Veeky Forums career thread

Any med school bros have any tips for a premed?

Everyone on fit is some STEM jerk-off, why bother asking.

Healthcare consultant

Want to switch tracks and pursue DPT / phd

Software engineer, roast me

>>what is radiation
???

Your job is dominated by monopolies and you probably will have to sell your boipussy for rent

nursing user here.

Your job is dominated by boipussi and you will have to play monopoly for rent.

Investment banker
>still fucking depressed though

get all 100% in as many things as possible also volunteer and stand out in interviews wear something professional but different like a white suit with red glasses. CARS is a killer on mcat. And when you explain stuff try to talk for as long as possible by breaking the question into categories.

Literally every industry job.

Your boipussy is dominated by rent and you'll probably have to sell monopoly for a job

Just because she said she doesn't love you anymore?

Your monopoly is dominated by boipussy, and youll probably have to sell your rent for a job

no
it's because there still is no she. i have high standards
also the people i work with are all normies and annoying but fuck it gotta make money i guess

boipussy

High school seniorfag here, I legitimately don't know what I want to study. I've been debating either going to medicine, or engineering. I ultimately want to feel that I'm making a difference in the work I want to do.

Software development. I travel around the US fixing pajeet code

>med school
>oh boy I sure love DEBT

medicine
>short term change to a single person who listens to your advise
engineering
>long term change but no one knows who the fuck you are

You don't have a career, you're in university.

If you're actually doing a pre-med course, it's a fucking terrible choice by the way. Med schools don't give a shit what your degree is as long as your marks are good enough, and if you don't get into actual medicine or change your mind later on, you've just wasted a heap of money on a degree that gives you no real qualifications.

Do a degree that gets you some clinical experience.

Any lawyer anons here?
In cc in California atm and want to transfer out to either UCI, UCSB, or UCLA as a literature or linguistics major.
I know that law school requires extensive reading and writing so I figure that these majors would both prepare me enough if I choose to go down that route.
Any advice is appreciated. pls no bully

>Too much studying to work out, barring a morning run or never talking to someone outside of class/research/clinical experience again

>no time for exercise
>wasting time on Veeky Forums

lmaoing at ur life.

that's pretty good, you'll get bulk money

my career is geophysicist (focusing on seismology), currently in the tail end of honours. It was hard but you can get bulk money depending on how the mining industry's going, and I really enjoy research in this field, lots of untapped potential

Actual doctor here. Change your major and do physical therapy or something instead. This fucking sucks and is killing my gains. I'm sort of thinking about killing myself, desu.

CPA. I work all the time for low pay! Don't do it kids.

Choose another career.

Don't do medicine.

>inserts entire problem verbatim in Wolfram
kek

Accounting. It's not a very fulfilling profession,

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and study something that
actually helps people like becoming a doctor or a plastic surgeon or something. Probably not smart enough to be one tho ;_;

Not sure if medicine is really that bad or if these guys just want to keep their labor market tighter

I'm going into finance, am I fucked or what?

medicine is cool. requires more dediation but is more rewarding than most fields

I was planning on accounting until i became I'm pretty rich (250k a year alone) at the age of 26 so hey you could always change your profession by learning a skill in your spare time

Philosophy and Russian double major eat my dick hahaha

Do i go to law school or join the military? Im a criminal justice major :( but i have a 3.9 can probably get a decent lsat

Quite literally more rewarding
Also an enormous pain in the dick

got a masters? what did you get your bachelor in?
currently last year in economics 3.75 GPA, is it feasible to go into finance after it?

Medicine is honestly a fucking horrible career. THe money is good, but a significant amount goes towards insurance, and the amount of time you're dedicated towards your career is insane.

People always say they want to be doctors, but don't get that being a doctor becomes your entire life, it's not like other jobs where you just go home and are done for the day. That being said, this stuff becomes obvious in med school, if you're not passionate about it, you don't get through. Also, if you're premed, you're not doing medicine. You're doing an undergrad degree that's not really that much more intense than any other.

If you love it, you'll enjoy the career, but it's a really hard field

Actually studying Law.

What country?

Investor

law you retard
you have a 3.9 how is it a hard choice
the military is for the poor/dumb
finance? I had experience with a club that worked with investment banking so the connections and experience got me a great job early on
got a benz and everything but still sad

Wannabee Live Sound Engineer, do a few gigs here and there, looking to get more.
Just applied for a part time job at McDonalds, trying to get on the late night shift where hardly anyone will be around

What's a good undergraduate degree for premed that's actually useful if you don't get into med school?

I work at costco, i'm 27 with no prospects and i hate my life. Lifting is the only escape i have from existential sadness.

