"The academic standards are getting higher and higher," says Jane Morgan Bost, associate director of the University of Texas Counseling and Mental Health Center. "the financial stress is very high."

LESS IS MORE “Before proposing to offer a new service, don’t think twice — think three times, ” writes Deena Katz, an associate professor at Texas Tech, in Financial Planning .

We often associate hefty salaries with corner offices, scalpels and law degrees - but it turns out you can pull in a pretty penny working outside the financial, medical or legal fields.