What is a good paying job in the engineering field?

What is a good paying job in the medical field?

• I want a job in the medical field. I don't want to be a nurse though. i can't work with needles. I want a REALLY good paying job though. So, a good paying job in the medical ...show more

• Answer:

  Go for optometry (eye doctor). It was rated in the top 30 careers for 2008 and 2009, along with many other years. It provides the fantastic opportunity to start your own business and set your own rules and boundaries. It also provides an excellent balance between work and family. Most optometrist (except those in the state of Oklahoma) don't perform surgery, but they diagnose eye diseases, fit people for contacts and glasses, and do all the pre and post lasik procedures. You won't be raking in the money like brain surgoens will. but an average optometrist will make anything between $100,000 and $200,000 dollars. and as soon as they allow more practicing optometrist to perform lasik, you can millions of dollars a year...or if you just can't wait, i suggest you move to Oklahoma and you will be able to laser eye surgery there and can make up to 10 million a year if that is what you decide to specialize in...you can always take the other road to ophthalmology, which is strictly just eye surgery...but it requires far more school...i think five more years longer than it takes to become an optometrist...i hope this helps...all i have to say is that i know what i want to be when i grow up: an optometrist...good luck!