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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A practical option would be to become a physician assistant. Sure it’s not prestigious when you come from a long line of doctors. But who has to wake up every day and go to work for years and years? At your deathbed, will you regret not trying to be in the medical field in some fashion or another? PA salaries are pretty good for just two extra years of schooling. Plus there’s an increasing demand for them. Lastly, you might incur debt, but since you mentioned all the doctors in your family, couldn’t they help you out some now? Or crudely speaking, wouldn’t you get some inheritance in the future that will help you repay any loans you might still have then? 
I am an attorney, 15 years out. I graduated from a T14, was on my school’s journal, started out in Biglaw, now government. But I never really shook off the feeling that this field was a mistake. Frankly my gut told me so even during law school. But I was told not to waste this Ivy League JD opportunity, that practicing would be different, dunk costs blah blah blah. I am risk averse so never had the courage to leave the law. But due to my mixed feelings about the fit for me, I never thrived in the legal field either. 15 years in, I’m still languishing as a relatively junior legal position at an embarrassingly low GS for my years out. Disgruntled but too risk averse to change fields.[/quote]

What kind of career do you think would have made you happy if not law? There seems to be many unhappy lawyers on dcum who are now working for the government.[/quote]

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