Should I go to medical school and end up 200k+ in debt to be a neurosurgeon?

[steveh492]

I’ll be one at 32 if everything goes right

 

[Kelly Oubre Jr]

yes

 

[Askeladd93270]

If you like studying yes if not no, to me it's a waste of life, to others it brings them dopamine when they calculate numbers

 

[pahadi mogger]

Only if you’re obsessed. Neurosurgery is not something you do, it’s something you become. If you’re chasing status, money, or external validation, that debt and grind will break you. But if your brain lights up thinking about the cortex at 3 a.m., then yeah,send it. Just know you’re trading your 20s for it.

 

[steveh492]

I dont want to trade my 20s away I like any medical field even dentistry and I like technology. Should I be an electrical engineer? What job would you recommend for most amount of money that I don’t have to trade my life away for

Only if you’re obsessed. Neurosurgery is not something you do, it’s something you become. If you’re chasing status, money, or external validation, that debt and grind will break you. But if your brain lights up thinking about the cortex at 3 a.m., then yeah,send it. Just know you’re trading your 20s for it.

 

[realfederalegent]

good slave

 

[pahadi mogger]

I dont want to trade my 20s away I like any medical field even dentistry and I like technology. Should I be an electrical engineer? What job would you recommend for most amount of money that I don’t have to trade my life away for

If you're already worried about trading your 20s, neurosurgery isn’t your path,and that’s fine. Not everyone needs to suffer to win. You like tech and medicine? Then play the overlap. Look into biomedical engineering, medtech startups, AI in diagnostics. Dentistry gives you balance, tech gives you leverage.

 

[thereallegend]

To be a neurosurgeon? No. But a doctor yes.

 

[steveh492]

If you're already worried about trading your 20s, neurosurgery isn’t your path,and that’s fine. Not everyone needs to suffer to win. You like tech and medicine? Then play the overlap. Look into biomedical engineering, medtech startups, AI in diagnostics. Dentistry gives you balance, tech gives you leverage.

Ima be an orthodontist their annual salary where I am is around 240k and dentists make around the same so should I be a dentist or orthodontist?

 

[steveh492]

To be a neurosurgeon? No. But a doctor yes.

What type of doctor?

 

[pahadi mogger]

Ima be an orthodontist their annual salary where I am is around 240k and dentists make around the same so should I be a dentist or orthodontist?

Orthodontist is a solid choice,clean hours, high margins, no emergencies at 2 a.m. If you're wired for precision and patience, it's the perfect play. But don’t just chase salary projections. Shadow a few practitioners. See whose day you’d actually want. You can stack cash in either path, but long-term happiness isn’t in the paycheck—it’s in whether the daily grind fits your psychology.

 

[thereallegend]

What type of doctor?

You're gonna have to pay me for that type of advice

 

[fuckinnefor]

I’ll be one at 32 if everything goes right

Yes . Being a neurosurgeon is a great job . U will get out of debt in no time .

 

[cytoplasm]

You likely don't have the capicity to become a neurosurgeon

 

[2marc1]

I’ll be one at 32 if everything goes right

look for something you like, this type of jobs will literally make you kill yourself, and you'll give up

 

[superpsycho]

good slave

 

[superpsycho]

up to u bro ur prob more hardworking than me

 

[kana]

fuck that, just speed run your degree in BSN Nursing, now you have a trade, in our miserable dogshit economy in a world that's heading for war, knowing nursing is quite useful, now grind for a few years and dip off to another country with a good currency exchange rate and live the good life, that just sounds like a whole lot of stress for a job that could lose all relevance at any given moment, boring as fuck too