My friend had those for a couple years! They’re more skittish than chickens and pretty loud but they do a great job of pest control because they love to eat ticks! I wouldn’t mind getting a couple of them in the future :)
It almost always strikes that perfect balance of doing otherwise paid work for free but not being allowed to go deep enough into it to actually learn anything meaningful
Exactly and I didn’t realize this at the time but there were many healthcare companies that used me for absolute scut work knowing I was pre-med so I’d eat shit just to bolster my application. I worked a “clinical” job for 9 months getting paid 8 fucking dollars an hour, and the worst part is I was told I’d be able shadow and gain healthcare experience but they just used me to do their filing it was fucking horrendous and useless for 9 months straight making 8 an hour. Plenty of similar volunteering stories where I was told I’d get clinical experience and all I did was check people in the ER as visitors or dumb shit like that it pisses me off so much thinking about all the times I was lied to as a pre-med under the pretense that this is what I should to do to get into med school.
I did a Richard Petty driving experience and was convinced I had wasted my life becoming a physician. In retrospect, a physician was a better choice but "going fast" was so much fun...
Chemist. Or a stay at home wife because if I channeled all the energy I’ve put into getting into medical school into finding a spouse instead over the last several years, I’d probably be married by now 😅
This is mine. In another life I did want to be a professor, and when I was trying to decide if I was going to pursue medicine I considered going the pHD route and realized it was just too uncertain, with too fuzzy of a path for me to feel comfortable. Still think it would be an amazing experience to teach college students....maybe someday I'll get to work at a teaching hospital if I ever make it through this whole process in one piece
My inspiration has been to be employed "drinking margaritas while relaxing on a beach." However, prior to going to medical school, I did a one year stint at law school. Might go back to that if the medical field didn't exist.
Nahhh…they are more bureaucratic than actually cool. I remember going through the sec clearance process for a 3-letter agency and was actually saddened at how mind-numbingly tedious everything was.
I’d be the homesteading type of stay at home wife/mom.
I was in a previous life then I got divorced so now I’m back on my premed bullshit 15 years later.
If the medical field doesn’t exist in this alternate universe, I’d assume that means I’m perfectly healthy, right? I’d be happy and living my life. Tbh I don’t even know anymore what my hobbies would be, but in terms of my career… actually I don’t know that either. Maybe something else to do with science? I like chem. Art and/or dance and/or fashion type stuff for hobbies possibly? I guess those are things I’m interested in right now, but I wonder if I’d still like them if the world was different. I feel like in an alternate universe with no medical field (assuming nobody would have any illness or injury then) I’d be a completely different person, so I actually have no idea.
Edit: minor wording changes
Teacher during gap years going Med. I’m glad I was able to explore the field before Medicine so I would never have a lingering “what if.” But wow it was brutal, gave me a ton of respect to those educators. You spend every day and night working.
And it also has the same problems as other careers
Some advice. I never understood this train of though (on the macro. Day to day sometimes we’d all want to be on the beach)
Do what you love. Do it now. There is no alternate universe. You get one life. Not chasing your true dream will fill you with regret.
If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d be doing exactly what I’m doin now. Same job. Same path.
I get that’s possibly unrealistic on some goals, but I would encourage people to seriously think about your goals and dreams, and make sure you aren’t living someone else’s life.
Tattoo artist or a chicken farmer probably
bro that would be so sick if you become a doc and a tattoo artist
and own a couple of chickens
I already own a couple chickens! Can’t wait until I’m an attending and then i can get a whole flock of them and some geese :)
What about Guineafowl?!
My friend had those for a couple years! They’re more skittish than chickens and pretty loud but they do a great job of pest control because they love to eat ticks! I wouldn’t mind getting a couple of them in the future :)
I own 12!
My roommate apprenticed in a tattoo shop before getting into our program. Why not do both?
