I'm a financial planner and I've told a retired engineer (early 60s) that with his 800k nest egg he would never have to worry about money again and I've told a doctor (early 60s) that his 3.3 million wouldn't last 20 years and more likely closer to only 15.

Doctors are running "Dow Jones" scared.

Check out the abandonded house I bought & rehabbed on my website, it came out killer and netted me a doctors salary!

Be they good teachers, great Doctors, Vets, hard-working scientists, engineers, realtors, lenders, store owners, single Moms/Dads, if their lives somehow improved theirs AND others', I listen carefully to all they have to say

Doctors are a case in point.

Nothing else.When I'm waiting for doctor's appointments-dentists, in line for other mundane consumer chores, I put stuff on index cards and study them. like sales objection handlers, marketing ideas, and the like.Or I talk into a portable digital tape recorder.Or I practice to complete and utter strangers my "elevator speech."

Beth Brooke, global vice chair at Ernst & Young LLP, WSJ, Sept 30, 2008 "Blaming fair-value accounting for the credit crisis is a lot like going to a doctor for a diagnosis and then blaming him for telling you that you are sick."

I recently met a doctor who is interested in "getting into real estate".

If you don't get your properties rented at the beginning of a semester or school year, you may end up holding vacant properties for many months (unless you seriously lower the rent, or take less desirable tenants).In my area, college rentals that cash flow are hard to find (all the sellers are hoping some doctor-daddy will buy their overpriced property for some spoiled princess).It can be a good business (especially with parental guarentees), but you've really really got to know your market.

If you want to be a doctor, nurse or lawyer though, you should finish.If you know you will be doing real estate I would find a great mentor and work for free!