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Originally Posted by wooohooo
*sigh* The many kids nowadays in University with all their rent, tuition and food covered. It used to the the anomaly, now it seems pretty popular. Damn rich kids.
So Ren, I'm also thinking about Dental School. After my first two years of University, I got accepted into Med School, but that summer I shadowed a couple doctors and realized that it was just not for me. The hours are terrible, it's competitive and it just wasn't what I wanted. However, my friend took the route of being a Dentist and now he's starting to work and he's paid off his student loans, owns a M3, and has extremely great hours. Not to mention he only works 4 days a week.
Hopefully life as a Dentist (assuming I get in and everything else) is as great as it seems. That being said, I heard general is one of the most monotonous jobs out there.
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Here's how I look at dentistry: If you want to basically own your own money-printing business, work 30 hours a week, live in a million dollar home in Springbank, take vacations whenever you want, never answer to anybody, avoid all the hassle of trying to beat out a million other people for a seat in medical school, have people come back to give you money every 6 months guaranteed, and have a wide open window to specialize once you get bored of general, look into dentistry. It also has the benefit of being covered by insurance so even in a crappy economy you're guaranteed to keep making money, and no matter how many technological advancements may come out in the future you will always be in demand.
It's one of those things that nobody really does because they enjoy working in peoples' mouths all day. It's everything else that makes it awesome. However, as Clever-Iggy said you generally find a lot of unhappy people in the field because it's a very unfulfilling job outside of its perks.