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[quote=Anonymous]medicine is tough just because of the LOOOONG training track.  I know someone who tried at 40 and didn't make it.  took the prereqs, blew the lid off the MCATs and still couldn't get a medschool to accept her.  They were pretty frank, for the most part, that medical school + residency is really pretty much a minimum  of 6 years, likely more.  if she made it through, she would likely only practice for 10-15 years or less.  that makes it a hard sell for the student AND the school.  they don't get to train but so many people and prefer to train people who are going to work for another 30 years after they finish training. my friend did some research and a LOT of soul-searching and became a nurse.  She likes it!

anyway, career tracks with shorter runways are a better bet than medicine.  plenty of people make late life switches.  I know a few second-career teachers, and LOTS of people who switched tracks within law to do something totally different, an English professor who became a PA, a finance guy who started a food truck, a journalist who went into PR, etc.  Like the PP, I imagine your best bet would be to reinvent your law career.  There are lots of ways to be a lawyer.[/quote]

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