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Today I dropped optometry school in my home state. I was a first year student. I am a Biology major, and I picked optometry because I didn't want to do med school and wanted to be on the periphery of health care. I shadowed optometrists and I thought it would be a really cool and chill job. Another reason I picked optometry was because I thought it would be an easy route to $100k out of all the health profession careers (I was wrong about that). I never attended med school, but looking at other threads and med curriculums, I could say the first 2 years of optometry school are most likely comparable to med school. The stress of optometry school was getting to me. I was not doing bad in optometry school, I just honestly didn't like it. Why do I have to take classes such as biochem and micrbio (which I took in undergrad)? Will I ever have to synthesize orgaic reactions in my career? Because of this, I had less time to focus on classes that deal with the career such as optics and ocular anatomy. I feel like the opmetry program could be less than 4 years if they just focus on the classes for our careers. Also, It just felt like all I was doing was memorizing, which is not my strong suit. I know the curriculum gets more complex and the classes get more difficult (anterior/poster segment disease, pharmacology, etc...) I told myself I don't want to be killing myself for 3 years, and then work 40 hours a week during externships 4th year. I also felt that if I had to drop, I had to drop now, so I could cut my losses.
All I know is you have to have a passion for optometry, or any other grad school program in healthcare. I was so-so about entering optometry school, and just picked it because I needed to pick a career. I don't have the passion to work in healthcare, I feel like the education and working in it leads to burn out.
Now I have to figure what I want to do with my life. I went right into optometry school from undergrad. I was thinking biology teacher at high school or college level. I actually honestly enjoy teaching. Money is not the important thing for me. Enjoying life, spending time with family, and having time off is on the top of my list (kind of like what most Europeans value).
I would appreciate any advice from anyone too.
Thanks
All I know is you have to have a passion for optometry, or any other grad school program in healthcare. I was so-so about entering optometry school, and just picked it because I needed to pick a career. I don't have the passion to work in healthcare, I feel like the education and working in it leads to burn out.
Now I have to figure what I want to do with my life. I went right into optometry school from undergrad. I was thinking biology teacher at high school or college level. I actually honestly enjoy teaching. Money is not the important thing for me. Enjoying life, spending time with family, and having time off is on the top of my list (kind of like what most Europeans value).
I would appreciate any advice from anyone too.
Thanks