I saw this in another healthcare bowl and wanted to know if anyone here resonated with this as well. For those of us who are not physicians, did you ever dream of going to medical school? What stopped you and are you happy where you are at now?

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I worked in pharmacy and thought about becoming a pharmacist until a couple of years at a chain and learning how much debt you get into. I'm ok where I am now, but have thought about working for a biotech company in the future.

I started out as pre-med in college. I had to drop out my second year to get a regular job to take care of my new family.

I never dreamed of going to medical school. I was never interested in the idea of blood. I will say, however that if I did go down the medicine track, I would have done neurosurgery. I am happy with my choice because I wanted to work in healthcare and I work in healthcare informatics. I did, however want to do law school and that’s still on the table for me so I wouldn’t say nothing has stopped me. I just chose a different path until I had a little bit more footing.

I had children and it was a lot to work, take care of home, and go to medical. Maybe I will go back one day when they're older

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