My wife had $210k in debt from medical school. It's basically impossible to pay it off durning residency, so it just balloons. All in, at the end of my wife's

My wife had $210k in debt from medical school. It's basically impossible to pay it off durning residency, so it just balloons. All in, at the end of my wife's training, we would have been $1M ahead if she had simply worked a normal career. That's huge in your 20's and 30's when your trying to establish a house/family/etc.