A sibling of mine is a very highly paid medical specialist. She studied, worked and studied more doing exams into her early thirties. Combined with having to tr

A sibling of mine is a very highly paid medical specialist. She studied, worked and studied more doing exams into her early thirties. Combined with having to travel a lot to get experience meant she wasn't able to settle till her mid thirties. Prior to that she earned good money but worked insane hours not including study time. I know because I stayed with her sometimes. I work in a pretty stressful job but I couldn't handle the stress her job entails on a daily basis where she sees extremely ill people in theatre and whose lives are literally in her hands both there and later in the ICU. She's well into her fifties now but still one week a month had to be available to work in the middle of the night if called on a rota. She earns a good multiple of what I do but I think she earns every penny.