SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

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OT: Metal... That's the same reason I became a Network/Security Engineer. (Well also because I like it and wanted to do C.S. in college.) I get paid 6 figures as well with a LOL B.S. Degree in Neurobiology and Physiology. (My dad and mom wanted everyone in the family to be a doctor.) I decided I didn't want to go to school for another 4 more years and then another 3-7+ years in residency earning piddly with huge loans. My sister who is a pediatrician said that she can't go back to the Wash D.C. area. On average Pediatricians only earn $100K in that area since there's too many. So she said moving to Mid-West or to the South she can get about $150K-$175K. But I think after she comes back from her tour in Iraq she's going to move to the Pacific NW where I just recently moved.

Now if you're a cardiologist like my little sister is thinking of doing that's typically $300-400k/year or a nephrologist (kidney) about - $250K-300k. Surgeons obviously more depending on whether it's General Surgery or a sub-speciality. It's like our field the more specialized you are the more you make vs. just being a general network admin.

I still can't believe they want her to do ER/Trauma for adults when she only had a 3 month shift/class in residency 4 years ago on it. The army said they will give her a 3 month crash course on ER Medicine (Even though when you specialize in Internal Med/ER medicine it requires a 3 year residency program.) She said she knows less than a combat or trauma medic in terms of stabilizing an adult patient.