Moms dead dads disabled. I commute to uni. In total our household income is probably 20k. I work part time and will be graduating with loans

Law school tuition in Canada is at least 20k and id have to move. So idk. I also hear Ontario has a shortage of articlimg positions

Your career is shit. I know because I'm a hair's breadth from finishing med school.

Tell me what color eyes you have and I'll spill the details.

No loans*

Law school seems risky

do it man

PGY1 resident in medicine. yes your career does suck

Brazil, unfortunately.

I just started my first semester as a CS major in some rinky dink state school in the farmlands of Pennsylvania. I think I might change to chemistry and specialize in pharmacology.
>will this school prepare me as a software engineer
and/or
>should I just switch to chem.

Its not bad but dont do it for the money they dont make much after the time and debt is calculated in

Doesnt exist

Construction oversight, mainly deskjockey, wish I was in the field more. Pays good though

Switch to chem unless you're some kind of cs whiz. Way too much specialized competition for you to get a decent job if you're not.

>but don't get that being a doctor becomes your entire life

This could be said about almost every profession. My mother is a teacher, which in theory should be easy but its a living hell. Annoying kids yelling all day mentally exhaust her. Trying to teach kids who literally doesn't give a shit and can barely read is extremely painful and tiring. Attend to countless school events, prepare exams, prepare every single shit you would never think of, give grades, talk with parents, take responsibility if something goes wrong. It's a hell for shit salary and no respect.
Being a doctor is probably the most respected thing you can do for a good salary. You can be a GP and basically prescribe painkillers in your entire life for a decent living

I didn't graduate from a top uni but two of our finance majors got jobs at Goldman Sachs and are getting their masters paid for, so maybe you should've tried harder. otherwise you're going to end up in insurance.

Any degree with a significant focus on clinical experience is useful, as assuming you've done the clinical component of the degree (which is usually honours year), you've displayed a skill that is harder to teach and insanely important.

Shit like pre-med just teaches you how to get into med school, but isn't even that great at doing it.

Honestly, pick a degree you're passionate about, and make it your life for a while. Be involved in shit on campus, volunteer as a research assistant, do other volunteer work around something that interests you. It increases your chances of not burning out, because you can dedicate a lot of time to the field without it feeling like a chore, and have a career as a backup if you change your mind or don't get in.

If you have to do a med related degree, do nursing or something. There's a good focus on operating in a clinical setting and caring for patients, something that stands you in good stead, and it's a pretty solid career on its own. I know a fair few doctors who did nursing (they specialised, so they're not just normal RN's, but can work in places like ICU or psychiatric wards) and have said it transferred well. One guy I know came from a masters degree in psych. A good degree is honestly just one you enjoy and can get good marks in, that's applicable to other careers too.

There's not a single answer to that question really, just that pre-med is a poor option.

It really couldn't be said about every vocation.

That being said, teachers are worked stupidly hard for the pay they get, and I agree completely they deserve more respect.

I wouldn't underestimate the stress that being a GP still comes with, either. You can lose your license for fucking up or prescribing irresponsibly, if it's a long term thing.

>Network consultant
Spend half my time sitting on my ass starting at a PC and the other half wining and dining customer. Bad for gains.

Med student here. Not american though.

I'm currently in the middle of my course, and I've been considering going through the Steps (which are much alike local Brazilian residency steps). I'm already reviewing pathoma, DIT etc. However, every time I get some input on how residents lives are like, I see lots of bad rap like your post... How time-demanding and bureaucratic it is... Is this what MD life is like in USA? Sounds kind of bad, especially the insurance deal...

On the other hand, at least it encourages me a bit more on keep learning german well.

>if you're not passionate about it, you don't get through

Probably about 1/3 people that graduated in my med school class wouldn't go through with it again if we could go back in time. They all graduated and were able make it through, they're just unhappy now and burdened with too much debt to get off of this ride.

It really sucks. Particularly inpatient medicine. It's filled with non-doctor cunts that have never actually practiced medicine that come up with GREAT IDEAS to improve care. Most of them don't improve care, and are just another fucking checkbox on your never ending checklist of bullshit to do before you can actually see and treat your fucking patients. Non-doctors have ruined medicine and made it an insufferable field to work in. Doctors let them do it though.

In an Applied Experimental Psychology M.A. program right now. The more I think about it, I'd like to work with animals.

