Please help..career choice! The clock is ticking, my mom is pressuring me, everyone is asking me what i'm going to do and the truth is I DON'T KNOW!:eek: :( I think i want to do something medical but i am not completely sure. I know i want to make a lot of money, not be rich but be well off cause i do like to spend money, i like to shop, i want to have a big house and like 3-5 kids if possible. I'm going to my 3rd yr of college, right now im in liberal arts and have to choose a major soon! Some of the choices i have thought of before are: RN nurse- my mom is an RN and wants me to be one, OB-GYN, Dermatologist, Mid-wife. Can someone help please, give me ideas? If anyone has a career in any of these or know any info, salary info, etc that would help a lot! Right now i am taking child development and it is very interesting also...i am just confused, don't know BLEH!:rolleyes: |
I know just how you feel. I switched my major five times. I have a degree in management because that's what my dad does & it came easy to me. I'm not sure I ever want to be a manager. Right now I work in data entry/engineering. I know this isn't what I love to do, but I still have no idea what I would love to do either. Try & pick the one you find the most interesting or are the most passionate about. Do research on each of the careers & see if there is anything that really turns you off. That's really the only advice I can give. I always wanted to be a vet, so I worked at a vet office when I was 15. I was helping with a declaw surgery & almost passed out cold & decided it wasn't for me. |
Girl..I feel you..I graduated last May and I STILL dont know what I want to do! If you are thinking about being an RN, what about being a nurse practitioner? A family friend of mine if an RN, but she is trying to be a nurse practitioner. She says the pay and hours are better.. |
I feel your pain also... I have switched from teaching to broadcast journalism to law to nursing to advertising and now to I DON"T KNOW....lol... |
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I am in the medical field and my suggestion is if you are going to go to school major in neurology. It covers everything. If you wanted to change majors you could and when you were ready to slow down in life and your kids were grown you could just do family practice. Good luck to you ! Quote:
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I have been down this road as well!!! I was reading your post, and I felt I was reading about myself a few yrs ago!! Here's what I know... To be a nurse practitioner, you have to go get your bachelor's in nursing and become a licensed RN. Then you have to work in the field for a couple of years and then go back to school and get into a nurse practitioner program...This will last about 2 yrs depending on which school you go to. Or you could do Nurse anesthetist. They make roughly $120,000 per year, but I'm sure this number is much higher in a place like New York. For this, you have to get your bachelor's in nursing and licensed as RN. Then you work in the field for a year or two, then go back for training as a nurse anesthetist for 2-3 yrs. You could also go to PA school to become a physician's assistant. To do this, you would get your bachelor's degree in whatever you want and make sure to take the prerequisites for PA school...They like for you to have a couple of years working in the medical field doing whatever...medical assistant, EMT, etc. After your bachelor's you would go to PA school for approximately two years, and you're done! PAs are taught in a medical model meaning that they are taught to diagnose and treat instead of the nursing model like NPs... http://www.aapa.org/geninfo1.html You can go online to www.salary.com to get a good estimate of how much each of the different jobs earn. As far as becoming a doctor is concerned, send me a pm and I'll give you a website that I like to visit. I have decided to become a physician, but I still have a ways to go. To become a doctor, as I'm sure you know, you need your bachelor's degree in anything, and need very high grades in prereq's. It is also important to get exposure to the medical field through volunteering at a hospital or even working at one if you can. MCAT needs to be taken the spring the year before you apply to medical school. In order to do well on it, you should have taken 1 yr of biology with labs, 1 yr of general chemistry with labs, 1 yr of organic chemistry with labs, 1 yr of physics with labs, 1 yr of calculus with labs, and some schools require statistics. Also, ExamKrackers is a good book to use to prepare for it. If you are accepted to medical school, the first two years are typically in class/lab, and the next two years are rotations in different fields of medicine. At the beginning of the 4th year, I believe, you have to do the residency matching program...You have to make a list of where you want to do your residency and in which field. That school/hospital has to pick you as well...If not, then you don't match. I don't know how to explain it intelligently, so you can read more about it on aamc.org or http://www.nrmp.org/ So, basically, you are not guaranteed to get in the program that you want...Dermatology amongst a few others are the toughest to get into, and you need high scores on USMLE and rotations. |
I have no idea how much schooling is involved, but Radiologists and Anesthesiologists make TONS of money:D Good luck to you:) |
Good Luck with picking a career girl! I went to college full time for 3 years and switched majors 3 times until I just dropped out bc I had NO clue what I wanted to do for the rest of my life at 21 years old. I am now back in college at 31 and know what Im going to do! It was not a easy decision though! Good Luck to you sweetie! |
Boy, it's so hard to make a decision like that. My advice would be to find something you like doing and don't worry about the money. While it seems tempting to just go for the highest paying job, if you don't enjoy what your doing it doesn't matter how much you make, it's never enough. If you truly like what you do, you will be amazed by the opportunities that open up to you. |
At 25, 26 in a few days I am just starting to settle into a career. I wanted to be a Musician but ended up getting my degree in Engineering. I was always good at computers so always worked repairing computers to get by. Well I got my dream job just recently as a Network Admin at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA. Best of both worlds and pays well plus I can attend for free!!! Alot of the times planning won't help, its just being at the right place at the right time. |
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I have been an RN forever and I highly recommend it; you can find a good job no matter where you go for one thing. And it's a great starting point; in your training you'll see all different sorts of nursing and you can decide what interests you most and start there. If you decide at some point that it's boring or you don't like it, you can change to another type of nursing. There's SO MANY things you can do with it, even if you only use it as a background. I had my nursing license and worked for probably about 5 or 6 yrs and then got my esthetician license (skin care/ makeup)....it was so easy for me to get thru that with my medical background and people always respect you more. Then I went on to get my personal trainer's certifications and work as a personal trainer. It's just amazing how much it will help you and will take you further than you can even imagine. Even if you want to stay in the medical field per se, you have to have your RN to become a nurse anesthetist, or midwife or clinical specialist. Plus, if you find that you want to go to medical school (which was the real reason I became an RN first, but then I liked being a nurse so much...), you may be able to qualify for grants or scholarships thru your workplace and it will be so much easier for you too, having worked in the field. On the other hand; when I got my esthetician license, it was before the big onslaught of dayspas and such and there's so many spas, dayspas, skin care clinics etc, who employ estheticians these days. I actually got a job at a dermatologist's office doing facial treatments (part of it was b/c I had my nursing license too though). Anyway, it's not that much training (it's 600 hours of class time and then you have your practical stuff you have to get in) and is always something you would be able to do. On the other hand.... a good friend always told me :do what you love and the money will follow. I think that's the best advice! |
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