Hi there! 🙂
So I’m currently a first year Life Sciences student at St. George Campus and I’m still not sure what I want to do with my life at this point. I did research and explore careers and I feel that nothing really catches my interest. I don’t know what I want to major or minor or specialize in Life Sciences. The reason I went into Life Sciences is because I felt there were more careers offered in this program but I’m still indecisive and sometimes, I feel I don’t know if its worth it to stay in the program. I did try thinking more of a career that reflects my personality and values, I really do like to communicate with people (especially children) and I wish to work in a field that I can provide care for people so I did gain more of an interest in nursing (hopefully in Sickkids) and I prefer working in a hospital than working in a lab or research. The thing is, I don’t want to study that long and I’m not that bright lol so a Ph D is out of the picture, 2 years of masters is fine though. The thing about nursing is that I think I have to transfer out of UofT and attend Ryersons nursing or York because my friend in 4th year life sci, (pursuing nursing at UofT next year) said they require you to finish a degree and then apply for the 2 year problem and they only accept B+ – A+ averages (I don’t think I can maintain a high GPA) whereas for Ryerson, I can directly apply and it’ll be a shorter time and they also offer placements. The problem is, I don’t want to transfer out of UofT, I really love the campus, I just checked out Ryersons campus and I realized how beautiful UofT campus is and how opened it is. I love the libraries here and I made a few good close friends here and the profs are great. I don’t know whether I should stay at UofT or transfer. It’ll be such an adjustment if I do transfer. The good part about Ryerson is the classes will be smaller, easier to interact with others and make?friends and easier to have a social life too. If I stay here at UofT, I don’t know what career I wish to pursue, I do love psychology though! What’s holding me back from majoring in Psychology is that people are always saying that it is so hard to get a job in psychology unless you have a Ph D. Sigh. Should I stay here at UofT? Or, is there any other careers you suggest?
Sorry for the long message btw and thanks for the help! 🙂
Oh yeah, do you reply back on the site or by mail?
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hello. this is an old question. if you’d like to see why i am answering these BLASTS FROM THE PAST, please go?here! thanks!
aska
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hey there,
wow…i feel like i just read a transcript of the entirety of one person’s thoughts for a whole month. first of all, sorry this wasn’t answered earlier (please refer to my explanation and a more elaborate apology here), but i hope you don’t mind my (attempting) to answer your (very long) questions (seriously i’m in awe of how long this is) for any first-years who might be feeling the same as you were about a year ago (like i don’t think i’ve ever written one thing this long without being forced to by a prof).
now, there are a lot of questions implicit in that novella you’ve written, but i think i’ve boiled it down to just a few: 1) is it worth it to transfer? 2) should you do nursing or psychology? and 3) are there any more careers in health/medicine i can suggest?
first, you can’t make transfer decisions based on how pretty campus is. if that happened, then paris or kingston, jamaica would be the most academically dense cities in the world. if ryerson’s campus isn’t as fancy and old-looking as uoft’s, then just come back and visit trin on wekeends or something. if you like the idea of a nursing degree that’s shorter and lets you do work placements, then that’s the degree you should get: end of story. a social life and pretty buildings are secondary.
as for just getting a B.Sc. in psych without any kind of graduate or professional degree afterwards, you’re right, it’s probably not the most lucrative idea. but if you really want to do it, then that shouldn’t stop you, is what i say. still, you seem pretty lukewarm about it, and it looks like you’re thinking more seriously about nursing, so i’m just gonna discourage you from the whole psychology path.
are there any careers i can suggest? no, not really. especially if you’re interested in working with children, becoming a nurse might be one of the best ideas. if you really want to go down that route, i’d suggest taking a look at this to learn a bit more about what you can expect (also i always advise students to do their own research because you never know what kind of helpful career info/advice you can dig up).
i hope that helps, my friend.
cheers,
aska