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So ever since I was a small child I wanted to be a dentist. Go to school for years on end, learning, then working, then teaching later on. However, I had a bit of a partying stage in my teen years where I didn't save a damned dollar for my self, and now that i have came back, and am done with 1st year of college my dreams have resurfaced. However, the reason i mentioned not saving a dollar is because I now live with my boyfriends parents.
I work 2 part time jobs in the mall.
point is, they think i should do something like get an A.A.S. for God's sakes so I can start making money faster and basically get the hell out of their lives. So to make things not seem so horrible for myself, I am trying to make dental hygiene ( a great career as well) suffice.
The parents seem to think this is a fabulous idea, along with everone else in my life, while I think to myself every day how I'm shortchanging myself on my real dreams. Howver, these two jobs in the mall may or may not hold out for the next 4-8 years until i get a real career.
So the question is; to pursue dental hygiene, shortchange myself, end up with an AAS degree, certification, or whatever it is. waste the 1.5 years of physics, chemistry, biology, physchology i ALREADY have and get some career training in the RDH field?
OR
get on everyones last nerves tattling away at a distant dream. / what if i didnt even get into dental school?
where would i live while in the hypothetical school?
and i suffering grandiose?
Does anyone see the conflict here?
* 11 hours ago
* - 4 days left to answer.
Additional Details
***ONE MORE THING***
I don't dare tell anyone (besides my sister) of my Dental Dreams.
I act undecided and tell them I want to get a degree in Biology. And the reason for this is I wasnt just any partier. i was a crazy drunk all the time passing out in your dad's bed, typa partier. So it almost FEELS insane to express to people what i want to do.,
like, my dreams seem so far fetched, compared to what I was/where i used to be that i don't even want to tell people. if that makes any sense at all
Second thing
I have a 3.9GPA
-biology
-chemistry
-physics
-psych1 and 2
-writng cmomunications
-1 year of signlanguage
-i know i need more, just puttin that out there.
I work 2 part time jobs in the mall.
point is, they think i should do something like get an A.A.S. for God's sakes so I can start making money faster and basically get the hell out of their lives. So to make things not seem so horrible for myself, I am trying to make dental hygiene ( a great career as well) suffice.
The parents seem to think this is a fabulous idea, along with everone else in my life, while I think to myself every day how I'm shortchanging myself on my real dreams. Howver, these two jobs in the mall may or may not hold out for the next 4-8 years until i get a real career.
So the question is; to pursue dental hygiene, shortchange myself, end up with an AAS degree, certification, or whatever it is. waste the 1.5 years of physics, chemistry, biology, physchology i ALREADY have and get some career training in the RDH field?
OR
get on everyones last nerves tattling away at a distant dream. / what if i didnt even get into dental school?
where would i live while in the hypothetical school?
and i suffering grandiose?
Does anyone see the conflict here?
* 11 hours ago
* - 4 days left to answer.
Additional Details
***ONE MORE THING***
I don't dare tell anyone (besides my sister) of my Dental Dreams.
I act undecided and tell them I want to get a degree in Biology. And the reason for this is I wasnt just any partier. i was a crazy drunk all the time passing out in your dad's bed, typa partier. So it almost FEELS insane to express to people what i want to do.,
like, my dreams seem so far fetched, compared to what I was/where i used to be that i don't even want to tell people. if that makes any sense at all
Second thing
I have a 3.9GPA
-biology
-chemistry
-physics
-psych1 and 2
-writng cmomunications
-1 year of signlanguage
-i know i need more, just puttin that out there.