| Mar 22 |
Medical Uncertainties“Ten years? Thats alot..” Thats how the conversation with my parents started out a few nights ago, as I declared my final college choice and ‘career path’ to them, and yes it was medicine and yep so far it is to become a surgeon (69.8424% sure), which does take, I’m estimating a little over 10 years. I remember when I was around 7 or 8 year old I always told everyone I would be a doctor similar to what I see a lot of little kids doing right now, and like most parents mine would always agree with my statement. Well things began to change, around the age of 12 I met my cousin, a computer fanatic. He did everything from program to hack and soon enough he became a kind of role model to me. And since the day I met him to now I have expanded my knowledge in design, coding, and IT in general. From designing whole stationary systems for companies to coding simple scripts it all became part of my life, but what most people didn’t know was my inside fascination for a career in medicine. The fact that I can help people, change lives, and at the same time have an intense, exciting job always intrigued me. Also another part little issue I have is that I always want to learn more about every field I can. Personally I think (no offense to any computer science majors) that programming, SEO, business management, design, etc etc can be self taught to a certain extent, much like my cousin did, and careers in medicine I believe can certainly NOT be self taught. Anyway getting a bit off topic. The conversation with my parents a few nights ago was much different from many others we have had in the forgotten past. This time they wanted to make sure I was ready for the long hours, and years it would take to accomplish my goal. Another issue was how it would be financed, for which I have my own plans. This summer I plan to shadow a few surgeons and find out how their lifestyle is like. Ah this was a pretty random post, but yea, just wanted to say I’ve finalized Medicine as my career Leave a Reply |
