Don’t know where to go with my degree
Hello Everyone,
For the sake of privacy I am using a Bruner account, but I wanted to come in here and ask about the different career options there are with kinesiology. I am a kinesiology major who was recently have been on the pre-PT track then with to pre-PA track due to a more aligned career goal of medicine. I have taken a one of the prerequisite courses for the PA track (I guess not many I’m going into my sophomore year) and was really set into going to PA school. So far I have a 4.0 gpa which sounds like a flex but it honestly does not translate to anything I’m doing in the real world
Now we fast forward a month after my freshman year (This May) and I started an EMT job to get some experience. By all means, this has been the most stressful, unlikable, and upside down flip of how I thought the career of medicine would be like. I am constantly stressed, anxious, and a bad EMT and the job is just so hard on me. I had a really bad call not to long ago which made me decide to come on here and ask for some advice because as soon as that call finished, I decided to start looking for different careers.
Now here I am today, still working trying my best to stay up float and conquer the hardships. I have been told that I can’t quit and I should keep going because it will get easier, but it honestly feels like it won’t. The work environment in general between other providers has been questionable, and I have been trying my best to kill with kindness but they honestly just don’t like me (I’m 19 M Mexican in a predominantly older white agency but not sure if that means anything).
For more on the kinesiology side, I am a big fan of the bioscience behind body parts and athletics and I’m planning on taking more courses surrounding that topic. I am a very active person, love going to the gym and playing soccer as well as coaching a youth soccer team (volunteer) which I feel like all relate to the degree a little bit. But other than that I haven’t really explored much about kinesiology. I heard about a career is exercise physiology which sounds cool and interesting, but I’m honestly not sure that this point.
Anyways sorry about the rant, but I wanted to know if it’s worth continuing this job and any job related to emergency medicine. In general this job is making me start to hate medicine as a whole slowly, but I’m in a constant battle to convince myself that I still like medicine. I’m just lost tbh.
TL:DR - Sophomore in college majoring in kinesiology was Pre-PA but now contemplating switching tracks to an actual kinesiology related field.