Hello Nairalanders,

A lot has been going on in my mind career wise. I used to have this childhood dream that I wanted to become a Doctor. As far as I can remember, I was so into Medicine. I loved it.

Then, the unimaginable happened. I finished from secondary school with a good WAEC result, did fairly in Jamb and Post-Ume but my scores couldn't get me to study Medicine.
Nevertheless, I was given a course: Cell Biology and Genetics. Never heard of the course before. It didn't even cross my mind once. But I settled for the course in the hope that I would retake the UME exams. I sat for the exam while in school and the result came out but my score was not enough to get into Medicine.

Feeling very disappointed, I resolved to continue with Cell Biology and Genetics. I graduated last year with a Second Class Upper (2:1). But I had an experience which has made me to have a second thought on studying Medicine. I did my SIWES in an Oil Firm (name with held).

Now you might be thinking, what does Cell Biology and Genetics have to do with Oi? Well, every course has its own areas of specialization and it happens to be that Environmental studies is one of them. So I functioned in the Health Safety &Environment Department in partnership with an FPSO operation department in the company. So due to my SIWES experience, my final year project was on Phytoremediation of a Crude Oil Polluted Soil.

Now, the challenge I have is that, I'm almost through with NYSC. I don't know whether I should go for my masters program in Environmental studies or go back to undergraduate level to study Medicine. Sincerely everything is kind of blurry

Stop thinking medicine bro• Move on with the environmental studies•

I want to, but the hype some peeps give concerning Medicine. I know quite a few that are going back to study Medicine.

Popsy is like Medicine...blah blah blah. Of recent I had this thought that. Instead of going back to study Medicine, I should just go back to study Environmental Engineering or Science, get a Masters to better my chances in the Industry.

But Medicine would take 7yrs but the latter just 5 yrs.

If you wanna do medicine outside Nigeria such as USA its better since you need a Bsc to study it there• Or you want to go back to Unilag?? Then that would be a waste of time• Coz you may end up using more than seven years•

Unilag keh! Not at all. #God dey