Hey !
I was just admitted into a prestigious med school. Where i’m from, theres the option after high school to apply directly to med, which will make you first do a preparatory year , to then start the med track directly after.
Admission in it basically garanties med after as all students in this program get directly funnelled into the program. What is hard was entering into this program, which required high CASPER and success in a series of interview.
I recently got the news that I was taken in this program, basically a guarantee for a safe highly viewed job.
The problem is the more I did biology the more I realized it really wasn’t my passion. While I was near the top of my class in it, memorizing lists and lists of facts over and over felt so under stimulating and in a way, almost wasteful.
While I love helping people , volunteering and I consider myself someone pretty moral, I never really knew what to do with my life ; being a performant student and good at studying, I set my goal to med school not out of true passion but simply out of convenience and small interest for health sciences.
But recently , I befriended someone who introduced me to engineering. I was always really good at physics , but never did much out of it, seeing it as something so theoretical (the teacher never showed us practical examples). His passion for it was so strong I couldn’t help but be also interested . I started to read more and more about it and I find it genuinely so interesting and inspiring.
I also got taken to some pretty prestigious engineering school.
Now i’m faced with a hard choice.
Do I go in the med track, a safe job guarantee but not that strong of a passion (though maybe it’ll grow on me)
Or choose engineering , which I do seem to suddenly really like, but with the current state of AI, the job market and everything around it so much less job security?
That’s what truly scares me, the job insecurity that seems to come from AI.
I don’t want to reject médecine , to end up struggling entering the job market after my engineering studies even if I like them. I’m scared of not being able to reget into med, especially considering the fact that engineering naturally gives significantly lower GPA.
I’m scared of making a choice i’ll regret and it paralyzes me .
What should I do?
(Sorry for my bad english, it’s not my first language)