Decisions
My thesis, is I should look back at my life before I look forward. I’ve been thinking about a career in healthcare recently as it is a useful thing for humanity. Perhaps I have to do a further analysis the how important healthcare is vs Electricity. But I don’t know if I’m doing it , just because it sounds cool as or if I’m actually interested in it. Don’t get me wrong, people can change but have I ever even thought about doing healthcare? There was period in grade 12, where I wanted to be a physiatrist because I enjoyed talking to people, but other than that I’ve volunteered once last year with the stollery hospital I thought it would be great to serve people that were dying. Frankly speaking I haven’t really dreamt about saving lives by being a nurse or doctor. I’ve heard some people only want to be a doctor for the prestige and money, but I know that I won’t be able to operate on that. Even now, in my 21 years of my life. I’ve only taken 1 actual step outwards a career in healthcare. This thought first arose when I was reading this book, and it talked about aligning yourself to the highest possible aim that would sort of make you the man of virtue. I thought about it and MED school seems hard, and its a net positive for the world, so then why not. What I failed to consider is that
It’s not the hardest thing in the world, being a good mother or father or even a really really good engineer is just as difficult and honestly you can make anything hard if you want.
There’s other way to make a net positive impact, imagine if Henry Ford became a doctor instead of making cars? how would the doctors get to work?
Another Important consideration is what I would want todo and this whole thing started by saying look at the past, before we get into that my deeper thesis is that if I want to make a good impact on the world. I should find something I love doing, becuase I’ll be able to do it really well. If you look around there’s a lot of things that aren’t done exceptionally well.
Back to the main point of how I am going to figure out what I should exceptionally well. Looking back at life, I’ve loved talking to people and smiling, there was a period in highschool when I was shy but outside of that I was a happy talkative kid, another thing to consider is what have I done that no one told me to do, and something I’d do for no money. I write this blog, because I mess with writing, but in high school in grade 10, I had a 67. I don’t think I’ve never had a anything above a 70 on an essay.
I like showing people love, like just saying “hi” and ask people what they’ve been upto and just form personal connections. I also chose my degree because of Math, when I was 12-13 I begged my parents to put me in a coding school and I learnt how to code, the primary motivation was to make games. I didn’t make any serious money from coding until I was 18, also I hated coding for money because was it even a a labour of love? did I even care about what I was building? What I want to do is not code, but to solve a problem, and I’m down to learn anything do it.