Clean Slate

This is the beginning of my “clean slate”. I just got the boot from medical school and now I have to figure out what to do with my life. My first concern is that people are starting to get on my nerves. Here is what I have been told so far:

“It’s not the end of the world.”

Yes, I know this. Mainly because of the lack of frog rain and locust winds. It is a step along the “journey of life.”

“It’s not a big deal.”

Bullshit! It is a big deal. Let’s not trivialize it.

“You’ll be fine.”

I hope so, otherwise you were wrong about the whole big deal thing.

I understand people want to make me feel better, but I don’t really want “warm fuzzies”. I want/need solutions. I need friends and family to say, “here is an option, here are the pros & cons of this alternative, this is why it would be good for you, and this is how this option relates to the other choices you have.”

I need to figure out where I’m going. I don’t even know what I want to do now. I could try to re-enter medicine. This would require me to spend a few years trying to get my stuff together to produce a decent application.

I could go do something else…Engineering, Law, some type of Master’s, Dental School,…

I’m looking at pretty much everything and anything right now. I’m going to make a post with a list of ideas, and if anyone has anything else please comment there.