Some careers cost of time and money to take. But do not expect a large check.

NEW YORK (CNN / Money) – Most of us work hard in order to earn a living. And if we are lucky, we are well compensated pressure.

But there are places you should take if you love the work, because the investments that you are doing to employment and the hours you keep are not necessarily connected with what you win.

Not that all careers in this category are necessarily poorly paid, at least not by national standards.

May, but they require much time and money in the schools and universities, offers the working conditions that can not excuse the passion, and there is such a long run for the May roses, you lose work and toddlers food, a salary that the College of winning peers were a decade earlier.

These are just three of those bodies.
Architects

For every Philip Johnson or Frank Lloyd Wright in a generation of architects, there are countless others who are different from every day without fanfare at the buildings where we work, live and shop.

Architects last May to seven years and the completion of the first stage of mastery of study or up to three and a half years, Master, if it in any other region in the course of the College. To demonstrate that the test for admission, they must be three years trainees may work for architects.

Architects with a control could be based on the labor market and between $ 50000 $ 80000 in a student dormitory of a debt. But as in the first year of the trainees, they could not win the $ 34000, according to the nationwide survey of the 2005 report on the remuneration of the American Institute of Architects. During this time, a few steps to scale the high Architects win an average of $ 68,900.
Leader

There is a reason, they say, if you do not endure the heat from the kitchen. Restaurant kitchens are usually not air-conditioning when the temperatures can top 100 degrees Celsius in summer, says Stephan Hengst, spokesman of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).

Like most state and Restaurant are not on the right path to the next Jean-Georges Vongerichten or Wolfgang Puck, they can expect much more income.

The lower secondary school graduates, the culinary past two to four years and tens of thousands of dollars to receive her diploma, a low employment rate in the kitchen on DSL to more than $ 32,000 soon after acquiring diploma (and whether they are from the experience prior to cooking).

The date on which they work under their boss, after perhaps three or four years, they can roughly 55,000 U.S. dollars, said stallion.

The benefits are more could be included if they are working to a string, as a small restaurant, independently owned and operated.

And the clock to connect to their feet an average of around 12 hours a day, Hengst said, although 80 – 100 hours per week is not uncommon for some.

If you behind the scenes at a restaurant, fame is not supplied by the customer directly, but indirectly through their plates took place: the emptiness, so much the better.
The university scientific research

A career with a ratios, which disproportionately, to pay for the training, the university research.

At the doctoral program and memory are needed to employment, which can be six to eight years. (See correction.) Add to several years in the period after career in the enjoyment of the coveted road to the filling of posts.

During the post-doctoral phase, you are likely to teach the leadership of a laboratory with the experiences that allow you to check every hour, to publish, find and write grants – for a salary of no more than $ May 43000th

The length of working life, post-doctoral has evolved over the last 10 years, said Phil Gardner, director of the search for a job Collegiate Institute at the State University of Michigan. “There is always more to get there. You can not to start a family. It is really difficult.”

And he has even more difficult by the fact that in many areas, there are not many ways of filling posts that the candidate.

So for those who earn their MBA in two years and six hooks number of jobs shortly after acquiring the diploma, May your hard work, but perhaps not quite as strong as you think about it.