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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my medical school class, many of the kids had parents of high incomes (lawyers, doctors, engineers) end yet they embarked on an unrelenting career path with crazy hours. Same with my husbands law school class- some many children of big law partners going into big law. Why? Why would you want your kids to suffer like you did? I’d never want my kids to go through the abusive medical training- I did it so she wouldn’t need to. Not understand why a parent would want these careers for their kids. [/quote]

Can't believe you are a doctor with that logic[/quote]

I actually have the same views after going to law school. Made no sense to me why rich families were sending their children to law school to grind out 80-90 hour weeks in law firms. I went to law school to break the cycle of poverty in my family, but I'm guiding my children to more lucrative, [b]less hellish careers like business and finance[/b]. [/quote]

Hahaha. You think the hours are better in prestige finance positions? Like investment banking, top tier private equity firms, consulting firms (MBB) or hedge funds? Nope. I've done two of these and the hours for non-partner level folks are every bit as challenging. FWIW, my parents are physicians and had hellish hours.[/quote]

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