What are your goals in life?

[tchaikovsky]

I had it all planned out before. I was going to get my bachelors degree in nursing, and then get to work nights because I'm a vampire and I hate the daylight. Well not really but I hate the day time.
Now I'm not so sure. I'm tentatively planning on going into the military in the medical field somewhere and then continuing school in a year or two. But I'm not sure because there's been a lot going on in my life recently and I've been struggling. I'm still determined to become a nurse.

Keep at it, and don't lose your goals. It's really easy to let them slip away, but the end is no where near what it may have been. Regarding the military, everyone I know that goes into the military comes out a better person, contrary to popular belief. Plus, you get to be "on site" for a lot of things, which IMO is so much better than nursing a permanently sick society due to our inability to keep ourselves healthy.

[Sari]

Keep at it, and don't lose your goals. It's really easy to let them slip away, but the end is no where near what it may have been. Regarding the military, everyone I know that goes into the military comes out a better person, contrary to popular belief. Plus, you get to be "on site" for a lot of things, which IMO is so much better than nursing a permanently sick society due to our inability to keep ourselves healthy.

Oh for sure. I never really considered myself military material. But the more I look at it and think about it, the more I think it's be amazing for me. I am so not under the illusion that its going to be easy. Not at all. But if I end up doing that, I refuse to quit. Several people I've talked to have said that they wished they'd joined because of a lot of different things. I've got to get my depression under control because I can't be on those meds at basic training because if I had some problem or wasn't able to refill them, that could be bad. But once I do that... I think I'd really regret not doing it.

[cubefish]

get a liberal degree from a nice college
eat liberal degree for nutrition because people with liberal degrees don't get jobs

[SpecialisAlio]

Gets harder by the day to do the last part, with so much obstructive regulation. Solid outlook though, and that profession seems very constructive.

Thanks! Yeah, I figured. I work in a lab where a student is trying to get research published, and we haven't even started helping her write and she's had numerous breakdowns because she'll notice a systematic error or random error in her procedure which skews her data and so forth.

[Snow]

Go to uni, become a doctor, help orphans in Africa. And then get rich. In that order. And maybe not help the orphans. Only when I feel like it.

[tchaikovsky]

Go to uni, become a doctor, help orphans in Africa. And then get rich. In that order. And maybe not help the orphans. Only when I feel like it.

The 12 years of school is probably going to be the hardest part of that.

[Snow]

The 12 years of school is probably going to be the hardest part of that.

Oh tell me about it! I'm secretly hoping to specialize in neurology, which would take 13 years or more. But I'm very passionate about studying Medicine and I can't wait to start my studies in August. The only thing I'm bitter about is that when my friends are taking gap years and having a great time in cool places all around the world, I'll be studying my ass off.

[tchaikovsky]

Oh tell me about it! I'm secretly hoping to specialize in neurology, which would take 13 years or more. But I'm very passionate about studying Medicine and I can't wait to start my studies in August. The only thing I'm bitter about is that when my friends are taking gap years and having a great time in cool places all around the world, I'll be studying my ass off.

Well, find a job you love and never work a day in your life -Confucius.

[Snow]

Well, find a job you love and never work a day in your life -Confucius.

What a lovely quote, I couldn't agree more.

[tchaikovsky]

What a lovely quote, I couldn't agree more.

Yeah, I find myself repeating it a lot to my friends who all want to go work as engineers and bankers just for the money. Like cmon guys, what are you doing with your lives.