Top earning jobs?

Should I be a lawyer in the future?

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raichupika33

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I'm taking my GCSE's in a few years and is wondering that kind of jobs would you get most paid of, here is what I can think of:

-Professional sports
-Medicine jobs (Doctor)
-Law (I wish to be a lawyer)
-Musician, acting
 
Proffessional sports are one of the hardest things to break into. Baseball may be the easiest of them all for having a 50 people per team, then they have 3 minor league teams. so thats about 200 people per organization in theory. Football is a straight up around 57 per team. Basketball is 30 per organization (15 active, and 15 D-League)...Hockey has alot of minor leagues, but most aren't associated with the NHL itself. But in a nutshell, you break into a major sport, you have to be playing it for a long time.

To be a doctor, thats alot of school work to even make it that far. Same for lawyer.

Then acting musician is almost just as hard as pro sports. So the easiest 2 on your list are lawyer and doctor. but again, all 4 are hard.
 
Lawyers and doctors get paid a lot, but do what you WANT to do. The last thing we want is a miserable doctor (who accidentily cuts right under your eye).

There are many other professions that make a good amount of money. Technology is on the rise. Computer Scientists and Computer Hardware specialists are making more and more for example.

Also, THINK ABOUT IT!!! You can only do sports for about 10-15 years. You'll only make a lot if you are really good. If you are, you will probably get injured. As for music and theater, its the same thing. You need to be really well known to make a ton of $$$.

Also, Lawyers are only paid well if they win the suit, or make rulings better for their clients.

Point being, money isn't everything. Its something, but not everything.
 
z-man said:
Also, THINK ABOUT IT!!! You can only do sports for about 10-15 years. You'll only make a lot if you are really good. If you are, you will probably get injured. As for music and theater, its the same thing. You need to be really well known to make a ton of $$$.
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Well for both of those, if you're really good, you'll get alot of endorsement deals during and even after your career. So you'd be sitting pretty your whole life.
 
In Australia, we're short of doctors...maybe you could be a doctor down under :)
 
Let's face it. The only way you're going to be well-paid in sports or arts is if you get famous.l The chances aren't as high as you think.

There is a push for science in some areas for awfully decent payment. A systems engineer (you can go look that up) has a medium salary of well over 80,000 and a top salary (assuming you become top dog) of six figures. Easy. Of course, if you're not interested in managing large masses of workforce to do projects (such as making BMWs or US Government spy planes), the you shouldn't bother :p

And going back to doctors, an anesthesiologist (something even higher than a surgeon) requires 12 years of training before every going into practice, but gets paid six figures (Medium salary is roughly close to 300,000 and top pay goes all the way to 400,000). Let's think about it: 12 years. Would you be willing to invest 12 years of something you aren't even interested in just to be well off?

In all honesty, it's really best if you pursue what you like best, and if you like law, then that's where you're going.
 
Light Venusaur said:
In Australia, we're short of doctors...maybe you could be a doctor down under :)
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You need proctologists in Australia? I'm sorry, but the joke had to be made. XD
 
^ Not funny, you killed the thread :/.

Anyway, never ever pick anything you won't enjoy. You will spend half of your life in Uni and Work. Why pick something you don't enjoy? For money? There are many jobs out there which are well paid. You just have to look around.

Luckily I want to become a doctor because I love it. Then there is that lovely pay. Lifes good.

Btw, Money brings happiness...
 
The best recession proof job is computer design/animation/video game design/etc.

Technology will not slow down, so it will ALWAYS be needing help in those areas.

Looking for the big money, start your own business.
 
Pokekid, entrepreneurship is not exactly a simple job, but something dealing with alot of management/investment. Sometimes, it's not even considered a job.
 
Many engineering jobs I have researched and have taken particular interest in, such as an Aerospace engineer, have capped out at salaries around $120,000 a year.
 
Entrepreneurs account for roughly 2/3 of current millionaires (excluding retirees).

2/3 of working millionaires work 45-55 hours a week.

Most businesses have either gone bankrupt or are sold within one and a half years.

Millionaires account for the top 3% of the population.



Also, something to think about:

A professor once asked a group of sixty MBA students who were executives of public corporations this question.

"What is risk?"

One student replied:

"Being an entrepreneur!"

His fellow students agreed. Then the professor answered his own question with a quote from an entrepreneur:

"What is risk? Having one source of income. Employees are at risk.... They have a single source of income. What about the entrepreneur who sells janitorial services to your employers? He has hundreds and hundreds of customers... hundreds and hundreds of sources of income.
 
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