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I'm afraid I can't relate. I initially invested a lot of time in my first choice of career (over a decade) and just left last year. I walked out the door, said
by vouaobrasil 2y ago
I'm afraid I can't relate. I initially invested a lot of time in my first choice of career (over a decade) and just left last year. I walked out the door, said goodbye, and the next day it was out of my mind. That being said, I think the key is keeping a strong mental separation between "passion for a field of work" and "predetermined path by society to actualize that passion". The latter, in my opinion, is something that one should never get attached to.
- esafak 2y agoIf you wanted to become a doctor, say, and flunked out of school, how would you find another path to become a doctor; start again in another country? Sometimes the cost of failure is high.
- mp05 2y agoEasy, just apply to a osteopathic medicine program.
- lostlogin 2y agoI’m not sure that works in many places outside the US. It’s viewed as alternative medicine here in New Zealand, in a similar ballpark to homeopathy, though perhaps a bit closer to conventional medicine.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoIt is, but sometimes there is no choice but to do something else. And the cost of my own "failure" was high, though I wouldn't label it as a failure. That word is barely in my vocabulary...I prefer to consider it as a learning experience.