Yes all of this is probably true, but the point is eventually you will make a pretty good wage. 75,80,90 100k. At this job you will probably never break the 50k mark.

A doctor who starts at age 18 studying to be a physician, will practice by the age of 29, assuming hes only general practice. Okay so he starts at around 100,000 or so a year and the pay gets better and better. Sure he's in a lot of debt from it (i knew a doctor to have 450,000 in student loans - 4 year private univeristy 4 year private medical school). But in the end he'll make a lot more money than some guy who makes 50k starting at age 18 until retirement.

Assuming a doctor never made more than that starting 100k, started at age 29, worked til 60. He made 3.1 million dollars in 31 years. That 50k a year guy worked 42 years, which would be 11 years more, and made 1 million less. But of course that doctor would probably eventually make well over 200k a year.

My uncle right now works 1 day a week in an urgent care unit and probably makes roughly $50,000 a year on his 10 hour work week, in addition to his military pension (colonel)