So this is not your common question. My question revolves around achieving your career goals specifically in medicine. As you guys know medicine is demanding, even preparing to get into a program is demanding and its affecting my overall life.
There are alot of things that contribute to this, but overall the source is not getting a career yet. It is a vicious cycle. Let me explain. I am trying to get into a program, but I am not achieving my goal, which in turn makes me grumpy, edgy, and overall irritated. I say until I get my career then I will have the time to do certain things I have always wanted to do such as jiu jitsu, mma, and travel the world. People say you can do that right now, but I don't have enough money and time for that right now. Its basically I am putting my life on hold to achieve this goal. Then my other friends who majored in accounting, computer science, and engineer are doing very well fresh out of college, while I am trying to get accepted into a program. They are living the adult life and seem to be happy while I am working low end medical assistant job, scraping by which makes me jealous and irritated.
So this adds a bit to my irritation since I have not reach that point. Then my grumpiness affects my friendships, friends say they see me as a grumpy person now when I used to be very happy person in undergrad. Getting in and getting career is only thing on my mind and is the source of my problem. My parents are on my back constantly, seeing their friends kids having careers already (people majored in accounting, engineer, comp sci), while I am trying to get into a program. They put me down and comparing me to them which just irritates me even more, so I just shut myself in my room and don't talk to them, specifically my dad (he is the one that irritates me the most). My love life is non-existent is because all I am doing is taking classes and working health related job, to improve my apps. With all of this added, I come off as irritated and grumpy, so in turn I close myself off and just become more closed off because people don't understand. I keep telling myself, once I get into a program and get started on my career then I will be able to do what I want in life. Does anyone feel this way? What is the best way to handle this? Is this common for people pursuing medicine?
There are alot of things that contribute to this, but overall the source is not getting a career yet. It is a vicious cycle. Let me explain. I am trying to get into a program, but I am not achieving my goal, which in turn makes me grumpy, edgy, and overall irritated. I say until I get my career then I will have the time to do certain things I have always wanted to do such as jiu jitsu, mma, and travel the world. People say you can do that right now, but I don't have enough money and time for that right now. Its basically I am putting my life on hold to achieve this goal. Then my other friends who majored in accounting, computer science, and engineer are doing very well fresh out of college, while I am trying to get accepted into a program. They are living the adult life and seem to be happy while I am working low end medical assistant job, scraping by which makes me jealous and irritated.
So this adds a bit to my irritation since I have not reach that point. Then my grumpiness affects my friendships, friends say they see me as a grumpy person now when I used to be very happy person in undergrad. Getting in and getting career is only thing on my mind and is the source of my problem. My parents are on my back constantly, seeing their friends kids having careers already (people majored in accounting, engineer, comp sci), while I am trying to get into a program. They put me down and comparing me to them which just irritates me even more, so I just shut myself in my room and don't talk to them, specifically my dad (he is the one that irritates me the most). My love life is non-existent is because all I am doing is taking classes and working health related job, to improve my apps. With all of this added, I come off as irritated and grumpy, so in turn I close myself off and just become more closed off because people don't understand. I keep telling myself, once I get into a program and get started on my career then I will be able to do what I want in life. Does anyone feel this way? What is the best way to handle this? Is this common for people pursuing medicine?