Blog 32 - ENFP (continued)

I’ve been thinking about pediatrics, specifically becoming a pediatric internist, so just being the classic pediatrician that works at a hospital, or maybe a private practice and sees kids all day. I know everyone always says, hey you’ll get sick of them, they cry, have icky cuts and runny noses and they’ll tell you their tummy hurts and ear itches expect you to diagnose their illness from that…and they go on and on. But from babysitting, doing physics fest for AP Physics, and after taking the personality test, I feel like I can have fun working with children for long periods of time.

I love bio, we watched a video about epigenetics and it really caught my attention. Chem is pretty fun too, I HATE PHYSICS. And then we took the tests and surveys and it definitely told me research in a lab for long hours wouldn’t cut it for lifelong satisfaction job-wise. Probably not even for a few years. And working in a lab never really sounded fun. So even though I love epigenetics, it may have to just be a spread out research project, because I think I really was right about pediatrics.

This personality test was pretty interesting. I have brown parents and so every time I mention health care people mumble, or atleast think, her parents are probably making her. Whenever I talk to them they always tell me to do what makes me happy, and be sure not to look at salaries. Since I’ve wanted to go into medicine, which came after my year or so of interest in biomedical engineering (that interest ended after AP Physics and other little things), I’ve always been a little worried that somehow my parents had something to do with it, even though they’ve never really said anything. Maybe not even that, but just the stereotype that all Indian/Sri Lankan’s go into the medical field or engineering has bothered me because though a lot of people do get pushed in, many don’t. After thinking about it I truly believe thats what I really want to do, only because I want to do it. I feel like there are no ulterior influences in this decision.