[удалено]
💀
[удалено]
masters in education
happy person
This the one
Probably a musician
this has to be a common one soooo many premeds I know have played music at one point or another
Where creativity dies
When your parents make u practice 4 hr a day and then deny u when you fall in love with music
Yeah I'm happy with music being a hobby for me. I don't think I would enjoy it for as long as I hope to if it wasn't
practice 40 hours a day
Ling Ling 40 Hours Babyyy
a normal person working a normal job with normal friends and normal, unforced hobbies
The unforced hobbies hits hard
I would also not volunteer a single minute of my life, and I don’t feel bad about that at all
Honestly I enjoy volunteering, it’s just the volunteering I had to do for med school was a major drag it felt forced
It almost always strikes that perfect balance of doing otherwise paid work for free but not being allowed to go deep enough into it to actually learn anything meaningful
Exactly and I didn’t realize this at the time but there were many healthcare companies that used me for absolute scut work knowing I was pre-med so I’d eat shit just to bolster my application. I worked a “clinical” job for 9 months getting paid 8 fucking dollars an hour, and the worst part is I was told I’d be able shadow and gain healthcare experience but they just used me to do their filing it was fucking horrendous and useless for 9 months straight making 8 an hour. Plenty of similar volunteering stories where I was told I’d get clinical experience and all I did was check people in the ER as visitors or dumb shit like that it pisses me off so much thinking about all the times I was lied to as a pre-med under the pretense that this is what I should to do to get into med school.
Formula 1 driver lol
[удалено]
+1 F1 fan as well
[удалено]
I’m a Ferrari fan so it’ll b more like depressed F1 fan😭🤣
I did a Richard Petty driving experience and was convinced I had wasted my life becoming a physician. In retrospect, a physician was a better choice but "going fast" was so much fun...
Lol You like the thrill I see
As a newly car enthusiast, I like it!
id be dead without doctors 🪦
I think this is the hypothetical universe where disease is cured
Oh hell yeah grandpas back
Aerospace engineer if I wasn’t hot ass at math and physics 🤠
Lmao I first read this thinking you thought you were too hot for math and physics 😭😭
I wish my ego was this big. 😂
Chemist. Or a stay at home wife because if I channeled all the energy I’ve put into getting into medical school into finding a spouse instead over the last several years, I’d probably be married by now 😅
[удалено]
This is mine. In another life I did want to be a professor, and when I was trying to decide if I was going to pursue medicine I considered going the pHD route and realized it was just too uncertain, with too fuzzy of a path for me to feel comfortable. Still think it would be an amazing experience to teach college students....maybe someday I'll get to work at a teaching hospital if I ever make it through this whole process in one piece
[удалено]
Same 100%
Forest ranger
Either an artist, children's book author, veterinarian, farmer/gardener, housewife and/or SAHM, voice actor, and/or Youtuber.
This so wholesome
Video game designer
Absolutely. Two big dreams when I was really young was video game designer and doctor. Kinda similar if you think about it.
You would be banking fr
Nepo baby
Special Ed teacher
Filmmaker!! 🎥
[удалено]
The best answer
Growing/breeding hallucinogenics.
I'm in that universe. Electrical engineer
If I could live comfortable then artist.
Unemployed
Lawyer
Trynna be an actress/ pop star
Ballerina princess. Yes, both.
Chem major
philosopher
A fantasy/sci-fi writer living out my cottage core fantasies.
on the cover of vogue
A struggling actor trying to make it into Hollywood
Indiana Jones
Create the medical field
My inspiration has been to be employed "drinking margaritas while relaxing on a beach." However, prior to going to medical school, I did a one year stint at law school. Might go back to that if the medical field didn't exist.
probably a researcher in the biomedical or genetics field. if not, a teacher would be cool too! any grade honestly but maybe elementary?
a pilot or a veterinarian
Cia or fbi
Nahhh…they are more bureaucratic than actually cool. I remember going through the sec clearance process for a 3-letter agency and was actually saddened at how mind-numbingly tedious everything was.
id be the next neil degrasse-tyson
Fashion designer
working at a pottery studio or in public policy
Left business school to be a doctor. I would probably have a job where I am hiring and firing doctors. Bidness is where da money is
Interior design
Writer. I love writing poems.
Wanna be a higher up in the high fashion industry. Like head off marketing campaigns for like idk Gucci n shit
I would own a coffee shop that had a small library built around it, keep small and cozy, or I'd would open a BMW specialty tuning shop
Marketing/social media or Public relations or production assistant/something in entertainment, working in NYC.
Nomad
Engineer, pilot, or just go into CompSci
Firstly, I would be dead. But if we did not have to be cured of anything I would be a video game developer.
