As you already know, Florida's Real State market is really hot. Most "idiots" I know think that I'm crazy becuase I left loans to go to school for 8 yrs? :goodvibes:

Medical school may be 12 years (~16 for me ) by life is EVERY day!!! I just look at it as a "job" for which I'll be paid little but will enjoy, some days, a LOT!!!! In the meantime, I'll keep "Livin my life like it's golden"!!!!!!

Hi,

I know how you feel. My mom is not very supportive. Actually she really does not say anything. She skips over the discussion. My hubby and sister are my support and backbone. I just don't tell anyone anymore. I am sooo tired of getting the :yikes: and tired of explaining myself. I just tell them I am undecided.

Well at least we have eachother right? :grouphug:

That's funny that the above poster said, "my mom skips over the discussion"--that's exactly what mine does! In fact, if the topic of med school comes up on the phone when she and my father are on, she hangs up!

Crazy! My parents were terribly unsupportive when I told them I was not going to be practicing law (I did graduate from law school but immediately went to a post-bacc.) They were annoyed about it for about 2 years. Now, they're starting to be neutral, but they still think I'm nuts.

-Law

You would think that parents would support you in anything you choose to study. One thing is to guide us, but another thing is to tell you that you are wasting your time.

Well, the market here will go down one day. All these people that are making mega bucks, will not longer make anything one day....and me? Oh yeah, the crazy one that spent yrs in school? Well, I'll have a decent secure job, stable income, a biz, and I'll be watching beautiful sunsets knowing that people will always have teeth, and will always come to me! :yes:

Wow, this is somewhat funny.
I thought I was the only one with a family that is not ultra-supportive of the whole med school thing.
My parents are not against it or anything, but, this is really weird, my mother keeps saying that I can't be a doctor because I'm afraid of insects! (I really don't like insects and I get very scared around them - like heart pounding and everything :boggled: ) but that has nothing to do with medicine, and my mom keeps implying that since I can't handle that aspect of "nature", I can't handle like sick people or something!
Plus, I think that they are afraid that I will graduate college with no "useful" degree and never make it to medical school, thereby "ruining" my future!

:scratchchin:

:boggled: but ok! I also have the unsupportive family thing. My future mother/father in laws don't respond much about my choice in education. My fiance is a cop and 10 years older, so they look at me like a young(27?) divorced mom, I guess using him for my dream. They pay no attention to my success in college, only the fact that he will support me for another 9 years. Not to mention that I will make triple his income. They just care about now. I guess it's because his dad is a retired cop and his mom worked in a bank. Maybe they don't understand that not just anybody can be a doctor. Maybe they don't understand what it takes and what I have and how hard it is to bacome a doctor. Not to mention how rewarding I KNOW it will be. I think I would get more respect if I were still a waitress, rather than working towards an MD. Funny how that is, but like said before, we'll see in the long run. I'll be screaming HAAA NOW WHAT!!! Inside of course Don't ya all wish ya could fast forward to see all of the negative peoples reactions when were all doctors and HAPPY!!! I mean it takes rather smart people to be doctors, does that not account for anything to these people? :banghead: That's ok, we'll all be laughing inside one day :laughing: !!!!! Take care!

Lawtomd
Why did you go to law school if you wanted to be a doctor?

I think part of the deal is fear, they don't want to admit there is more out there than what they are doing and if you change something that puts them outside of their comfort zone. I come from a huge extended family ( I think Jeff Foxworthy used us for his comedy routine) and am one of the few to graduate from high school and the first to go to university (not to mention still have all my own teeth!).
You shoulda heard the razzing I used to get at Xmas about how I was wasting my life at school and should be working in the real world!! Ack... I don't wanna pick blueberries for the rest of my life thank you very much!
As they say... the best revenge is success :rotfl: go for it!!

From someone in the same boat, I really appreciate hearing this and knowing I'm not the only one dealing with reactions from the rest of the world about how crazy I must be to go back to school for so long, or about how I must be avoiding the "real" world by trying to pursue medicine.

I've also taken comfort in hearing about other woman with graduate degrees or other careers who are "giving that up" and going for their dreams to be a doctor. Personally, I'm about to finish law school and realized from almost day one that it wasn't what I wanted to do, but at that point I was stubborn and just stuck it out. For me, the decision to go to law school was partly because I thought it was too late to pursue medicine (because I'd already finished by BA at that point). I also didn't have a real idea about what legal practice involved and thought it would be satisfying, but haven't found it to be so, for me.

I guess for some of us, the journey is more of a winding and looping sort of road, one that's taken many detours along the way, and I just have to learn to be ok with that. :scratchchin: