Choosing a major or career path.

[yoloyolo]

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This is my 2nd year and I need to choose a major. I am interested in health care field and want a stable employment after graduated. I am good at math and OK in biology and chemistry. At first, I was planning to do pharmacist or dentistry but now I think that I am not smart enough and need to lower my expectation to a 4 years degree. My grades in intro science courses are usually around 3.2, which isn't really high enough for professional programs and I know that intro are the easiest courses. I really want to stay in the health care field. I am not really good with communication but a little talking with other people won't hurt me. Can you guys please help me choose a major in the health care area (other than nursing and clinical laboratory science) that can provide me a stable employment after graduate?

Thank you!

 

[iforget2]

There's always PA or maybe a job in public health.

 

[deleted462159]

At first, I was planning to do pharmacist or dentistry but now I think that I am not smart enough and need to lower my expectation to a 4 years degree.

While you shouldn't have unrealistic expectations or pretend to be someone else, don't think like that. Pharmacy or dentistry may not be the right careers for you. But choose a career to pursue because you love it--not because you are lowering your expectations, especially "to a 4-year degree."

 

[AntiHouseMD]

There's always PA or maybe a job in public health.

Don't go into PA just as a back-up for medical school. Just my two-cents.

 

[davidbm95]

I'll be glad to help you. First off:

There's always PA or maybe a job in public health.

PA school is very difficult to get into and if you don't excel in the sciences that much it isn't your thing at all. PA school is also way past a 4 year path. With a 3.2 you look like your past the margins of medical school and MAYBE dentistry. You should first of increase your gpa tremendously if you want to be successful anywhere. I would say you should look into 3 different fields that are around the range of 4 years... nursing, hospital technician, Medic. The most adventurous is a medic ( highest level of EMT), a nurse is as you know a nurse, they work long hours in a day but work 3-4 days a week and get great pay. You have to give me more information do you want high pay, very involved in medicine, or your just looking for a career as fast as possible such as a technician?

Take your time and think about. Ask me anything you'd like and i'll answer.

P.S. don't lower your expectations of yourself. You could be a doctor if you wanted to.

 

[yoloyolo]

I'll be glad to help you. First off:






PA school is very difficult to get into and if you don't excel in the sciences that much it isn't your thing at all. PA school is also way past a 4 year path. With a 3.2 you look like your past the margins of medical school and MAYBE dentistry. You should first of increase your gpa tremendously if you want to be successful anywhere. I would say you should look into 3 different fields that are around the range of 4 years... nursing, hospital technician, Medic. The most adventurous is a medic ( highest level of EMT), a nurse is as you know a nurse, they work long hours in a day but work 3-4 days a week and get great pay. You have to give me more information do you want high pay, very involved in medicine, or your just looking for a career as fast as possible such as a technician?

Take your time and think about. Ask me anything you'd like and i'll answer.

P.S. don't lower your expectations of yourself. You could be a doctor if you wanted to.

Hello, I do want to have a career that involves around health care with a good salary. I'm willing to stay in school as long as I can, but you know my GPA is not high enough for dentistry, med, pharm, PA or PT programs. I really want to do well but I don't know the skills to use in studying for classes such as biology/chemistry. If you can, please provide me with some tips of how to do well in these science classes and what are other careers that involve health care with good salary?

Thank you.

 

[davidbm95]

Hello, I do want to have a career that involves around health care with a good salary. I'm willing to stay in school as long as I can, but you know my GPA is not high enough for dentistry, med, pharm, PA or PT programs. I really want to do well but I don't know the skills to use in studying for classes such as biology/chemistry. If you can, please provide me with some tips of how to do well in these science classes and what are other careers that involve health care with good salary?

Thank you.

Sure thing. To start you have a 3.2. That's good enough for most PT programs and you're only in your second year. That's plenty of time to get your GPA up to around 3.6. With a 3.6 you can honestly do anything from PT to MD school. You just have to have great EC's and research.

