I am a college student in need of some life turning career advice please help.?

Hi i am currently in college and i wanted to do a major in medical cause i want to make a lot of money cause i have to support my family. But the thing is I've heard that doctors hardly have a private life and that even residents work 8-12 hours per day. Can someone tell me how much do they work. Also if there is any other career in which you can make a lot of money as well as have time for your family. I am a college student in need of some life turning career advice please help.?
Working 8 hours a day is the normal amount of time for almost everyone.





Realize that residency is only a year or two, so even if you work long hours, it's not forever. Also, some hospitals are doing away with the crazy hours, because it makes the doctor less accurate, which can harm the patient. So you can research which hospitals do that and apply to one of those for your residency.





Doctors do need to be on call some of the time, but there are specialties where the hours are pretty regular. Dermatologists, for example, rarely need to rush to an emergency, yet they can earn big money. You can also get a job in business where your MD will bring big bucks, but it'd be a 9 - 5 job. For example, pharmaceutical, medical device, medical software and health insurance companies all need a doctor or two.





Most big money careers require a big time commitment. Law, stockbrokering, business executive - all can require working long hours.





Choose something you will like doing every day. Does it have to pay top dollar? What about a job that pays a middle-class income, like nursing, radiology tech, etc? The hours are more regular. What about hospital administrator? Again, there may be times when you work extra, but it shouldn't be the norm.I am a college student in need of some life turning career advice please help.?
We all want to make a lot of money. However, you do understand that you will NOT make a lot of money until you have completed your residency, in perhaps 10 years from now. Until then, you will be dirt poor and will be working long hours, specially when you are an intern. You will have no personal life to speak of until your residency is over and even then, you will be on call until you retire.





Do not go into medicine to make a lot of money. That is the wrong motivation. The big money only comes because of the horrifically long hours. Only go into medicine because you have an insanely intense desire to help people.





If you want to make big money and a lot sooner, go into law instead. People consider lawyers wanting to make a lot of money as a normal thing. Of get an MBA. And with both of these, when you leave work at the end of the day you are almost never on call and generally you have a far more sane work load.