u/Idkanymore_salty

Incoming college student and I'm taking Bs Social Worker.

I just wanna know how much does social workers really make here in the Philippines

I am an incoming first year college student.

Ever since I was a kid (at 6 maybe) I have always dreamed of becoming a doctor, it was just a random decision in my small thinking brain at that time. Cause during that time I just asked my mom what does doctors do and she said, that they save lives blah blah blah (yk), and something just clicked in me and made me astonished at her explanation that I instantly said that I wanna be a doctor when I grow up. And that's it. Everytime a teacher would ask what I wanna be when I grow up I would always say Doctor. The more I learned throughout my life, the more I became even more determined to become a medical practicioner. My dreams went crashing down when I'm now an incoming first year college student.

With every University's entrance examination I took, I put nursing as my choice of course(as a pre-med). I admit that I'm not really intelligent, but I'm able to keep my grades high(With high Honors✌🏼). I waited patiently for the results to come out and when the time finally came, I was devastated cause I didn't pass at my chosen course, I passed the Univ but not Nursing. And so I waited for the other Uni that I have taken an entrance exam in and still I didn't pass.....I was 3 points away from the passing score for Bs Nursing.....

My parents grew worried about me not passing the entrance exam. I then asked if I could study at a private university but then they disagreed saying we don't have enough money for it, I then countered I could get a scholarship so we can afford it somehow, they still wouldn't agree. Then my relatives recommended me at a tuition free college school, but the school wasn't offering any medical courses yet. I firmly disagreed at first since they also said that I should just take Bs Social work, but my heart have always belonged to medical courses. But fate have clearly denied my plans, my dreams. I don't know if it was fate or am I just dumb.

And so my parents then just pushed me at that tuition free school and made me take the entrance exam and ironically I passed.

I actually took 4 entrance examination at different universities (Not included the tuition free college), I passed the entrance Examination but not the course that I wanted. I feel so stupid and extremely frustrated cause I'm not that far from reaching the passing score for Bs Nursing. Then why didn't it just gave it to me.

I took Bs Social work at that Tuition free college btw, yeah not very much related to the course I wanted my whole entire life. True, it have the same sense of helping people but I don't think I can accept it.

They said that Nursing wasn't really for me and medicine was not the profession god planned for me, and that's why I didn't pass. Cause if it was for me, it's for me. I don't want to believe it at first cause I really want that medical course but I already failed 4 times. I only succeeded 1 time and that was when I took Bs Social work (I even had a high entrance exam score)

So now I have no other choice but to accept it. I admit that I feel jealous to my friends that was able to take medical courses, I feel so so so jealous and frustrated.

But as they said, if it wasn't for me, it wasn't.