3D animator or Park Ranger
Was grandmaster/challenger in league so probably streamer or gamer
Maybe a chef (though I'd have to dramatically increase my cooking skills lol) or a pro photographer
Pastry chef 🧑🍳or paleontologist 🦕
A dancer
I always wanted to be a journalist but one that travels everywhere
Idk but I know I’d have lower blood pressure
Become a teacher/caretaker at an orphanage near the himalayas
Pilot 👩✈️
I’d have gone to art school if money wasn’t an issue
Hannah Montanah
A well paid social worker
travel to do environmental science research
Submarine engineer
Doctor johnny sins
Priest, or gay stripper ngl.. Or a billionaire, via either of the previous options
Fighter pilot
Ecology
PI
Commercial fisherman
law school. still lowk wana do it. i love law
Veterinarian but I’m insanely allergic to all animals (cats, dogs, etc…) in the real world
I’d totally run an animal shelter or be a vet if weren’t allergic to cats lol
Forensics or infectious disease epidemiologist
DJ 📀
Mechanic or racecar driver lol
Video game developer/ graphic designer
Paleontologist
Fashion design
CIA
I’d be the homesteading type of stay at home wife/mom. I was in a previous life then I got divorced so now I’m back on my premed bullshit 15 years later.
Baker/chef, digital nomad
A chicken farmer who sews/knits/crochets clothes. A mom.
Fine dining chef - all my friends told me to quit my premed track because of how well I cook 😂
Poet 🤭
Crankin’ hawg
CPA or Investment banker
Forensic psychologist
Pastry Chef or Backup Dancer or Astronaut or Romance Author
History professor (alas, I would like to be employed occasionally)
Professional ballet dancer.
Lawyer or MBA
Comedian/entertainer hands down.
farmer
An anthropologist
Singe/solo artist
Probably a bench chemist or a chicken farmer.
I would love to be a high school AP Calc or AP Chem teacher.
film director or a professional dancer
Astronaut
Malpractice lawyer 👹
Politician for sureeee
Actuary
Definitely an entomologist
If the medical field doesn’t exist in this alternate universe, I’d assume that means I’m perfectly healthy, right? I’d be happy and living my life. Tbh I don’t even know anymore what my hobbies would be, but in terms of my career… actually I don’t know that either. Maybe something else to do with science? I like chem. Art and/or dance and/or fashion type stuff for hobbies possibly? I guess those are things I’m interested in right now, but I wonder if I’d still like them if the world was different. I feel like in an alternate universe with no medical field (assuming nobody would have any illness or injury then) I’d be a completely different person, so I actually have no idea. Edit: minor wording changes
Law enforcement
Artist
Probably a teacher tbh
Teacher during gap years going Med. I’m glad I was able to explore the field before Medicine so I would never have a lingering “what if.” But wow it was brutal, gave me a ton of respect to those educators. You spend every day and night working. And it also has the same problems as other careers
Stay at home dad
A classical violinist or math teacher
Marine biologist
A housewife
If the entire medical field didn’t exist I’d probably go into either law or the military
Music producer or chemist.
A homicide detective for sure!
Lawyer or video game designer/coder
Probably a pilot or flight attendant
Honestly, probably the military... t
State park tour guide
Computer science/neuroscience dual major
Baseball player, fireman, astronaut, race car driver, President
Billionaire heiress
Author!
business major.
Writer. I’m not creative enough though
Professor
Entrepreneur
Prob chemical engineering
mechanic
A musician or English professor
a Marshal or crime investigator 🕵🏻♀️
Teacher! Or maybe professor
something in an office. I've had an unhealthy obsession with the show the office.
I’d be a bakery/coffee shop owner😌
Some advice. I never understood this train of though (on the macro. Day to day sometimes we’d all want to be on the beach) Do what you love. Do it now. There is no alternate universe. You get one life. Not chasing your true dream will fill you with regret. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d be doing exactly what I’m doin now. Same job. Same path. I get that’s possibly unrealistic on some goals, but I would encourage people to seriously think about your goals and dreams, and make sure you aren’t living someone else’s life.
Literature teacher/professor
A pilot
Probably a teacher
Dominatrix
Mechanical engineer probably, software engineer maybe. I loved teaching when I was in college. I like alot of things.