I'm twenty-one now and have wasted much of my life, some of it being my fault, some being the fault of others:
1) Wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until already an adult. 2) Had a difficult time in primary, secondary and early stages of college due to ASD. 3) Had everything fed to me on a sliver poon and thus lack motivation. 4) Had a daughter at age twenty.
So, as of now, I am enrolled in college on an "Access to Higher Education Diploma" in science; modules in chemistry, biology and higher math (for some reason they don't offer physics directly).
My fiancée wants me to go into medicine, because of the monetary aspect, I don't really find the field interesting and probably lack the social graces to be of any use as a doctor or surgeon. I am personally more interested in physics, mathematics; cryptology and computer science.
So, what would be the best course of action for above described situation?
If you're already out of middle school(which you obviously are), it's too late. Sorry.
Brody Johnson
Wrong board. Go to /adv/ next time.
I don't know if this is bait but I'll answer,
Medicine is a long journey, and you will hate it unless you are passionate for it. For medicine you will need to take 4 years for undergraduate, another 4 years for medical school. and then one year as an intern, and minimum of 3 for residency.
PhD is similar, 4 years undergraduate, ~5 years for PhD, then maybe a post doc.
If you're interested then do STEM, there isn't a way to get into STEM, you just go to college and declare the major.
If I was you I'd just do a BS in Engineering or CS so you can provide for your family.
John Hill
>a sliver poon
Ryan Taylor
>*silver spoon Next time, I should proof read.
Jaxon Jenkins
>My fiancée wants me to go into medicine, because of the monetary aspect, Oh yes, med school is certainly not a highly competitive massive time and money investment to become a glorified drug dealer (unless you become a surgeon, which is maximum liability).
>I am personally more interested in physics Theoretical? Experimental? Applications? In any case, I wouldn't know.
>mathematics Don't do that, extremely competitive for the privilege to write papers all day without any obvious applications.
>cryptology and computer science Best route, don't go too pure, worst case you can still get a $30+/hr job only really working 3-5 hours of your 8-hour shift helping tech-incompetent idiots put together libraries into a working solution for their particular problem, which will hopefully be somewhat interesting to you.
Luis Wilson
If you're not a brainlet and care about money go for actuarial science
Cameron Young
Medical school in the UK is easier to get into, mostly because no one wants to be a medical professional one over here. Plan was to emigrate to the US, if I had gone down that route.
Well so far, and you have said CS. I guess I'll look into going into computer science then.
Thanks, guys.
Henry Williams
I have a high IQ if that counts? I've just wasted it for the majority of my life.
Nolan Morgan
High IQ doesn't mean anything if you don't do anything with it.
