engineering vs medicine vs IT vs legal

[mozart]

which one to you beleive is the better career in terms of career oppotunities, pay check, travel and starting salary.

engineering +1 for me
great travel
starting salary of 55000+ for chemical
great pay after 5 years exp
everything else

[Mao]

it depends on what you enjoy doing...
and these four options you're giving isnt really complete, i'm sure AppleXY or Ahmad will yell out "Actuary" any minute now...

i'm engineering

[Collin Li]

Where is commerce? This one is your best chance to get a good pay check. Starting salaries can be misleading - research about your later salaries (although I am also doing chemical engineering).

[Mao]

which i meant to ask, does teachers get reasonable pay?
public secondary? private secondary? lecturer?

thats a job i believe in, but not necessarily the best careers choice... life and its complications...

[excal]

IT has both good starting salaries ($45k+) and very rapid succession to broader management.

If you get lucky and end up in Project Management, you could be in 6 figures before you even hit 30 (though $80-90k sounds like a more reasonable estimate).

Take a look at salaries on SEEK/CareerOne - one of the two I know run a salary survey within various industries.

[beezy4eva]

which i meant to ask, does teachers get reasonable pay?
public secondary? private secondary? lecturer?

thats a job i believe in, but not necessarily the best careers choice... life and its complications...

judging from how much the teachers complain at our school they probably get sh*t pay

[excal]

Yep, they do.

Lecturers get paid a lot more - but they still need to recover from that PhD hole in their pocket!

[mozart]

teachers get horable pay with pretty good working conitions. it's boring though!

[cara.mel]

If you become a teacher, you're not there for the money. They're very special people and put up with a hell of a lot for us.
Anyway, secondary teachers reach like the max salary possible after ~10 years (unless you decide to go become a principal etc)

[Mao]

If you become a teacher, you're not there for the money. They're very special people and put up with a hell of a lot for us.
Anyway, secondary teachers reach like the max salary possible after ~10 years (unless you decide to go become a principal etc)

nah, principals are nowhere near as fun! you gotta deal with political bullcrap...
if i am to be a teacher i'd even stay away from coordinator... avoid decision making fullstop, it takes away the spirit of teaching...

[AppleXY]

ACTUARY!!!!!!!!

LOLLERS

they're srsly ftw 

[mozart]

our legal teacher, really good guy btw, keeps telling us about how the teachers toilets in the staff room keep loosing toilet papers, like new ones, and they sey that the staff have caught teachers stealing them! kind of low!

[Mao]

ACTUARY!!!!!!!!

lol what did i say!!

our legal teacher, really good guy btw, keeps telling us about how the teachers toilets in the staff room keep loosing toilet papers, like new ones, and they sey that the staff have caught teachers stealing them! kind of low!

xD that gotta be so relevant to having a teaching career!

[BA22]

Med is an expensive career and the best money is in private practice. Personal indemnity insurance also comprises a large portion of most salary packages. Med is not always as well paying a people would expect

[excal]

Med is an expensive career and the best money is in private practice. Personal indemnity insurance also comprises a large portion of most salary packages. Med is not always as well paying a people would expect

Very true....except if you land yourself a really good specialty

Commerical law, imho, is a licence to print money.