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Here's a little about me. I am 21 years old and live in Gulf Shores, Alabama. For most of my life I have been dead set on either becoming an Epidemiologist or working with computers. I decided at some point during High School that I wanted to finish early, and so I received my GED a few months after turning 17, and immediately went into college for Computer Programming. After a year in college I was convinced that the military was the best route to go to get schooling paid for, so I took the ASVAB and received an 93 out of a possible 99, so I went with Counter-Intelligence. During my enlistment in the military I went through the combat medicine training and was absolutely fascinated by it. I became obsessed with learning about the human body and spent any downtime reading anything I could find about it or medicine. I even considered changing my M.O.S. to Operating Room Technician, but I unfortunately received a medical discharge due to frequent sleep-walking and sleep-talking. I was essentially unsuitable for deployment.
After returning home just shy of a year of enlistment I took whatever jobs I could find, and started planning a more longterm career. So I decided that I would try to get my feet wet in some field of medicine. I ended up enrolling in a local technical college and received my EMT-B certification. Unfortunately I was financially derailed shortly after and had to pursue a more immediate career, which happened to be in sales, not the most nurturing place for someone interested in medicine. Luckily my boss is one of the nicest women alive, and she just happens to have a Masters Degree in Nursing (her husband is also a pharmacist) so she has helped nurture that interest in medicine. Here I am today, preparing to enter into a two-year pre-medical program with a transition to a BS in something relevant to medicine. I volunteer at the Red Cross in their Disaster Relief program, and also work with a local church group that works in a few nursing homes in the area. The closest medical school is The University of South Alabama.
So, with a GED and such a different work and educational background, is it an unrealistic dream to want to work in the medical field as a Doctor? I know that I am capable of scoring well on the MCAT, the practice tests I've taken have shown me as much.
Hopefully I am posting this in the correct forum and haven't violated any rules.
Thanks;
Thales
After returning home just shy of a year of enlistment I took whatever jobs I could find, and started planning a more longterm career. So I decided that I would try to get my feet wet in some field of medicine. I ended up enrolling in a local technical college and received my EMT-B certification. Unfortunately I was financially derailed shortly after and had to pursue a more immediate career, which happened to be in sales, not the most nurturing place for someone interested in medicine. Luckily my boss is one of the nicest women alive, and she just happens to have a Masters Degree in Nursing (her husband is also a pharmacist) so she has helped nurture that interest in medicine. Here I am today, preparing to enter into a two-year pre-medical program with a transition to a BS in something relevant to medicine. I volunteer at the Red Cross in their Disaster Relief program, and also work with a local church group that works in a few nursing homes in the area. The closest medical school is The University of South Alabama.
So, with a GED and such a different work and educational background, is it an unrealistic dream to want to work in the medical field as a Doctor? I know that I am capable of scoring well on the MCAT, the practice tests I've taken have shown me as much.
Hopefully I am posting this in the correct forum and haven't violated any rules.
Thanks;
Thales