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I Gave Up A Lucrative Medical Career To Become A Writer
Here is the incredible story of how it turned out
Most of us get stuck in our chosen career paths — like them or not — because it is simply too hard to start over in another profession. Or we are not willing to accept the loss of income starting over usually requires. Or we spent so much money on education, it seems crazy to not do what we spent a crazy amount of money on to do.
I was walking that same soul-crushing career path. Why don’t counselors tell you that making life-affecting decisions as a teenager is STUPID? People change. Desires change. A boring career that pays well is still a boring career year after year. In fact, it just gets more boring with time. And what sounded cool as a kid is often not cool at all in reality.
After college, medical school, and a medical internship, I set myself up in a cushy nose hair surgeon practice. Instead of spending endless hours with a pair of tweezers, I developed a procedure to surgically remove the nose hair follicles that make life as a movie star or social media influencer so tricky.
Sure, you could “let the forest grow” like Grandpa and gross everyone out. But you aren’t going to go viral or get sponsors with Tarzan swinging on those vines hanging out of…
