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Some of you on here have been kind enough to read my personal statement and an underlying theme has emerged. That theme is why do you REALLY want to become a doctor.
I guess saying that I want to help people is too cliché and I need to get deeper. One of the main reasons (NOT the main reason), in addition to helping people is job security. I had that originally in my personal statement, and I was told to take it out.
I did take it out, and that is where my hole resides.
A little background, I have been a part-time personal fitness trainer for about 15 years. In addition, I have been a volunteer counselor in the ministry field. My fulltime job for the past 20 years has been a computer programmer.
The computer programmer job was not for me. In addition, to the isolation, I have been laid off about five times due to the outsourcing to India (Yes our computer jobs are going overseas). The ministry field and in personal fitness training are not secure jobs either. I have had plenty of friends laid off in those areas as well.
Anyway I know I want to become a doctor, it combines both counseling and fitness trainer in a job that is SECURE.
I do not have those stories of playing doctor when I was a kid and always wanted to become a doctor, nor did my grandfather die of an incurable disease and I want to discover that cure.
So here is my question. Is there a way to add in such a worded way that one of the many reasons that I want to become a doctor is for job security.
P.S. I am not questioning if I want to become a doctor, I know that is what I want in my heart and in my head.
Thanks in advance for your replies
I guess saying that I want to help people is too cliché and I need to get deeper. One of the main reasons (NOT the main reason), in addition to helping people is job security. I had that originally in my personal statement, and I was told to take it out.
I did take it out, and that is where my hole resides.
A little background, I have been a part-time personal fitness trainer for about 15 years. In addition, I have been a volunteer counselor in the ministry field. My fulltime job for the past 20 years has been a computer programmer.
The computer programmer job was not for me. In addition, to the isolation, I have been laid off about five times due to the outsourcing to India (Yes our computer jobs are going overseas). The ministry field and in personal fitness training are not secure jobs either. I have had plenty of friends laid off in those areas as well.
Anyway I know I want to become a doctor, it combines both counseling and fitness trainer in a job that is SECURE.
I do not have those stories of playing doctor when I was a kid and always wanted to become a doctor, nor did my grandfather die of an incurable disease and I want to discover that cure.
So here is my question. Is there a way to add in such a worded way that one of the many reasons that I want to become a doctor is for job security.
P.S. I am not questioning if I want to become a doctor, I know that is what I want in my heart and in my head.
Thanks in advance for your replies
