Endless Paradigm

i have work to do, so I'll make this short

Basically my dad is a doctor with 3 clinic's under his name where he practices his medicine, of course there will be a time when he has to retire, so all his hard effort will have to be passed onto one of his kids. Sounds simple right? Well, unfortunately his children may/may not have the academic grades to accomplish such a task or they simply just don't want to be a doctor.

I'm not gloating about how awesome i am, but i really can't turn a blind eye to this problem anymore because my siblings are showing they simply do not have the academic superiority to achieve this task. It's unfortunate, but the only one i feel that has a good chance of becoming a doctor is myself, but i am also a person with his own agenda, that, is to become an computer engineer/engineer and maybe build a cybernetic lifeform someday. That, or design computers which would be the most awesome/fun job because i get to work around the thing i love most, technology.

It's just that, my father worked so hard to achieve the level of success he has now, to throw this chance away and my fathers hard work; it brings trouble in my frame of mind and guilt that I'm not upholding the hard work that has supported my family so long.

It's a dilemma basically, i don't want to see my dads work go to waste, but i don't want to work in a job i might not like working in at all; neither choice is right, so I'm damned confused here.

Get a part time job doing both.

I'm in the same situation myself so i know how you feel, dood.

but i simply don't want to. i don't like my dad's job, nor i want to be like him when i grow up. hell, I'm not even sure what i want to be when i grow up. but whatever i want to be, I'm sure as hell that i will be enjoying it.

so the question is: do you think you would enjoy the job if you take it up?

theEvilOne Wrote:Get a part time job doing both.

lols. Having two professions is no easy task. And it can't be accomplished in a short amount of time.

I'm sure your father could find a suitable person outside the family.

theEvilOne Wrote:Get a part time job doing both.

lovely, medicine and engineering are some of T_H_E hardest courses one could take (IMO), it would be nearly impossible to work on both since they are totally done in different fields. @_@

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theEvilOne Wrote:Get a part time job doing both.

lols. Having two professions is no easy task. And it can't be accomplished in a short amount of time.

I'm sure your father could find a suitable person outside the family.

It's my dad, he has faith in his sons, it's a family business; i can't make him give his life's work to someone else because i simply didn't feel like upholding it.

Talk to your dad about this. I'm sure it's not something you can bring up so easily to your dad but just try talk to him about your goals and why you want to be an engineer I'm sure he'd support you in your career choice. Maybe then you wouldn't feel bad?

My dad supports me. He never got the chance for an education which is why I'm working hard to become the first person in my family to graduate college and earn munnies.

Lunar Wrote:Talk to your dad about this. I'm sure it's not something you can bring up so easily to your dad but just try talk to him about your goals and why you want to be an engineer I'm sure he'd support you in your career choice. Maybe then you wouldn't feel bad?

My dad supports me. He never got the chance for an education which is why I'm working hard to become the first person in my family to graduate college and earn munnies.

My dad shunned my idea of being an engineer and told me how great it is to be a doctor

hire some doctors, maybe your friends with a doctor degree can be in the 3 clinics, then let you be the manager for the clinics, then still continueing your career as computer engineer. I think the task is lessened here if you have supervisor in the clinics, then continue the family business as it was

but i think let your heart decide. you will regret it once youve decided the wrong choice.

^^ great idea. a sole manager won't be as busy. and over time your dad can gives you advice for it as well.

If there's 3 clinics, surely there's plenty of other doctors there already, right?  Then you could simply be the manager as stated, and have a few more doctors fill in, if necessarily.  Management is not necessarily easy though.

You could even hire a manager to do all the work actually, though this kinda gets tricky.