Feeling Lost
I’m a 25-year-old nurse currently feeling torn between pursuing medical school or working abroad.
Ever since I was young, I’ve dreamed of becoming a doctor, which is why I chose nursing as my pre-med course. But during nursing school, I became burnt out and decided to work first instead of immediately continuing to medicine.
Now, after two years of working as a nurse with a salary that can barely support myself, while also watching my parents grow older and approach retirement, I’ve started to feel uncertain about my future.
If I choose medicine, I would be a first-generation doctor in a city already saturated with physicians. It would also require years of training, financial sacrifice, and uncertainty. On the other hand, if I decide to work abroad as a nurse, I may gain financial stability, but I would also be spending valuable years away from my aging parents.
Both paths come with sacrifices, and I’m afraid of choosing one only to realize later that it was the wrong decision. At this point in my life, I don’t know if I have the time, emotional capacity, or financial security to take such a huge risk.
Right now, I just feel lost.