Top 100 Jobs: Where does yours rank?

[statman]

#14.

Funny that pharmacist isn't on the list (unless I missed it). In past years it has been near the top. Growth prospects must be down...

[San Juan Sun]

#75 overall

#2 high pay

[Babs]

I don't have a job, but Flash comes in at #1.

[CardiacCoug]

How the hell could it possibly better to be a Physician Assistant than a Physician?

Is it better to be a paralegal than a lawyer? Better to be the Executive Assistant than the CEO?

In whose world?

[Indy Coug]

How the hell could it possibly better to be a Physician Assistant than a Physician?

Is it better to be a paralegal than a lawyer? Better to be the Executive Assistant than the CEO?

In whose world?

For people who want to spend 10 fewer years in school/indentured servitude and rack up $250K-$500K less in debt.

[Babs]

How the hell could it possibly better to be a Physician Assistant than a Physician?

Is it better to be a paralegal than a lawyer? Better to be the Executive Assistant than the CEO?

In whose world?

It's because the "how many jobs are projected to be available" factor was weighed so heavily. The quality-of-life factor probably contributed to that seemingly counterintuitive result, too.

[CardiacCoug]

For people who want to spend 10 fewer years in school/indentured servitude and rack up $250K-$500K less in debt.

Even if you're at the high end of debt (the average at my school when I finished was only about 65K), you make up that difference in ~5 years versus being a PA. PA students have debt too.

Good to know that it's better to be an actuary's assistant than an actuary. I mean, why would you want to to go through all those years of school to be fully trained in your field when you could just be the assistant to that fully-trained person?

Just from a standpoint of career satisfaction, it doesn't seem like it would be great to be a physician assistant who always has to check with the actual physician before making any important decision. It would be like being a resident forever, and that really sucked.

[ERCougar]

How the hell could it possibly better to be a Physician Assistant than a Physician?

Is it better to be a paralegal than a lawyer? Better to be the Executive Assistant than the CEO?

In whose world?

I have to say, i don't get the love here either. I advise a lot of pre med students who ask me about this all the time and i almost always steer them towards med school. The only cases where i don't are the ones who seem really into having kids more than a career. Physicians make more money and have much more intellectually stimulating jobs. Being a PA is like signing up to do resident scut work for the rest of your life. And PA school isn't any easier to get into anymore (at least by percent admission rates).

[Babs]

Even if you're at the high end of debt (the average at my school when I finished was only about 65K), you make up that difference in ~5 years versus being a PA. PA students have debt too.

Good to know that it's better to be an actuary's assistant than an actuary. I mean, why would you want to to go through all those years of school to be fully trained in your field when you could just be the assistant to that fully-trained person?

Just from a standpoint of career satisfaction, it doesn't seem like it would be great to be a physician assistant who always has to check with the actual physician before making any important decision. It would be like being a resident forever, and that really sucked.

I have to say, i don't get the love here either. I advise a lot of pre med students who ask me about this all the time and i almost always steer them towards med school. The only cases where i don't are the ones who seem really into having kids more than a career. Physicians make more money and have much more intellectually stimulating jobs. Being a PA is like signing up to do resident scut work for the rest of your life. And PA school isn't any easier to get into anymore (at least by percent admission rates).

You guys are missing the whole point of the rankings.

[Indy Coug]

Good to know that it's better to be an actuary's assistant than an actuary.

An actuary's assistant is the CFO.

[Babs]

An actuary's assistant is the CFO.

It's apparently not subtlety.

[ERCougar]

You guys are missing the whole point of the rankings.

Which is?

It's interesing that we both have the same impression of a PAs job--being a resident for the rest of your life
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[CardiacCoug]

I have to say, i don't get the love here either. I advise a lot of pre med students who ask me about this all the time and i almost always steer them towards med school. The only cases where i don't are the ones who seem really into having kids more than a career. Physicians make more money and have much more intellectually stimulating jobs. Being a PA is like signing up to do resident scut work for the rest of your life. And PA school isn't any easier to get into anymore (at least by percent admission rates).

Right -- to make a physician assistant job equal to a physician, you would have to pay the physician assistant MORE than the physician.

If I could hypothetically make about $200K more as a PA than as a physician, I would maybe start to consider working as a PA.

[Babs]

Which is?

It's interesing that we both have the same impression of a PAs job--being a resident for the rest of your life.

http://cougaruteforum.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=36

They're ranking careers. It does no good to choose a career where there are no job prospects.

[ERCougar]

http://cougaruteforum.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=36

They're ranking careers. It does no good to choose a career where there are no job prospects.

With an aging population and a huge projected shortage (at least in my field ), i still don't get it.