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Hello everyone,
I've been working a very full-time job at a non-profit for the past year since graduating in 2015. My job has several special events throughout the year so I sometimes work really late nights where I come home anywhere between 10pm to 1am (maybe once every other month). I've been having a difficult time trying to study since late October of 2015 but since this past June, I've found a way to study at least 2.5 hours a day (Monday to Friday) and around 6 hours on the weekend. But there has been restructuring at my organization and some office politics that's been driving me crazy and so I feel like I'm doing 2-3 full-time jobs right now. My supervisor is trying to help reduce the tremendous stress I am going through but I'm concerned that I'm not going to be able to focus and study if this continues much longer.
I'm seriously considering resigning and studying for the MCAT full-time but concerned about financials as the city I live is expensive. I will have about 3 months rent saved up by the time I resign but need to figure out living expenses. I'm aiming to take the January 2017 exam. I've taken the old MCAT in January 2015 and did very poorly (scored 20...) so I can't screw up this time. I've already unofficially pushed back my exam twice and decided to take 3 years off instead of 2 so I don't want to delay the exam any further. I want at least 3 months to hard core study as I'm not a good standardize test taker (although my GPA is 3.9+). My other thought was asking my boss if I can take a month off in January to study and go part time starting in October. Would this be enough time?? But I really doubt she will let me with the amount of work that I do so that's why I'm trying to think of a backup plan upon resignation.
My other concern is finding a job after I finish the MCAT as I still have at least 1.5 years to go before starting med school. But just because I study full-time doesn't mean that I will do well on the exam so I'm nervous about the risk.
Has anyone else been in a similar situation where you quit your job to study? Or conversely worked and studied?
Thank you so much!!
I've been working a very full-time job at a non-profit for the past year since graduating in 2015. My job has several special events throughout the year so I sometimes work really late nights where I come home anywhere between 10pm to 1am (maybe once every other month). I've been having a difficult time trying to study since late October of 2015 but since this past June, I've found a way to study at least 2.5 hours a day (Monday to Friday) and around 6 hours on the weekend. But there has been restructuring at my organization and some office politics that's been driving me crazy and so I feel like I'm doing 2-3 full-time jobs right now. My supervisor is trying to help reduce the tremendous stress I am going through but I'm concerned that I'm not going to be able to focus and study if this continues much longer.
I'm seriously considering resigning and studying for the MCAT full-time but concerned about financials as the city I live is expensive. I will have about 3 months rent saved up by the time I resign but need to figure out living expenses. I'm aiming to take the January 2017 exam. I've taken the old MCAT in January 2015 and did very poorly (scored 20...) so I can't screw up this time. I've already unofficially pushed back my exam twice and decided to take 3 years off instead of 2 so I don't want to delay the exam any further. I want at least 3 months to hard core study as I'm not a good standardize test taker (although my GPA is 3.9+). My other thought was asking my boss if I can take a month off in January to study and go part time starting in October. Would this be enough time?? But I really doubt she will let me with the amount of work that I do so that's why I'm trying to think of a backup plan upon resignation.
My other concern is finding a job after I finish the MCAT as I still have at least 1.5 years to go before starting med school. But just because I study full-time doesn't mean that I will do well on the exam so I'm nervous about the risk.
Has anyone else been in a similar situation where you quit your job to study? Or conversely worked and studied?
Thank you so much!!