<p>I was going to suggest Nurse Practitioner, but Physician Assistant is probably more appropriate. Unless, you want to become a Nurse first to help pay for your education. Then the NP route might be better.</p>
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<p>What do you like to do? </p>
<p>What were your three favorite courses or assignments in undergrad?</p>
<p>Myers Briggs is not designed to tell you what you are good at and what you should pursue as a career. If you are using it that way- or if the person administering it is trying to use it that way- you should stop and just ignore the result. There are people in every profession with a variety of Myers Briggs types; sometimes it’s a helpful diagnostic tool so that they can all work together and better understand each other.</p>
<p>Take a gap year- Get a working holiday visa and go to Australia or new Zealand for a year or so. Have some adventures.</p>
<p>When you say “I don’t know if the lifestyle is the right fit for me”. </p>
<p>What do you envision, and what about it turns you off?</p>
<p>A lot of people want to go into medicine. Nobody can help you until you elucidate what about it doesn’t appeal to you. You really haven’t done that. </p>
<p>Once you do that, people can suggest roads that won’t have the same quality that you don’t like. </p>
<p>Is it the long hours, the long road to get there, high dept, the low pay, the questionable future, the smell, being around sick people, etc. I could never be a physician because I pretty much went into shock when they started discussing the details of the childbirth in Lamaze class, and I hate hospitals. </p>
<p>What turns you off?</p>
<p>As for physician assistant - call me an insecure jerk (and feel free to laugh), but I’d have trouble with the word “Assistant” in a permanent title. (I’d be OK with it in an entry-level job, but the thought of being called that forever…) Nurse practitioner I’d feel more comfortable with, if I could get over the stigma of being a male “nurse”.</p>
<p>But then again, those have very similar pros and cons to medicine, which is getting back to the original question. (“How I’d know the FIELD of medicine was right for me.”)</p>
<p>I could retake classes / do a post-bacc for DO school (I’d be fine with that, and to h-e-double-hockey-sticks to anyone who thinks less of me).</p>
<p>But…what if I went through the four years and decided I didn’t want to practice? (Probably irrational, but I’d appreciate feedback.)</p>
<p>Favorite classes? (cue laugh track)</p>
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<li>Biochemistry</li>
<li>Music</li>
<li>Writing</li>
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<p>(Play laugh track)</p>
<p>Things I like about medicine:</p>
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<li>“Problem-solving”.</li>
<li>Good amount of social interaction, but not excessive or schmoozing.</li>
<li>Research is always going on.</li>
<li>Many specialties.</li>
<li>Something new every day.</li>
<li>Stability in the long run.</li>
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<p>Things I don’t like about medicine:</p>
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<li>Gunner types in it for the wrong reasons</li>
<li>Liability</li>
<li>Stress of residency (horror stories)</li>
<li>That sterile feeling of being stuck in a hospital
…wait, that’s about it? I honestly can’t think of anything else right now.</li>
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<p>Ok, sorry to rant.</p>
<p>So, I’ve decided I’m working towards a goal…you know which one…maybe I sound foolish, but I’m going to take it step by step, one day at a time. I’ve accepted the fact that things might change between now and then…who knows where I’ll end up in the next few years?</p>
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<p>You don’t have to worry about either of these programs, because with your grades, no school is going to accept you.</p>
<p>Ok. Thanks for the very kind and conscientious comment. I told you, I have no idea about the future - I am going to get work experience first.</p>