The Gnomes Made Me Do It!

Maple syrup, blueberry pancakes and crispy bacon, as odd a combination as it might sound being sweet and savoury and both at adjcent ends of the taste wheel, is actually very delightful! I just finished a long lunch with an old girlfriend I haven't seen in months. She was telling me what life was like in the financial sector, from a broker's perspective. Working hours are based on what time the markets are open and if London is 7 hours behind, then you've got to work based on London time. It's insane. Well, not that doctors have it any easier, but it certainly isn't your 9-5 job, and like doctors, you WILL clock 14 hour days. But, brokers make hellofva lot more money then say, a doctor in a polyclinic. So of course the question came up "Are you sure this is what you want to do? You're not going be even making 3 grand when you first start out as a houseman, and you'll be? What? 32?"

I know the deal, I'm getting left behing while my peers are moving up the corporate ladder. I'm stagnating at this point, because honestly, I'm not moving forward in terms of a career neither am I moving forwards acedemically. Geez it's a second bachelor for crying out loud, not even honours. What I do know however is, I'm making progress in my own way, and it may not be visible yet, but I can't for the life of me picture anything else I would rather do then to perform rectal examinations and treat parang wounds of ah bengs. So yes, it IS what I want to do, and even though I'm not going live poshly for the next 5 years, and be 32 when I start on a career, this is what I want to do so help me God. Like how it was when I was a kid at the receiving end of constant fat jibes, I've got to toughen up to face well-meaning friends, who, I believe, just want what's best for me, and not take things too personally. And today I didn't! A quiet battle won. I can do this.

PS: I caved and now have a new book anyway and it's not even Haddon's! :p

Posted by sideshowjo on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 3:58 pm | Permalink