Physics

boy go for investment banking
I went to a city college but because i interned and had actual experience with stocks i beat all the "Chads" at ivy schools

Lift while you sit there

Dont listen to this idiot the classes you would have to take for premed are still required regardless of degree and are around 60 credits at least so if you major in something else you will end up having to take 180-200 credit hours which is just impossible if you want to graduate on time and aren't a literal genius

Debating if I want to be a petroleum engineer or not

is there any hope, only thing i care about is fitness anymore. Please advise me wise Veeky Forumsizens

didn't know premed was a career

>basing your degree on a fuel that will be gone in ~2years tops
Wew lad

>>~2 years tops
No fucking way oil is going to be gone in 2 years

A friend of mine is a petroleum engineer and he makes money hand over fist, that being said he bitched constantly about how stressful and hard the schooling was for it.

> I see lots of bad rap like your post... How time-demanding and bureaucratic it is... Is this what MD life is like in USA? Sounds kind of bad, especially the insurance deal...

I'm not US personally, so I can't say for sure, but from my understand it's pretty much the same deal.

Medicine is insanely time consuming. The vast majority of your life will be doing things related to the field for a fair while (it settles down a bit once you're in your career, but it's still hard, particularly if you're in a hospital).

Insurance sucks for doctors pretty much wherever you are I think.

True, after med school is a whole different matter. I just noticed that a huge amount of the people in the first year of my class, weren't there after that.

I get it's hard to say if you're passionate about it until you're in it (or passionate enough rather), but it's stupid to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a pre-med degree, only to find out that you hate med school, and then have no real other options.

The classes you take for premed are undergrad degrees, you're not working in your graduate school. Once you get into med school, you'll do the same courses as everyone else.

Keep trying to defend your shitty choice in degrees though buddy.

Lad there's no way you know that for sure

>It really couldn't be said about every vocation

It depends on how you're looking at it. Every profession that involves other people needs responsibility. And there are countless jobs where youre expected to work at home/off-hours and you have to constantly train yourself if you want to keep your job (for example programming)

>You can lose your license for fucking up or prescribing irresponsibly, if it's a long term thing.

Yeah, that's a risk. Don't know how insurance and the law can cover mistakes, guess it also depends on countries. It's hard to fuck up that much as a GP though when it comes to prescribing meds.

I'm currently 3rd year med student, we can agree that teaching sucks at least

I think the main difference between pre-med and med is the volume. I wouldn't say the actual stuff is harder to understand

Blue collar guy, functional strength is not a meme.

You are dumbest fuck i swear

Indie game developer
Gym every morning, game development all day til bed
Not too shabby
Except for the crippling loneliness

In the subway i see guys who decorate their hardhat. do you know people who do it?

I have a bachelors in physics and I am currently trying to find a job before loans are due.

TFW my part time IT job at school makes me more qualified for jobs than a bachelors in physics ever will, and if I even want to do anything in physics I most likely need a masters or a PhD

Thats not what I'm talking about in undergrade you would still have to take those classes regardless or the other degree you get so getting a degree in somethung other than bio or chem is going to make it extremely challenging there is no degree called "pre-med"

The city frowns on that faggotry.

>I just noticed that a huge amount of the people in the first year of my class, weren't there after that

That's extremely unusual for a US MD program. If you went Caribbean or DO, then that's where you fucked up.

>what do you call someone who drops out of med school?
>a dentist
>what do you call someone who can't pass the actuarial exams?
>a CPA

I fucking loved seeing all the girls who joined premed because of greys anatomy realize it was actual work and not a fictional tv show. you can't be a lazy dumbass if you want to get to med school, so don't waste your time.

Some schools do have "pre-professional" degrees now, that are basically biology degrees with shit like medical ethics and whatnot added on.

>Every profession that involves other people needs responsibility.

Definitely, no arguments there, it's just that the consequences are way worse for being irresponsible in medicine than say teaching. You're also held way more responsible than pretty much any other health provider.

>It's hard to fuck up that much as a GP though when it comes to prescribing meds.

Might be different in US, but in my country prescribing medications is pretty heavily controlled. A doctor who constantly throws out painkillers to everyone is likely to get investigated for it, and if he's being stupid about it, can lose his license or ability to prescribe them.

Wow you sure got me.

Not US, I did say that in my post. There's a significant amount of people who go into med for money or because it's so hyped up by everywhere, and then get in, find out that it's an insane amount of work and drop out.

Training to be an auto mechanic, hoping to move to boat mechanic one day

>I just noticed that a huge amount of the people in the first year of my class, weren't there after that.

That's literally every single major on the Earth from art to applied math. Some people are not sure whether they truly want to do this in their entire life. Stop looking this hard for things that can make you feel superior holy shit

Mate oil is used in
>plastics
>majority of cars
>gasoline
>asphalt
>almost all synthetic materials
>lotions and creams
Theres no way it would be gone that fast without a miracle, or a devastation on the economy