Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices

This is a great story about the difference between those who look for the routes to extraordinary wealth in their professions and those who just follow the map. You can't acheive anything extraordinary by doing the ordinary.

The opportunity to become abundantly rich is a recent phenomenon not only in medicine, but in a growing number of other professions and occupations. In each case, the great majority still earn fairly uniform six-figure incomes, usually less than $400,000 a year, government data show. But starting in the 1990s, a significant number began to earn much more, creating a two-tier income stratum within such occupations.

Link: Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices - New York Times