Guest 4shattered4 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 I'm just curious since I know a lot of people who are planning away when they're only in Grade 9 or Grade 10. I didn't even know what subject area I wanted to do back then. I think I only decided to think about it more about the beginning of this year or end of Grade 12. What about you guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wab8611 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 i always wanted to be a doctor, but i think it wasnt until this year when i became serious about it. (my gr12 year) wab8611 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 0T6 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 It wasn't until OAC that I was "set" on it and really started to work for it. Before then it was something I was conscious of, but I was also interested in going into banking, law, and commercial aviation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TimmyMax Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 Hey, I didn't seriously start thinking about/going for med until halfway through my third year of undergrad. Seems to have worked for me! Best of luck! Timmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 007 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 I'm one of those kids who decided in Gr. 7. (i.e. in 1994 when ER started) I had wanted to be a lawyer, orthodontist, news anchor, and coroner before that though and I seriously reevaluated whether medicine was what I wanted to do during undergrad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UWOMED2005 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 When I was 4. Wait - no I think I wanted to be cowboy when I was four. . . medicine came later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marbledust Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 I didn't decide until after I was done an undergrad degree that was as far away from science and medicine as possible. Then I started dating a medical student and he brought me over to "the dark side" of science My earliest career aspiration was to be a cashier at the grocery store so I could eat the chocolate bars and candy beside the till. That is starting to sound like a good career choice again as clerkship drags on:lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 007 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 I used to work as a cashier and it was my fave job to date! We didn't eat candy off the racks that often, but we did love to get a ben and jerry's tub of ice cream and cut it horizontally through the middle and share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jerika81 Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 My parents actually have one of those books that you update each year of your child's life with picture, height, weight, any great accomplishments that year, etc. And of course what they want to be when they grow up. This seems unbelievable to me now, but I actually filled in P.D.Otrishion when I was 9 years old and this remained my career of choice until about gr.11 (I think I figured out the spelling around gr.7). Then I went through a teen angst phase where I didn't want to choose a career my parents would approve of...but after thinking about a number of career options, I realized between the summer of 2nd and 3rd year of undergrad that medicine had to be it. Even once I started med I was trying to keep my mind open to different things, but the truth is, other things are interesting, but nothing else compares to Pediatrics. The moral of my story: You know yourself better when you're 9 than when you're 17:b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endingsoon Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 straight out the nut sack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jochi1543 Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 Summer after my sophomore year of college.:hat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest clinicalchief Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 straight out the nut sack LOL :rollin For me, it was around the middle of gr12. cc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDHopefully2005 Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 Not until the end the end of the second year of my undergrad degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Braveheart Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 I decided after 2nd year of undergrad... kind of a late bloomer considering the fact that some other people knew what they wanted to do straight out of the nut sack... man, back in those days, I was still playing with Transformers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest noncestvrai Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 Well, I wanted to be an archeologist/paleontologist. I loved dinosaures, at around 5 yo. I also loved the Indiana Jones movies...After, I was really into computers, that was the time I was learning to program on BASIC and Logo (remember the mouse?). Following that, I was really into science, then half-way through undergrad, I saw my marks (:\ ) and said hard work will be needed to get into med...after work and grad school I am probably going to be a doctor, but I am secretly working on being a rock star... noncestvrai P.S. Come to think of it, I was good at playing doctor when I was a kid, was that a sign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isoceles Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 As a kid my ambitions were always to be a writer and a veterinarian... after starting undergrad in pre-vet, getting disillusioned and switching to English, and thinking about chucking it all to go back to the farm, I finally had an epiphany in the summer between 2nd and 3rd year. I decided I DID want medicine...but it was working with people, not animals like I had planned from the age of 5, that would make me happy. It's been 3 years since then and through the whole brutal hoop-jumping process it has always felt right. I stayed in my English program too... so it will be "writer" and doctor - my childhood ambitions weren't far off... it just took me awhile to figure things out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 4shattered4 Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 Thanks for the replies everyone =) Well, interesting to see a lot of contrasts. Most people here though seem to have decided around university-ish or a bit before. I remember that my family doctor said he decided when he was 2 years old :eek , but that sure doesn't beat "straight out of the nut sack" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vicervixen Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 Only in Grade 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deuce Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 It was first-year grad school before I gave it super serious consideration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest physiology Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 In the womb No, honestly, after watching Patch Adams and shadowing an ophthalmologist in grade 9. Physio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nicoleL Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 I'm with "nut sac". My dad is a family doc and I used to follow him everywhere when I was really young (3-7), his office, the hospital, the hospice, you name it. I loved talking with his patients and they seamed to get a real kick out of me, especially the old people at the hospice. The nurses really liked having me around too, I've actually stayed in touch with a few of them. Then as a got older a realised how much my dad's career took out of the rest of his life. He had a pretty bad spell, the failure of his marriage, estrangement with a few of my siblings and through it all he still worked tirelessly for his patients. He really is an amazing doctor, but at what cost? I decided that I wanted to be anything else. Journalism, teaching, dentistry, and physio where at the top of my list for a while. I just kept coming back to medicine though. In grade 12 I had an epiphany and I decided to go for it. I realised that the key was finding my own balance between work and life and working hard to maintain that balance. And I definitely wouldn't be happy if I never tried. So here I am, starting school in the fall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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