IF you truly "enjoy" the work, then a perceived volatility of a starting salary that is 3 YEARS AWAY from you even being qualified to earn it should NOT influence your decision on whether or NOT to start anesthesia school.
Waiting to start school based on what you think your future starting salary may or may not be in relation to today is ridiculous.
If you were legitimately serious about wanting to be an anesthetist, you would be busting your butt to get into school as soon as humanly possible.
To even consider the idea of working another job, skipping years when you could be practicing anesthesia, to wait for starting salaries to rise to a level that you deem worthy to start school is such a monumental fail.
There are other parts of your argument that are equally as faulty. Even if the pay decreases, there will still be plenty of people applying to AA school. And the < 150 graduates that the 5 AA schools produce annually are not enough to affect the supply and demand of an ENTIRE market.
I never read about people on this message board saying that they want to go into anesthesia because they like airway management, pharmacology, physiology or managing a resuscitation. It's never about wanting to keep a patient alive while the surgeon is trying to kill them. It's always about these fictional, unsubstantiated fantasies about what a starting salary is going to be.
What a joke.
The money should not be one's primary motive to get into anesthesia. Sure, it's a nice perk, but that is all it is: a perk.
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