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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op sounds like a troll.[/quote]

This is a troll post for sure. Thinking everyone can "make $150k by their 30s". Should we just not have teachers, professors, physical therapists, nurses in DC? There are plenty of professional jobs that don't make $150k.[/quote]

Understand your point but, as a woman, I purposely didn’t go into a a more flexible but lower paying field like physical therapy, speech therapy, social work etc. I know MANY women who did this, banking on getting married to someone making multiple times their salaries, and then ultimately staying at home with their kids before maybe going back to work. at 22, I didn’t see the ROI- those low paying fields, while extremely noble and possibly fulfilling, require grad school and very little opportunity to make decent money long term. I was thinking along the lines of “I want to get married at some point, but what happens if I don’t? What career would I need to support myself adequately, and has more possibilities for making decent money?”[/quote]

That’s fine, but if no one went into speech therapy your brat would never learn how to enunciate properly. Guess it’s good some people are more selfless.[/quote]

I don’t think people go into OT or ST because they’re selfless. I think they’re possibly interested in it and probably are attracted to the flexibility of it, being that these are female dominated girls. It’s just a gamble in the sense that it’s generally low paying and you need to bank on marrying a significantly higher earner to have a middle class life in any HCOL area.

That said, I have a child in speech therapy and occupational therapy. The therapists charge 125 and 170 dollars for 45 minutes, respectively, and they don’t accept insurance. So maybe they’re not doing too poorly.

But yes, generally I think it’s silly to choose a low paying career out of “selflessness” and I think it’s equally silly to assume that’s why people choose these fields. 
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I work in healthcare at a large DMV area (RN). Most of the people who work in these roles do not live in DC, commute in from the burbs (especially easy when your workday starts at 7am and is over at 3:30pm, or you work nightshifts), and yes, they marry each other and do just fine. They also generally wouldn't pay attention to a site like DCUM where people make these ridiculous assumptions that they should have married a rich doctor or whatever due to being a low earning RN or nurses aide, etc.  Generally, the majority of the entire DC hospital is staffed by people who do not live in DC. Quite a lot in burbs outside the beltway and just commute in during non-rush hour times.[/quote]

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