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Vespucci

Vespucci

I just graduated today. I'm 33 years old and about the only thing I've done professionally is go to school. With the exception of a stint in the Navy, I am starting my first real and not a stepping stone job. This job is sort of just post graduate training, too, now that I think about it. And, as I was sitting there listening to them call out the names for diplomas, I was thinking to myself that to do the kind of stuff I want to do, I probably need to go back and get another degree. Forty-five is still young enough to be just finishing school, right? Am I bringing shame on my family by getting too much education?
 
Go for it!
I was in my mid 30's before I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, and went back to school.
So what do you want to be when you grow up?
 
been there done that Vespucci...my first degree came at age 29...biology, specialty in wildlife management...that got me a job but not enough money to live the way I wanted so I went back to school at 35 and got my Mechanical Engineering degree 8 months before I turned 40 and I can still retire at 60...that's less than 3 months...

never be ashamed of your education...if I put all my time in college together, it comes out to be 13 years...and thats with no post graduate work...
 
FORSHAME!!!! FOOOOOOORRRSSSHHHAAAAAMMMMEEEEE! Nah, I'm just joking. It's your life, not your families, do what YOU want to do, it's the only thing that will bring you happieness in this short stint we call life.
 
Thanks guys. Good perspective.

OrigamiRN, I want to be a burn surgeon, but a particular type that does the functional and cosmetic rehab after the skin grafts have healed. As of a year ago there are only four guys doing that, but I got to work with two of them and I think it's just the canary's teeth. So that's going to work out to be 5-6 years for surgery residency, 2 years for a plastic surgery fellowship, 1-2 years for a burn/critical care fellowship, and 2-3 years for a phd assuming I don't need to do some post grad training in research. Ten to thirteen more years doesn't sound too bad I guess. At least now I'll be getting paid a little instead of paying them.
 
Never be ashamed to further yourself - it's the f**kwits who can't be bothered to learn things and put people down because of it who should be ashamed! Congrats buddy and I hope you go far in whatever you do.
 
texas blues said:
I still haven't figured out what I want to do when I grow up. You have time compadre.

Cheers, TB.
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The weird thing about it is that you don't have to figure it out cos you'll never grow up...

Vespucci said:
I want to be a burn surgeon, but a particular type that does the functional and cosmetic rehab after the skin grafts have healed. As of a year ago there are only four guys doing that, but I got to work with two of them and I think it's just the canary's teeth. So that's going to work out to be 5-6 years for surgery residency, 2 years for a plastic surgery fellowship, 1-2 years for a burn/critical care fellowship, and 2-3 years for a phd assuming I don't need to do some post grad training in research. Ten to thirteen more years doesn't sound too bad I guess. At least now I'll be getting paid a little instead of paying them.
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Hey, colleague! Go your way. It wouldn't be my way though. I was glad to get outta those residencies. I had six years of internal medicine, one year of surgery and one year of family medicine. And that's what I do now. And I'm happy that there are the specialists I can transfer my patients to. I was tired to be the "circus clown" in the residencies. Now I am my own selfemployed flee-circus ringmaster. That medal has two sides though.
 
Six years of internal medicine? You are a saint. Two months and I almost became an alcoholic (slight exaggeration).
 
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