Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UMC kids are not rich. Rich kids can be lazy. The reason you are upper middle class is because you do not have generational wealth.
DH is a specialized surgeon and earns ~$1.5m. I always tell our kids they have to work hard because we are UMC. We can provide them a good childhood and pay for their college and education but they have to work to support themselves and provide a good life for their future families.
We will be able to pay for college, grad school, wedding and a down payment on their house. Maybe their kids’ educations. They will not be trust fund babies who can afford not to work.
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I believe it. If you do t want your kids to have to work a day in their lives, you need to be able to give them 10-20 million in their twenties.
consistently earning 1.5 a year should put you in a position to do that if you choose to (unless you are also spending 1.5 a year)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well yeah, UMC kids go into finance and VC and such which is much more chill than medicine. Only immigrants and LMC go into medicine.
cite? I used to work in an administrative role at a medical school, just for a year and a half, and I saw the opposite. in fact one of the big efforts when I was there was to get more income diversity because it was almost overwhelmingly kids from well-off backgrounds at our school. And I did a little research as I was contributing to some of these efforts and that seemed to be pretty consistent across medical schools.
UMC have money to put their kids through med school or other high priced schools plus UMC kids can focus solely on school work and residency without having to get another job to support themselves.
Scholarships don’t cover everything
Kids from UMC have all the advantages, tutors from k-12, higher test scores, less stress from home life… money
Black and brown kids are don’t have these privileges
Unless they are UMC black and brown kids. UMC and black/brown are not mutually exclusive.
Yes seriously, some of these race-focused liberals are part of the problem with all their stereotypes.
- signed a brown person with multiple doctor friends who are doing just fine, thanks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting you describe medical training as abusive. Do you think you are a martyr or something?
It is well known that medical training has insane hours requirements. Not uncommon to work over 100 hour weeks constantly with no break. A recent study found that pregnant residents more likely to have miscarriages and bad birth outcomes due to the hour. Most people know this.
So what? There are plenty of lower grade professions who work, long hard hours. Think of the roofers
working atop buildings (where floor temps reach 140f) from 6am to 8 pm to finish the job, before the
thunderstorms rain down. Think of firemen with heavy suits and concrete construction workers. Think of
Field military personnel. I’m an MD
BTW, my Med school training and 5 years as resident were a walk in the park.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UMC kids are not rich. Rich kids can be lazy. The reason you are upper middle class is because you do not have generational wealth.
DH is a specialized surgeon and earns ~$1.5m. I always tell our kids they have to work hard because we are UMC. We can provide them a good childhood and pay for their college and education but they have to work to support themselves and provide a good life for their future families.
We will be able to pay for college, grad school, wedding and a down payment on their house. Maybe their kids’ educations. They will not be trust fund babies who can afford not to work.
You are spoiling them. They will do nothing with their lives.
Anonymous wrote:I know several parents who have become very successful and wanted their kids to have it easier than they did. One family has four kids. Only one is successful, two live off of their parents, one OD-ed. Another: Three kids, two live off of parents, one OD-ed. Another: three kids, none work, one died in 20s from crazy accident. Another: two kids, one successful working for the dad, the other dead from a crazy accident. I literally could list more.
Kids have to be taught a work ethic and responsibility, and they need to believe they can succeed and need too.