What's the highest-paying career for someone who is actually willing to go all-in?
I'm an 18-year-old girl from India, turning 19 this year. I completed my Class 12 and have been preparing for NEET for the past 2 years.
Here's the honest truth — I am not genuinely passionate about becoming a doctor. I would do MBBS if I get a seat, but it's not my dream. My real goal in life is to be financially free by 30, build real wealth, and live life on my own terms after that.
Right now I'm stuck between two options:
- BDS (Dentistry)
I'm not interested in just "being a dentist." My plan is to treat it as a business — open my own clinic, scale it, make it work. But everyone online says dentistry is oversaturated and there's no scope. I don't fully understand why people say this when the business angle is still very much there.
- BPT (Physiotherapy)
My family says this field has great scope right now. But I'm not sure if it aligns with my financial goals.
Here's what I want people to understand — I don't care much about which degree I choose. Whatever undergraduate program I'm in, I'm going to spend those 5 years working hard in parallel, trying to build income streams and learn everything I can about making money. By the time I graduate, I want to be doing my own thing, not working under someone.
So my question is — between BDS and BPT (or anything else), which field gives a genuinely ambitious person the best platform to build a business and reach financial independence? Not asking what the average person earns. Asking what's possible if you actually go all in.