College Question [Need Serious Advice]

[Exalt]

That's not true. My boss is rich as fuck and he isn't stressed at all.

yeah its really not, my job is pretty stressful and im no where near rich

[Nockm]

Probably going over stuff that you know already but if it helps, maybe some of what I have typed relates to you:

It seems to me that you've gone into med school for the wrong reasons - as if you wanted to be a chef just because you like the smell of food. You've got to enjoy the taught content or possibly have a knack for it - you ticked none of the above. Of course you'll end up hating it!

It seems all you wanted was the cherry on the cake: patient-doctor interaction, the feeling of helping; to me I would guess you would have to be at least naturally interested in the workings of the body, how to make things better - maybe so far as to have a particular area of the body that you are interested in. Have you ever had any of that?


Anyway my crappy story:

When it came to choosing a course at uni, I was uninspired and chose Mechanical Engineering just because I was ok at it. I passed the first year but not very well, getting E grades for Thermodynamics was normal then. I just trudged on because that was all I knew. For a project, we had a look at a car engine which I found totally boring and strange yet others could already tell exactly what car it came from just by looking at it.

Luckily for me there was a programming module which I found very absorbing - I had done programming when I was younger, I was good at it and enjoyed it. I literally thought to myself: "If only all my uni modules were to do with programming - that would be SO interesting". It finally hit me when summer break was coming and my personal tutor handed me a booklet with a list of companies I could do work-experience with - I would be just as interested stacking shelves than working with any of them.

I switched my "major" to Computer Science (and university too) - a big step but I was 100% happy about it - because I knew for certain I'd enjoy the course content and that I would be good at it. I ended up being the 2nd best in the whole year (apparently I would have been graded 1st if I didn't piss some people off). I wonder if you feel 100% in that way towards design? Anyway now I am doing programming as a job which does make it like I'm doing a hobby for work, just in a pressured environment.


What I think:

If you stick with med, I'm guessing you'll have a lot less debt but sorta end up being a doctor for the rest of your working life. You'll probably not enjoy being a doctor because that's not really what you want to do at all - your thin reasons for choosing med + your family being extremely pro med tell me that this is not a choice you made from your heart at all.

If you do design, you'll have a ton of debt and be at the mercy of banks for a long time, but you'd be a lot better at your job and enjoy it too. At least in this way, you'll be far more likely to excel in your classes and become good enough in your profession to earn good money. That is... if you are truly passionate about design.


Not really insightful stuff but at times like this I think the more experiences you can read about, (excluding ones like Exalt's :P) the better.

[Zerzera]

maybe so far as to have a particular area of the body that you are interested in. Have you ever had any of that?

We can't all study gynaecology .

[Exalt]

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Not really insightful stuff but at times like this I think the more experiences you can read about, (excluding ones like Exalt's :P) the better.

well iguess i kinda went a little harsh with what I said, but my main point was that you cant go halfway and then say to yourself "maybe the grass is greener over there" type of thing

in everything you do in life you will find things you love about it and find things you hate about it, in the end its still a job. If your job was to lounge around at the beach all day sipping cocktails, eventually you would find things you didnt like about it, or one day you would be like "i dont want to get out of bed to sleep on the beach today" its just the way things go

in the end I would say your better off finishing your med school which you have said is getting paid for by you immediate family? Finish that first, worse come to worse you can go back to school and get another bachelors later. But at least this way youll have a degree backing you up and you can get a decent job to pay for the tuition that you would be spending on getting another bachelors at a decent school.

and the whole 80 hour a week thing, that was to just to prove to you that really your job isnt that hard, you go to class and study and learn. But you dont pull hours that a lot of people do, and your getting everything paid for you, take advantage of it... sometimes sticking through things turn out to be better than changing your mind

[Epinephrine]

Exalt, I'm sorry but medical school IS hard. 40 hours of class a week + studying is norm for most in the first two years. And then in clerkship there's work + call + studying + exams as well. Have you ever worked 105 hours a week + studying? I have... and for 105 of those hours I had to be awake enough to be responsible for people's lives. And keep in mind, unlike the military, no one's making your meals, doing your grocery shopping and no one's doing your laundry.

[Fluffz]

xcuse me, but with 105 hours work and lets say 6 hours sleep (which turns u into a zombie) that leaves 3 hours a day without cleaning and eating or getting to work. thats insane. seriously, im pretty pissed at the lost time after 8 hours of daily work already, that cant be worth it.

also, last time i was at an eye doctor(sp), i was thinking that guy has the most boring work ever. hello, look up, left, down right, thanks, bye. same thing with dentists.

[Epinephrine]

Yes Fluffz, that's why I decided against going into General Surgery, where 105 hours/week is a LIGHT week in 5 years of residency... you regularily hit up to 125+ hours

[Vykromond]

6 hours' sleep turns you into a zombie? First I've heard of it. 6 is great for me, more is counterproductive.

[Material Girl]

If I were you, I would finish med school as a villainous, angry, tyrannical plastic surgeon.

Or do psychiatry?


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[Galleleo]

I need 8 hours of sleep on avg. I can do nights with less, but I always need to catch that up somewhere.

But there are also people we can do with 4 hours of sleep a night. Point I am making, there are people who can do with very little sleep each night and have no problem whatsoever. I however can't, I need my sleep and I like sleeping.

[Facetious]

Yeah, I could certainly go with 6 hours of sleep maybe 2-3 nights in a span of a week or so. If it becomes more frequent than that, I'm just tired and (even more) unfocused all the time.

[Cylor]

"...join the army if you fail..."

[Fit of Rage]

Have you looked into bioengineering? My school is just starting a BE program--it's basically devoted to medicine distribution and artificial body part development (and later implementation). Since you have a background in biology, maybe a masters in BE would be the solution. It's kind of a new field (the last couple decades) so your school may not offer it. Look into it though.

[Zerzera]

In summer (when the weather is good) I can do with 3-4 hours, in winter I need 9-10 hours.