Big Jobs That Pay Badly

(From CNN/Money -- By Jeanne Sahadi)

Most of us work hard for a living. And if we're lucky, we're well compensated for the effort.

But there are some jobs you should take only if you really love the work because the investment you make to get the job and the hours you keep aren't necessarily commensurate with what you earn.
[Ahem.]

Not that all careers in this category are necessarily low-paying, at least not by national standards.

But they may require a great deal of time and money in graduate education, offer working conditions that only passion can excuse, and there may be such a long run for the roses that you forfeit prime working and child-bearing years just to achieve a salary that college peers were earning a decade earlier.
[Hmmm. Sounds familiar.]

Here are just three of those jobs.

Big Jobs That Pay Badly