Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Dentists <snip> ... building a business that could be worth millions someday.
We all make choices in life. A little sacrifice and non-self centered living offers huge benefits. Dentists, Doctors lawyers and policemen are busy building real lives while pilots play peter pan and waste their days away in the sky.
SkyHigh
Life, no matter, what you do, is real. That includes pilots, and even people who spend countless hours on internet forums.
Police officers in my mid-market city start at 21,000/yr, and it doesn't move up all that fast or to that much. Needless to say they are hurting for police officers.
Only the highest level doctors make the millions that people seem to think all doctors make. I have a close friend who is in family practice and he makes decent, but not great money. He works at patient first on weekends for extra money. My highest paid friends are all attorneys. I don't know any millionaire dentists, though I'm sure there are some that are cosmetic surgeons.
In short, do whatever inspires you; in the end, that's what will inspire others when they talk about you at your funeral.
If you "love yourself at all" you will do something that makes you happy, something that you will succeed at, something that works for you and your family, and something that you didn't need advice from an internet forum to figure out.