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Originally Posted by dr?
I have always been torn between medicine and psychology. I am a student of Psychology but couldn't not stop thinking I had made a mistake choosing psych, and I thought about medicine all of the time.
Now i'm back to square 1...I don't know which route to choose because how do I know if medicine is for me? I mean, the idea of dissecting a cadaver disturbs & scares me a little, is that a bad sign?
I think I might just be panicking... 
How did you know it was for you? |
I looked at what I thought the job requirements were and compared them with the perception I had of my strengths and weaknesses.
I used status, money and stability as adjunctive info to justify the career choice.
I thought when I read your post, that you should choose the profession where the work itself is what seems the most enjoyable. But there are two downsides to this:
1. You might like playing chess, but still not be happy cos you suck at chess. Substitute chess with any other skill in any other job. This is the competition perspective.
2. You might both be good at and like what you are doing (then you are better off than a great deal of the population, you priviledged mother ****er), but work itself proves to have practical, cynical downsides to it. Look up hello laziness on wikipedia for an example.
You aren't rid of the "choose your profession" problem when you enter medicine, either. You have to decide upon career choice, like speciality, research/no research, hospital/general practice, etc. I spent the latter half of my study trying to figure this out, before I arrived at a solution.
I have all the arguments all the way down to fundamental needs pinned down on notes for looking into, whenever I question my decisions at a later stage. If you aren't honest with yourself, you can at least look into your self-deceptive excuses, and what needs you were trying to meet by your reasoning. As a psychologist, that would probably not be too much of a disadvantage.
