I'm 28 years old and graduated from university a year ago with a finance degree (late bloomer) but working in a lucrative field within finance (hedge fund). My job has left me unfulfilled as I realize I just chase numbers on a screen.Would it be crazy to start studying medicine at 30?Should I throw away a comfy / lucrative role?
>>33779648I've come to realise that you canake insane money within your field of interest in this day and age, almost regardless od field and your own current age. If you're smart enough to get into med school or work for an actual hedge fund with business, you're smart enough to monetize your interest or passion. Look at medical researchera who love their work and who found startups and make bank. They're not even doing it for the money, although I don't doubt that they want to be comfy as well.
>>33779648I won't read: is it over, is this normal, calendar of doom, missed milestones,I'm scared of doing the wrong thing, I'm such a spineless worm that I need reassurance, I have no volition whatsoever please help, threads.
>>33779748Not op, but bouncing ideas of other people is not a bad thing.
>>33779648Will they even admit you? They as in good or even shit medical schools. It’s not like they lack applicants. And it’s just a bad idea to risk patients by letting an old inexperienced doctor to enter the field.
I'm done shit posting and using your thread to mark the end of it.
DOnt do it. Medicine is extremely demoralizing and even less fulfilling than basically anything.People will constantly die on you because financing psychopaths or someone else in the food chain could care less. If you go science route its even worse. You will constantly witness life saving tech that belong to the whole of humanity, being withheld from humans because company thinks their patent wont pay off. You will see constant lies, fakes and debauchery being supported and promoted by shareholders. It is insanity and I want to kill myself every day.
>>33779748>I hate people asking for advice in a board meant for asking adviceThen you can kindly fuck off of this board, thanks.
>>33779648Go for it. No amount of money is worth killing your soul
>>33780639I'm currently in the finance world and that is demoralizing, it can't get worse than this.
>>33780832>implying healthcare isn't soul killing
>>33779648I became an NP at 24. My preceptor became an NP at 54. One of my friends started med school at 30. It is not too late.
>>33779648Doctor to NEET/IT dropout/wannabe artist.Medicine is a trade. a High stress trade in which people with severe lack of empathy thrive, empathetic people waste, and people who don't need purpose can keep climbing the ladder.If your job left you unfulfilled despite making money, people in medicine do it 100% for the money. Don't expect to find any meaning, it's just day in, day out. Getting attached to patients is discouraged. If you're the kind of person who would go to charities, play with the kids for 5minutes and think you made a difference with that little, medicine can be an ok choice but there are others.Medicine is about uncertainty. Interventions are like throwing a ball into a basket that lies over a picket fence. Results are visible on the least one day after intervention, if not one week or months depending on the descending severity of the problem. You can't be sure whether you're helping for sure or causing harm. You can't be sure if the patient got better or worse because of what you did. Sometimes you have guidelines to follow, which involve dangerous procedures, you may argue "this step feels too dangerous and this could also work", but that goes beyond protocol and you will get shit for it and look indecisive to the nurses who will snitch. Reading studies and research always ends up in "We think our angle works but can't be sure", you read a study that contradicts it and also says "We think our angle works too but the other angle is standard, caution is recommended". Sometimes, there simply aren't studies, for example anything about masturbation/prostatitis in urology.Medicine is customer service. People are dumb, you read them, you send tests and chase the numbers, then you pitch a lifestyle change so they stop being unhealthy.Surgeons are assholes and have a culture of memorizing useless bullshit like outdated techniques, names, trivialities like anatomic reference and so on. Then you cut meat day in day out.
>>33784687>>33779648In other words, Medicine is a customer service-trade mixture with a lot of memorizing and recalling and almost no problem solving. A lot of doctors treat it like catching pokemon, others take pride in doing dangerous procedures regardless of patient safety.Also, not specializing means becoming a foot soldier and nothing more. You rise ranks by specializing and doing progressively more courses for clout, which doesn't translate into skill. Employers can't measure "people were more satisfied with this guy in his previous job", so all you have to show for it are diplomas.
