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Career Options. Sunday, September 10, 2006

i vaguely remember being in high school and taking a career aptitude test and a career preference test. if i'm not mistaken, my aptitude was highest in mathematics and language; however, my preference was strong for the sciences.

here i am now, with a medical degree, looking back at a quarter life that would have been a whole new world had i decided to do what i was good at rather than what i wanted. i don't think i regret having gone through everything that has made(or unmade) me what i am now; i just can't help but imagine being otherwise.

yesterday i made my dad and myself an open-faced sandwich. not to toot my own horn, but i think it was pretty good. it was a pretty simple snack but somehow outside the box (off the plate?). had i had a degree in culinary arts, would i be more successful as a chef or a restaurateur as i would be as a medical doctor?

in college and in medical school, i would play around with computations that most of my peers needed to memorize formulas of. they just made sense to me, so i knew the formulas even before they were taught. it was one of the most natural things in the world to me, like hitting a volleyball over the net when the ball came within close proximity.

i've been told by some of my teachers and professors that my works were such a joy to read. i must say that their compliments were quite flattering, especially since these were some of the few professors in college that i respected and that in high school almost everyone of my schoolmates was proficient in english and has been drilled with writing and speaking exercises since preschool.

in retrospect, i loved medical school; medical clerkship; and my short stint in medical internship. i know i will love my medical career. no regrets, really. and who says i can't be a chef? or a mathematician? or a writer? i bet, given some practice, i am already as close to being all of these as a worm is to soil.

Ana played hooky at 4:50 PM