My mother has been talking to me a lot lately about choosing a vocation. She says that I shouldn’t just wait for a man to come along and support me, but that I should choose a career that I could actually support myself with if I needed to. She makes a lot of sense, I guess. She also says that now is the time to choose a job field that I would really enjoy working in. The dental assistant salary ranges that she told me about because that is what she does, are good, especially at the upper end. I might just follow in her footsteps.