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was speaking to some savvy investor friends of mine who started throwing around statistics. turns out that since microsoft went public in 1987, the stock has split 2 for 1, 9 times. so one share in microsoft bought back then is worth 256 of todays shares. and $100,000 invested in microsoft back then is worth a whopping 25 million today. Thats rite 25 million.
For the average medical student here, your parents probably spent 100,000 on going to grad school themselves or on your food, clothing and education bills...Or perhaps on that home extension, club house and swimming pool in your backyard. Most of you were around 10 years old around 1986.
So, instead of spending 1000s on good primary schools, in order that you may get into a good high school, in order that you may impress the admissions committee at a top 20 college, in order that you may throw many 100,000s more into ivy league medical schools, so that you may graduate successfully to enter into a plum orthopaedic or radiology residnecy spot (all btw. in addition to working your precious derrieres off while your goof off cream puff arts degree students were smoking dope in their dorm rooms and getting tender with college girls), your parents decided to buy microsoft stock for you, you too could have been goofing off today as opposed to worrying about board scores, LORs and kissing some loser lifeless attendings ass just because he did it when he was there and so should you now..And the sad fact is that for you to make 25 million as a clinician will take 5 lifetimes (assuming the average take home pay of a physician is 200,000). And honestly how much satisfaction can there be in taking out gall bladders or looking at xrays or fixing electolyte disturbances.
Bah! Lets devote our energies to finding the next microsoft and forget about ass kissing and getting good scores on standardised Multiple choice tests that do little but waste time.
For the average medical student here, your parents probably spent 100,000 on going to grad school themselves or on your food, clothing and education bills...Or perhaps on that home extension, club house and swimming pool in your backyard. Most of you were around 10 years old around 1986.
So, instead of spending 1000s on good primary schools, in order that you may get into a good high school, in order that you may impress the admissions committee at a top 20 college, in order that you may throw many 100,000s more into ivy league medical schools, so that you may graduate successfully to enter into a plum orthopaedic or radiology residnecy spot (all btw. in addition to working your precious derrieres off while your goof off cream puff arts degree students were smoking dope in their dorm rooms and getting tender with college girls), your parents decided to buy microsoft stock for you, you too could have been goofing off today as opposed to worrying about board scores, LORs and kissing some loser lifeless attendings ass just because he did it when he was there and so should you now..And the sad fact is that for you to make 25 million as a clinician will take 5 lifetimes (assuming the average take home pay of a physician is 200,000). And honestly how much satisfaction can there be in taking out gall bladders or looking at xrays or fixing electolyte disturbances.
Bah! Lets devote our energies to finding the next microsoft and forget about ass kissing and getting good scores on standardised Multiple choice tests that do little but waste time.
