> you can't become a doc for love of the profession, because it's a profession you can't test drive
oh, I don't know about that. It's like a 6 week community college course to become an EMT. There's a test drive for you. There are 2 year programs that will get you a nursing license.
You can get a taste of the medical career path without going the full MD route. Maybe not as accessible as coding, but it is accessible.
As my kids are just now graduating HS, this is something I try to drill into them. College can be like an assembly line that spits you out saddled with the equivalent of a 30 year mortgage, trained for a job space that you literally have no idea if you'll even want to do ... or it can be like a Baskin Robins of careers, and you can try every last one of them until you find what you really like.
passion and knowledge of self are everything. the rest is a commodity.
oh, I don't know about that. It's like a 6 week community college course to become an EMT. There's a test drive for you. There are 2 year programs that will get you a nursing license.
You can get a taste of the medical career path without going the full MD route. Maybe not as accessible as coding, but it is accessible.
As my kids are just now graduating HS, this is something I try to drill into them. College can be like an assembly line that spits you out saddled with the equivalent of a 30 year mortgage, trained for a job space that you literally have no idea if you'll even want to do ... or it can be like a Baskin Robins of careers, and you can try every last one of them until you find what you really like.
passion and knowledge of self are everything. the rest is a commodity.