The reason I chose medicine

I actually started college in August of 2005 right after graduating highschool. At the time I thought I was going to school to become an electical engineer.  This was a good choice for me because I was always good at math and liked it decently enough.  However, after I started taking the required classes and as the semesters went by I began to realize something wasn't right and this path might not be for me.  I had started working at Central Georgia Cancer Care around the same time I began college, so I was around medicine almost everyday and the wheels or opportunity began to turn.  I also began to notice that most of the T.V. shows and I enjoyed watching for entertainment were science or medical in nature.  Still I put it off as being too hard of a career for me to pursue that would take too long so I put the idea on the back burner.  Finally around 2008, after much deliberation and personal research I decided to talk to one of the Nurse Practicioners after work one day about what her job was like.  This was the turning point for me.  I knew at that moment I was beginning a new chapter in my life and never looking back.  I remember for the first time actually being excited about going to school and realized that healthcare would never be a job to me, but a rewarding lifestyle.