HELP ME !!!!

Maybe if u got a bachelor degree and became a GP u could be able to still pursue boxing

Does ur family have any preferences

Yes u become a go automatically with a bachelor degree

Go means gp

Ash444 if u want to be a neurosurgeon u’ll have to put in a lot more work and time and effort. U r gonna have to expect to study up to the age of 28 and maybe start work when 30. If i was u i would become a gp which means get a bachelor degree and then later in my life when i want to continue studying become a neurosurgeon. (Remember every doctor becomes a gp first bcuz a bachelor degree automatically makes u a gp depending on the program ur in)

I hope this helps. Gl

Alternatively, you could try one of the following fields:

• bioengineering
• biotechnology
• bioinformatics
• medical data engineer
• lab/ hospital equipment field service engineer

These would allow you to either directly or indirectly help patients become better or make people happy and tie both med and engineering together. Some, like the last one, are also travelling jobs e.g. you are paid to travel to different labs/ hospitals within the same state or interstate to fix their equipment and it’s still mostly a 9-5 job (apart from interstate travel).

If you want more direct jobs that might make people happy, related to your passion for boxing, and maybe please your parents (close to medicine and are typically secure jobs) you could try these:

• physiotherapy
• occupational therapy
• physical therapy
• radiography/ sonography
  These don’t usually need UCAT, from memory, but might have other prereqs and are typically reliable 9-5 jobs, which then leaves you free time after. However, the salary may be lower than doctors or engineers.

I’ve tried to think of a job that would satisfy all your passions and requirements, while also mixing med and engineering, but it would be very niche and difficult without experience first.

Also guys i have a HUGGEEE creative writing exam coming up for HSC so if anyone could give advice it would be appreciated. Tyy (wish u luck on ur boxing Ash444)

I sort of understated where u r coming from bc although i want to be a doctor to treat ppl my parents are also a factor in motivating me to do so in a non controlling way but more so a beneficial way.

Yea lol. thx

Ash444 Hey, that’s fine too! Ultimately the forum is for helping students like you out and the more we get to know what you want in your career, the better we can answer your original post, but you only need to share what you want to divulge. Since it appears to be personal, we can leave it at that.

In that case, you’re looking at careers with a mix of neurology, oncology and bioengineering. You also want to help people, to travel, to have spare time to do your boxing training/ be a pro boxer. Most of the things I’ve specified before are potential ideas for you. I’d also put out there the idea of medical/ bioengineering research, specialising in brain cancer, but this is lower down the list compared to most other careers I’ve listed, or biomedical engineering or medical engineering as Jinx and _Sophiestudies _ have said, which combine both areas.

Now to link back to your med vs. eng problem. With all your posts, I think you could do either.

Medicine would take longer to specialise and have less free time, as stated already. Engineering wouldn’t take as long and give you more spare time to go into boxing, but it will become harder to get into some of these fields.

In the end, the choice is yours and remember that there’s multiple pathways to get where you want.

Mina

You don't automatically become a GP after completing the degree. You will still need at least a further 5 years of working/training before becoming a GP (2 years before you can apply for GP training and then 3 years of that training) so it is definitely also considered a "speciality"

Ash444

When you are specialising you are working at the same time.

To be a Neurosurgeon you would need to complete your medical degree, complete about 2 years working as a junior doctor, work a few years as an unaccredited surgery/neurosurgery registrar (it gets quite difficult to get onto a neurosurgery training spot immediately and it can take someone multiple years - it's not unheard of people waiting 6-7 years to try to get it and either ultimately getting in or changing onto something else). Then once you get a training spot it's a further 5 years of work/study.

Sine i agree with what u’ve said but in general to receive the degree it takes only 5 yrs whereas specialising in a specific field takes longer to earn a degree. (This is without adding a general course and training) so to become a gp it would take less time.