Nonclinical employment situation

[RespectTheChemistry]

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[cj_cregg]

Were you doing anything that will be on your medical school application between ages 22 and 27?

 

[GoSpursGo]

You’ve asked variants of this question a few times now, and this is not a concern You will presumably already say something about how you needed to withdraw from some semesters due to a medical condition which is now controlled. I think that pretty well covers your lack of work experience as well.

 

[LunaOri]

You don’t need to list every job, but it might be noticed if you had significant gaps (longer than a month or two). If you had a whole series of jobs that were very short term, perhaps you could list them in aggregate as temp work?

 

[RespectTheChemistry]

Were you doing anything that will be on your medical school application between ages 22 and 27?

I gradually earned about 90 college credits. I did quite a bit of volunteering too because it was much more flexible scheduling. (I was getting head injuries and breaking bones all the time too in addition to the driving thing.)

 

[cj_cregg]

I gradually earned about 90 college credits. I did quite a bit of volunteering too because it was much more flexible scheduling. (I was getting head injuries and breaking bones all the time too in addition to the driving thing.)

Then I think that's fine. We want you to be doing SOMETHING if you are physically capable of doing so, but it does not have to be paid employment. I have never looked at an application specifically to figure out if someone had paid employment consistently since they graduated college. If it does come up, while your epilepsy certainly played a role it sounds like the bigger issue was the lack of opportunities and lack of transportation where you were located, and I think it would also be fine to say it that way.

 

[RespectTheChemistry]

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[cj_cregg]

Thank you very much for your help! You're right. If I lived in an urban area where public transit was an option and there were simply more employers, I would have worked for pay much more consistently.

Just to clarify, I don't think the bolded describes my situation because I have not yet graduated college. I will graduate in May of 2023. I started earning credits towards this bachelor's when I was 20. They were extra slow-going towards the beginning because of the health problems. I have been in school to a variable extent for the past 7 years. It's the part-time semesters and W's from the health problems that have managed to stretch that so long.

The 22 mentioned in my post was just saying that I thought ADCOMs may not care if a traditional age college student hadn't had more than a year of consistent paid employment but when you're older, that's different. I thought they might be more likely to look for paid employment specifically given my chronological age so I thought I'd ask.

I don't think any of that matters or changes the advice, but I just wanted to clarify on the off-chance that it does.

I would not worry about it.

 

[RespectTheChemistry]

Thank you all so much for your help! I really appreciate it!