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Just a quibble, but don’t psychiatrists make bank?
It's usually the lowest paid medical speciality in my country. Vying with general practice. Again, this is region-specific, but given that the program here is usually a couple years longer than GP one (in reality, still longer as required placements/experience don't necessarily match up with jobs at hand, e.g. fifty hour intensive talk therapy sessions and write-up of the same, the aforementioned college exam failure rate being on some level designed to maintain a cheap labour force, and requirement for a further postgraduate master's degree, which is unusual here but not unprecedented (years ago I heard 50 percent of opthamologists have PhDs. What a waste of time and potential.
My boyfriend lives in a privatised "council flat" which means he has 10 years of university education to live next door to literal meth addict single mothers who haven't yet been moved out from $800,000 USD shitholes into still cheaper outskirting areas. He does choose low-paying work he believes in (prisons, youth reform stuff) but his $110K/annum wouldn't be lower than thirtieth percentile I don't think. It seems unjust to me but he is genuinely unbothered to wake up to a new crack pipe on his lawn from time to time ... Anyway I'm twelve days away from my inheritance and I plan on surprising him with the news that I was serious in saying what's mine is yours and giving him the option to retire or do something new. I get insane with anger when I hear about the constant bullshit ("Where's your pronoun badge?) and abuse (propinquity to the scum of the earth) he has to deal with so I just would be happiest paying for him to find a nicer house and improve his cooking and gardening but that conversation will inevitably come across as controlling or condescending. Currently I planning to help him study for one more shot early next year and drawing up a guide for him of pitfalls (all social, he's impeccable as a doctor) and if he fails, fuck it, let worse people do it.
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