But say you keep a 3.2 through out college... there are programs such as EMT, Surgical tech, nursing, Pharm tech, Ortho tech, ER tech, many different techs that are pretty much assistants and do the physical stuff. I am very good with info in all these fields. Ask me about any of them or PM me. Out of that whole list my favorites are the EMT (very involved) and nursing (mid-high pay with great hours and a great job).

Ask me about PT or PA programs as well. You can easily reach the standards for these programs.

For tips in science classes, it's a lot of memorization so work on that specifically and a lot of calculating so that is just practice. Read a lot thats my personal tip for science classes. READ 😎

 

[Crimson2016]

Petroleum/ Chemical Engineering.

 

[pharmerbobs]

At first, I was planning to do pharmacist or dentistry but now I think that I am not smart enough and need to lower my expectation to a 4 years degree.

I don't know you personally, so I'm not sure how accurate your assumption of your science skills are. I tell people that I am OK in science, and they look at me like I just told them the biggest lie they've ever heard (I'm not trying to boast, I'm being honest). To you, you may think that you're not "smart enough" to do this or that, but in reality, you may be taking yourself out of the game before it even starts.

In all honesty, I think as long as you feel like a certain career path is your true calling, it doesn't matter if you're naturally smart in science or math. Because when you have a goal set in your mind to be something, you work hard to reach it. I say this because I know a guy who barely got through high school and ended up enlisting in the army just to have something to do after he graduated. While in the army, he realized what he wanted to do in life was be a nurse. And quite frankly, this guy was not smart compared to the people he was competing with. But, he worked. And worked. And worked. Now, he recently just got offered a full scholarship out of eighty other people.

I know this may not have answered your original question of which career path you should take, but it's really something you should think about. For most people, they only get one chance in life to determine what career path they want to take. Of course, you have those who go back to school after they have settled down with a family, but not everyone is so lucky. Don't pick something now just because you think it's within your limits. This is the time in life where you want to challenge yourself and seek out your full potential, as corny as that sounds. You don't want to regret it later.

Sorry for my long ramble, but it's a concept that I had been struggling to come in terms with until recently.

 

[nysegop]

You have many options. You could do neuroscience, dietetics (food and nutrition studies), physical therapy, or physical training. There are many options for getting in health fields. Heck, you could study political science and do some public health work.

 

[yoloyolo]

I don't know you personally, so I'm not sure how accurate your assumption of your science skills are. I tell people that I am OK in science, and they look at me like I just told them the biggest lie they've ever heard (I'm not trying to boast, I'm being honest). To you, you may think that you're not "smart enough" to do this or that, but in reality, you may be taking yourself out of the game before it even starts.

In all honesty, I think as long as you feel like a certain career path is your true calling, it doesn't matter if you're naturally smart in science or math. Because when you have a goal set in your mind to be something, you work hard to reach it. I say this because I know a guy who barely got through high school and ended up enlisting in the army just to have something to do after he graduated. While in the army, he realized what he wanted to do in life was be a nurse. And quite frankly, this guy was not smart compared to the people he was competing with. But, he worked. And worked. And worked. Now, he recently just got offered a full scholarship out of eighty other people.

I know this may not have answered your original question of which career path you should take, but it's really something you should think about. For most people, they only get one chance in life to determine what career path they want to take. Of course, you have those who go back to school after they have settled down with a family, but not everyone is so lucky. Don't pick something now just because you think it's within your limits. This is the time in life where you want to challenge yourself and seek out your full potential, as corny as that sounds. You don't want to regret it later.

Sorry for my long ramble, but it's a concept that I had been struggling to come in terms with until recently.

"This is the time in life where you want to challenge yourself and seek out your full potential." - This is not corny at all! Thank you a lot for the advice. You're right, thinking about it, I only have this one opportunity in life to choose a career that I love - this is why I will accept the challenge and work like crazy for it.😎

 

[davidbm95]

Don't go into PA just as a back-up for medical school. Just my two-cents.

There's nothing wrong with PA school. It can be very similar to the career of a physician. Although in some way's PA and MD are on two different ends of the spectrum, so it shouldn't be a backup if failed to get into a medical school. Your backup for medical school can be DO school. Those are very much in common.