Sanding the perimeter of a room is extremely back aching.

Food, Medicine, 1 Roof over your head..

We try to mend it with either stitches, medicine, or bandages, in an attempt to make it heal so it'll go away.  

IT, engineering, medicine) are carrying up the ROI to that high because those degrees may have an ROI of 60-70-80% or higher.

It is a drug.It has many medicinal values, but to each their own. 

My wife was skeptical until we started getting ACH payments every month.

I'm not convinced that anyone getting a degree outside of a professional field (medicine, law, etc.) are any more hireable than someone with drive.

Unless you plan to get a degree in medicine, law, engineering or some other "professional" degree it's my opinion that college is as much, if not more, about the experience then the actual physical degree.

Sure, they are higher than 2011 when capital is as achingly tight.

Many in the medical field though are frustrated with pay systems and healthcare reimbursements.. its not all wine and roses :)  but the folks I know in medicine like you say do quite well and are intelligent enough to invest wisely.