long -- whatever prereqs, then 4 years of med school and 4 years of residency. So then you're 50-ish with a LOT of debt and a whole career to start over. Plus no realistic way to support your family while you're in school and residents are only a step above starving students -- plus you're working crazy hours away from your family.

To me, it sounds like you do need to do some deep thinking about how you want your career to go -- but I don't think you have to go back to school in medicine to do good in this world and to be more satisfied and fulfilled doing it. That path is familiar because people in your family did it, but you need to think outside the family history box.

There are so many things you can do with your law degree and legal training to help make the world a better place. I'm a litigator for a major environmental non-profit advocacy organization and I get to do incredibly interesting work on behalf of a cause that is tremendously important to me.

Lawyers reinvent themselves all the time without going back to school for an entirely different degree. I would brainstorm a lot more about what kinds of jobs you could do with your legal training that would make you happier than you are now.[/quote]

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