 Hi guys, so today's video is going to be on why I chose to become a nurse instead of choosing to go to med school and become a doctor. I have mentioned this in previous videos, so if you've heard the story, I'm sorry. But a lot of people ask me, you know, why didn't you become a doctor? So a little back story is when I was in high school, and like, well I guess throughout like junior high, like middle school, like and high school, I was so set on becoming a doctor. I wanted to be an OBGYN, I wanted to deliver babies, I wanted to be a doctor, and so many people had told me you should go to med school, you should be a doctor. In high school I did very, very well, I was in the top like 1% of my class, I got all A's, I did honors classes, I graduated high school, I had over 40 college credits to give you kind of like a little background information. So I was very involved, knew a lot of people, everyone was like you should be a doctor, you have a good personality, you have the smarts to do it, whatnot, and I was like yes, I'm going to. But probably my junior year in high school, I started to think about what doctors actually do versus what nurses do, and nothing against doctors because I think there's so many wonderful doctors out there and I really, really appreciate what they do. And I wanted to do a job where I was more involved at the patient's bedside. Doctors typically write orders and the nurses are the ones who carry out those orders. The doctors don't spend a whole lot of time at the bedside, again it really depends on the doctor or the type of field that you're in, but the nurses are the ones who are there 99.9% of the day and are the ones holding your hand when you're crying, who are the ones who are explaining things to you, giving you the medications, putting in your IV, explaining things like really being involved. And I realized like that is what I wanted to do, I want to be involved. I don't necessarily want to be the one who's writing the medication orders, I want to be the one who's giving up. And so then I decided okay, I want to pursue nursing. Another good reason why I chose nursing, a couple reasons. One, it's usually a little bit more conducive to family life and we eventually want to have kids. And two is that I knew that going into nursing, I would spend three, four years, you know, however long it took, and that I would have a career afterwards. I would be a nurse afterwards and I would be able to make X amount of money when I graduated. If I decided to go to do pre-med and then go on to med school, if after that four years of doing pre-med, if I decided, and this is not really for me, I want to do something different or I just don't really want to go on to med school or I didn't get into a med school, I would be stuck. I would not really have a whole lot of job opportunities with just having a pre-med bachelor's degree because I mean I could teach possibly but really like nursing would just open up so many more opportunities. Another reason is I knew that if I became a nurse and wanted to expand my education to become more like a doctor, I could get my nurse practitioner. Now not saying that those are identical because there are some differences but nurse practitioners can ultimately do a lot of what a doctor can do. So that was another influence is I knew after I graduated, I would have a solid career. I would be able to still work and have a family. I would make enough income to support my family and that if I still wanted to expand my education, I could become a nurse practitioner. So those are the reasons why I chose to become a nurse instead of a doctor and again if you're pursuing to become a doctor that is wonderful, that's great. We need more doctors, we need more great doctors and you know, same for nursing. I personally, I tell people this all the time, I may have not said this in my videos but I am so so happy with the career choice that I made. I could not have picked a better career choice for myself, for my needs, my personality and I love caring for people. I love the medical world, I love critical thinking and I love being there when people are experiencing some very, very tough emotional times. And so I'm super happy that I chose nursing and I hope, I only could hope that everyone who goes into nursing can feel the way that I do about nursing. Now I know that's not always true but anyways, I hope you guys like this video, make sure you give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.