From: John Curtis Gibson (johncurtis1541@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2008 - 14:33:00 ARST
US's MD market is kind of messy these days. A 40 yo woman in some Med school wrote this essay,
http://www.mommd.com/40medschool.shtml
, she said she once lived in the homeless shelter, with her children. The father didn't do any thing. I can not image the situation.
18 year old straight A's from high school ... hmm
US only looks at college grades. 22 year old college straight A seniors are rare rare.
U. Wisconsin med school new students' average GPA is 3.7 . Maybe 2/3 of GPA 3.7 students are turned down year after year. If I work for Harvard Med school teaching hospital's computer networking, they will take that as a Plus. My classmates in Biology volunteered in paramedics in the local county hospital. How good is that if they get an MD who fixes computer problem instead of calling the tech support when the patient is dieing on the table.
But, again, the globe produced 18000 CCIE's in 15 or 20 years. That's about the number of MD's produced in the US along EACH year. Family doctors and psychiatrists and pediatricians don't necessary make more than CCIEs. My family doctor and the psychiatrist I met 2 months before I got my CCIE work in very small offices.
My problem is money and age.
I wanted to get the green card and worked for my company. I got the number almost the same time I got the green card.
John
Gary Duncanson <gary.duncanson@googlemail.com> wrote: I think I understand. You're not sure what to do now? Well...I think time
and money will probably be big factors. If I could do it all again I would
try to get into medical school but by the time I realised it was something
that I would really like to do I was already too old, and I was younger than
you then. I don't know what entry criteria to medical school is in the
United States but in the UK the last time I checked they do not actively
encourage mature entrants to medical schools as they are awash with straight
'A' 18 year old entrants anyway and have to turn thousands of them down due
to a small number of places for new medical students each year. That's a
lot of very bright kids with hopes of being a doctor dashed forever. If I
was a millionaire I might consider going back to school to do it if I felt I
could get in and perhaps become a GP in a quite town someplace who knows.
But I'm not a millionaire yet. Are you? John a career in medicine takes
years out of your life and it's going to cost a LOT of money. I don't know
your circumstances but have you really thought this through very carefully?
Five years at least I would have thought for med school. You could be
earning as a CCIE during that period. Didn't you spend 6 plus attempts to
get your number? Wouldn't you be better off throwing all of your energies
into your career as a fledgling CCIE?
How about working in Networking for a few years and finishing your biology
degree part time? Then see if medicine still grabs you and you can afford
it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Curtis Gibson"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:53 AM
Subject: Have the number for 4 months, finished 1 semester in college as
freshman, GPA 3.70
> Biology major, 5 classes 11 credits in one semester. I can be on my way to
> become a MD. But I need more money for that. Now I work half time making a
> quarter of what CCIE is worth. It is winter vacation now. I went to see a
> recruiting agent today in Boston. They were confused about my situation. I
> managed to tell them I want to work for a hospital's IT/networking,
> because that will look good in my medical school application. Now I am
> home and I can't decide which way I want to go - becoming a doctor or a
> network engineer. My title right now is software engineer, but I am more
> like a network engineer. 2 months before I got the number, my girlfriend
> dumped me. I used my girl friend's last name when I applied for the green
> card. So, her last name became my legal last name. She couldn't stand the
> stress when all I talked about was CCIE lab for more than 2 years spending
> lots of money and still couldn't tell her how certain I was about passing
> the exam. Now, I am 33, and I am a
> college freshman. I got straight A's in science classes. I just went to
> school to withdraw from the university. It is a top 200 school (in the US)
> but given my grade I could transfer to top a 100 school.
>
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