Doctors.
Providing care with their wings and getting rich just like any venomous snake would do.
Being a doctor was something I never consider to have as a profession. When I was still young, being a pilot was something I wanted to be. I didn't really have a reason at first but since my father is assign at the airport, I get to go there a lot and I was always fascinated with the thought of driving a huge plane growing up. I guess every kid is fascinated with the sky and thinking that I can visit my father everyday at work made me considered being a pilot. It was a childish reason but nevertheless it was something I was sure at that time that I wanted to be. After hundreds of "pilot of the coconut" jokes, I wanted to be a computer engineer. Back in grade school, I was exposed to computer games a lot and quite frankly to a lot of electronics as well. I enjoyed the technology that the computer brought into my life, how it works, functionality, the formation, it just blew me away. Of course at that time, I didn't knew I was playing with a console that came out before I was born and getting excited of owning a Playstation when a Playstation 2 was already the cream of the crop. Throughout high school, I still wanted to be a computer engineer. I used the computer and internet so much that if I want to have something as a job, that would be dealing with computers.
Still don't have an idea what a computer engineer does. Cue Mr. Repair Man.
And as everyone knows, I turn out the be a nurse. After four years of being a bachelor of nursing with science and two board exams later, I am finally a professional nurse. Currently I am not practicing my profession. Got a lot of money problems in life and with the current scenario of nursing in the Philippines, the money is not in the bag if you are a nurse here. I still want to be a nurse, I just want to be loaded first before I become one. But while my road of being a nurse might take some time, there was a thought that I seem to have pounded over the past few weeks. I know that it might sound crazy and it might seem tad for my case, but deep inside, I have considered taking med school.
I don't even thing they are real doctors. But if you are one you can take any of them out anytime.
Throughout my high school and college life, I have kept that image of being a "smart guy". Truth be told, even during my grade school years, I was a smart guy. But from high school, it just went downhill from there. I was studying only when I needed the most or if I'm about to fail. I've always depended on my IQ in some ways but with my human shortcomings, I was more dumb rather than genius. Studying that much was just never my means of living a life to the fullest. I wanted to learn things by experience and not much with books or words. Thank God despite taking a bookish nursing course, I was able to pass it. It took a little bit of college ingenuity for me to make it but never have I relayed that much with books. But with med school, it is quite different. Being a doctor meant that you were naturally smart and knows how to drive oneself to study every night, eating books and chugging down coffee. For you to be a good doctor, you need to be a smart doctor. And on top of that, you need to have the funds to take on medicine or be that damn smart to take a scholarship. Being a doctor for some is a dream, but the road there is one topsy-turvy ride.
Checking the heartbeat of a picture of a heart for the sake of medicine.
But despite the trials of being a med student is well-documented, the end note is something that not everyone else can achieve. Simply put, being a professional doctor, a person with a PhD on the end of their name and a consultant is simply a great honor to be. It is about doing something special as a living, getting to cure sickness and save people's lives. Money will always be there, but the ability to create miracles in a daily basis is something you just can compare to any job. You can get the respect of everyone and just the fact alone that you become a doctor is already enough for people to tip their hats even if you haven't treated someone yet. I guess the credibility of being a doctor was something that captivated me. Despite earning a degree as a professional nurse, no one really gives a crap about the professionalism a nurse brings. Nurses don't get professional fees in the Philippines and with all the nurses out there, being a nurse is not much of an achievement, more of a typical stuff. You can say you're proud, I can say I'm proud, but at the end of the day, you or me is just a nurse meeting half-way the needs of life. We're living our calling but we don't have that much to be living. The complications of being a nurse is nothing new, but with medicine, no matter what, being a doctor makes you a somebody. No one will ever take you for granted.
"My stethoscope has more sponsors than you bitch!"
Everyone laughs, even my own mother, when I mention that I consider to be a doctor. My mother knows well that I am not the type of person to sit down and study for a day. And with our current financial situation, med school tuition is too much for my small middle-class family to bare, let alone the cost of books and other stuff, exams, etc. Things is, med school is quite expensive, obviously. Yeah sure being a doctor will help you live a wealthy life, but before that, your parents need to shed some money first before they can invest at you. I guess not everyone is meant to be a doctor. I guess I just look at myself lowly that I want to be somebody a decade from now. I know my friends in med school will be a bunch of rich somebodies 10 years from now, but I guess I'm just bothered with what I am going to be in the future. Reality wise, I guess I'll never be a doctor. But being a doctor just gives me that sense of purpose. I have the abilities to care for people as a doctor, I just don't know if I have the drive to be a doctor. To mold myself to be a doctor is a huge challenge and that it why I am always intimidated to all the doctors all over the world. The road, the path they took is unheard of, on for them to achieve it, I bow my head to them. It's too complicated for me and it will take some extra hard working to become one. Guess I just leave the med life to people who are smart and dedicated to cure people as their calling. I'm just fine with the serving the people and assisting the doctor job. But man, having to cure people, driving around with a neat car, going home in a nice house, getting calls from nurses and hospital directors, trips around the world, life of a doctor is a joy ride. It sure would be sweet, but at the end of the day, someone has got to be famous, which I am trying to be instead, haha!
