So you know how they say the average college student changes their major at least once? Well I don't really feel the desire to change my major, I just feel like I need some serious backup plans. I don't really know why I want to go to medical school. I'm not sure if its because I think its what I really want to do, or if that is what my mother is supporting. When I told her I wanted to go into aeronautics when I was in high school, she wasn't really happy about that. I think that I still want to do science, and possibly still do something medical, but I'm just not sure if the General Practitioner thing is for me. I like the idea of helping people feel better, but I feel like I need to be doing something 'cooler'.
So, I'm just evaluating my options, but I think the person that I really need to talk to is my dad. My mother would not understand what I'm saying and where I'm coming from, and she would be very disappointed. But i'm not even saying that I'm completely ruling medical school out. I just need some alternative plans in case that doesn't work. But I think my dad will have a better viewpoint because he is less biased, and he also probably never intended to do what he is doing now. He is smart enough to have gone to medical school, and also enough to go be a professor. However, he has a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA), and he was an accountant before he got more experience in managing a contracting company. So, I'll just ask for his opinion before turning to my hot tempered mother. =]
As far as people's common misconceptions about doctors and medical schools, I don't really listen to them because most of them have no idea what it takes and requires. Most people believe that doctors have no lives, hardly ever get married or date, and are in school or working forever. There are some doctors that stay on call, and work long hours. Most of them are trauma surgeons, or ER doctors, the rest of them are OB/GYNs. General Practice doctors have office hours, and usually work in clinics. Some work in hospitals. They spend the rest of their time doing what they desire.
I come from a family with several doctors in them, and all of them are happily married and had their share of love life, and clubbing days. Life is simply what you make out of it.
I feel like this is a vvery ininteresting blog because its talking about me, and I don't really like to talk about things that bother me. So this one really wasn't written to entertain anyone, it was just written out of spontaneous thought.
But I just think that it's weird how two people I know both changed their minds about being doctors, and I was even currently in the consideration of keeping or not keeping the medical school goal. One of my previous blogs actually brought up the issue.
But if all goes well, I'll be happy, and making a plentiful, yet not ridiculous salary. I just want to be well off. I will definitely finish more than a bachelor's degree, no doubt, but I just don't know which doctorate or master's I will be completing. I'm still keeping my aeronautics interests in mind. Maybe I'll be flying planes or managing air traffic control.
MaybeI'll be a surgeon. Maybe I'll be a gynecologist. Maybe I'll be a dentist. Maybe I'll do something else. Its all a matter of fate.
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