distressed

im gonna move up from junior high to senior high (pre-college) in less than 7 hours and i feel so strssed and confused right now. which is also the reason why i havent updated in a while. i needed to focus on the future career im going to pursue, cue the problems.

i really, really wanted to work in the medical field and to be a psychiatrist. but to become a psychiatrist i would need 8 years of studying, residencies and that, which would take me almost 15 years in all to become what i want to be. im not good at handling stress, and this is exactly the thing that would crush my mind, plus that would be hella expensive.my family and the others that know me are expecting me to pursue writing, but writing isnt something i want to rely on despite the fact that i would likely have a position in one of the top uni in our country if i choose to continue the latter idea. i seriously dont know what to do anymore...

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LunnyLynne #1 Apr 1, 2016 06:17:22

I feel you on that. I think that's a major concern that almost everyone goes through. Personally, i think that while it's important to follow a path you'll enjoy , it's also important to know your limits. That being said, the easiest way I found to choose a career path is imagining your daily life in that career 15 years from now. I'm someone who loves things like art, history, languages, philosophy, etc. However, I couldn't see myself working in those areas because it solely depends on you, your creativity and stuff - unless I became a teacher, which also isn't something I'm interested in. So, I went into science. I'm planning on doing lab research. It's something I enjoy (though not as much as the other stuff), and I think it's a lifestyle I'd ease into better in the future. Hope you can make a decision you're happy with. And don't get too stressed out, if it doesn't work out it's never too late to try again. I know plenty of people who are drastically changing their career paths well in their 40's. Take care

Cornerstone #2 Mar 31, 2016 20:37:05

As someone who's in Med school and see as I future residency psychiatric, I had the same fear as you have right now, like, I'm in my fifth year already and I still consider to drop out because it's really stressful and you give 80% of your social life to study this and sometimes I want to cry because I miss my parents and my siblings so much but this is what I look myself in five years, studying more to become a phychiatrist or being in a sub residency on infectology, and that's the path I choose because I want it and I really appreciate the effort my sprints and doing for me to be here so I try always to have good grades (and I do) and make em proud. I think you should think about yourself in five years, see in what you feel more comfortable, not less terrify Because that's what we always look for just to end up working in jobs we don't like. Plus, I was thinking that my first year too, about how long this will take and now I feel like time went away too quickly lol

CaptSunRiser #3 Mar 31, 2016 19:33:09

Why wouldn't you pursue writing? Just asking out of curiosity, but because writing encompasses so much. I mean ... a major part of my career is just writing. I write website copytext. Brochure copytext. I blog. I write applications for funding grants. I write reports. Letters. A major part of my job involved nothing more than writing. And I need to do very similar things, if not identical things, that I do when I write stories. If your family are expecting you to pursue writing, what stops you from doing it?

And if you want to go into the psychiatric fields, why not combine the two? Start up a mental health blog, talk about psychiatric issues, use your education to write self-help books. Or even write stories with a lot of psychology and psychiatry in them. Doing one does not prevent you from doing the other.