I could still be a doctor of thugonomics. Word Life with a PhD bitches!!
Still don't have an idea what a computer engineer does. Cue Mr. Repair Man.
And as everyone knows, I turn out the be a nurse. After four years of being a bachelor of nursing with science and two board exams later, I am finally a professional nurse. Currently I am not practicing my profession. Got a lot of money problems in life and with the current scenario of nursing in the Philippines, the money is not in the bag if you are a nurse here. I still want to be a nurse, I just want to be loaded first before I become one. But while my road of being a nurse might take some time, there was a thought that I seem to have pounded over the past few weeks. I know that it might sound crazy and it might seem tad for my case, but deep inside, I have considered taking med school.
I don't even thing they are real doctors. But if you are one you can take any of them out anytime.
Throughout my high school and college life, I have kept that image of being a "smart guy". Truth be told, even during my grade school years, I was a smart guy. But from high school, it just went downhill from there. I was studying only when I needed the most or if I'm about to fail. I've always depended on my IQ in some ways but with my human shortcomings, I was more dumb rather than genius. Studying that much was just never my means of living a life to the fullest. I wanted to learn things by experience and not much with books or words. Thank God despite taking a bookish nursing course, I was able to pass it. It took a little bit of college ingenuity for me to make it but never have I relayed that much with books. But with med school, it is quite different. Being a doctor meant that you were naturally smart and knows how to drive oneself to study every night, eating books and chugging down coffee. For you to be a good doctor, you need to be a smart doctor. And on top of that, you need to have the funds to take on medicine or be that damn smart to take a scholarship. Being a doctor for some is a dream, but the road there is one topsy-turvy ride.
Checking the heartbeat of a picture of a heart for the sake of medicine.
But despite the trials of being a med student is well-documented, the end note is something that not everyone else can achieve. Simply put, being a professional doctor, a person with a PhD on the end of their name and a consultant is simply a great honor to be. It is about doing something special as a living, getting to cure sickness and save people's lives. Money will always be there, but the ability to create miracles in a daily basis is something you just can compare to any job. You can get the respect of everyone and just the fact alone that you become a doctor is already enough for people to tip their hats even if you haven't treated someone yet. I guess the credibility of being a doctor was something that captivated me. Despite earning a degree as a professional nurse, no one really gives a crap about the professionalism a nurse brings. Nurses don't get professional fees in the Philippines and with all the nurses out there, being a nurse is not much of an achievement, more of a typical stuff. You can say you're proud, I can say I'm proud, but at the end of the day, you or me is just a nurse meeting half-way the needs of life. We're living our calling but we don't have that much to be living. The complications of being a nurse is nothing new, but with medicine, no matter what, being a doctor makes you a somebody. No one will ever take you for granted.
"My stethoscope has more sponsors than you bitch!"
Everyone laughs, even my own mother, when I mention that I consider to be a doctor. My mother knows well that I am not the type of person to sit down and study for a day. And with our current financial situation, med school tuition is too much for my small middle-class family to bare, let alone the cost of books and other stuff, exams, etc. Things is, med school is quite expensive, obviously. Yeah sure being a doctor will help you live a wealthy life, but before that, your parents need to shed some money first before they can invest at you. I guess not everyone is meant to be a doctor. I guess I just look at myself lowly that I want to be somebody a decade from now. I know my friends in med school will be a bunch of rich somebodies 10 years from now, but I guess I'm just bothered with what I am going to be in the future. Reality wise, I guess I'll never be a doctor. But being a doctor just gives me that sense of purpose. I have the abilities to care for people as a doctor, I just don't know if I have the drive to be a doctor. To mold myself to be a doctor is a huge challenge and that it why I am always intimidated to all the doctors all over the world. The road, the path they took is unheard of, on for them to achieve it, I bow my head to them. It's too complicated for me and it will take some extra hard working to become one. Guess I just leave the med life to people who are smart and dedicated to cure people as their calling. I'm just fine with the serving the people and assisting the doctor job. But man, having to cure people, driving around with a neat car, going home in a nice house, getting calls from nurses and hospital directors, trips around the world, life of a doctor is a joy ride. It sure would be sweet, but at the end of the day, someone has got to be famous, which I am trying to be instead, haha!
I could still be a doctor of thugonomics. Word Life with a PhD bitches!!
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