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Your kid fails out of med school, do you then find him a job, or tell him he's on his own
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:33 pm
Situation:
Post-grad aged son fails out of medical school (cannot pass level exams).
Smart kid just not ready to be a doctor.
You have already sent him and paid for the best undergrad (private) college he could get into. Footed the whole bill, room and board, etc.
Then pay for 2 yrs of med school. Again, apt, books, stipend, etc. The kid is debt free.
He fails. Wasn't an effort thing. No biggie. It happens. Some people aren't meant to do certain things.
So... Now do you continue to call in favors for him with your professional friends and try to get him a job that he may or may not want/like, or do you let him taste the full force of the real world and start from scratch at his first real job and earn every interview he will get in the next 4-6 mo. while he is given a 'look' period.
Post-grad aged son fails out of medical school (cannot pass level exams).
Smart kid just not ready to be a doctor.
You have already sent him and paid for the best undergrad (private) college he could get into. Footed the whole bill, room and board, etc.
Then pay for 2 yrs of med school. Again, apt, books, stipend, etc. The kid is debt free.
He fails. Wasn't an effort thing. No biggie. It happens. Some people aren't meant to do certain things.
So... Now do you continue to call in favors for him with your professional friends and try to get him a job that he may or may not want/like, or do you let him taste the full force of the real world and start from scratch at his first real job and earn every interview he will get in the next 4-6 mo. while he is given a 'look' period.
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Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:35 pm to Jack Ruby
quote:
Post-grad aged son fails out of medical school (cannot pass level exams).
How does this happen?
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:35 pm to Jack Ruby
The doctor is his mother.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:36 pm to Jack Ruby
Redirect him to PT, OT or chiropractor school.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:36 pm to Jack Ruby
Help your kid succeed because everyone else is hoping he fails.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:36 pm to Jack Ruby
The world needs ditch diggers too.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:36 pm to Jack Ruby
Tell him to watch the episode of mad men where the doctor has to go to be a surgeon in Vietnam
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:36 pm to Jack Ruby
Not to be one of those self-righteous folks, but amongst my friends, everyone that has best paying jobs did not use connections and got it on own merit. If you have really good connections, then I guess. There's just millions more jobs you can apply to that aren't connection related online than how many just are available to you that are connection based. There's only so many people that in his family's network that are looking for a 24 year old bio major.
This post was edited on 12/26/24 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:37 pm to Jack Ruby
You take him off the tit and tell him good luck.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:38 pm to VolunGator
quote:
Redirect him to PT, OT or chiropractor school.
CRNA
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:38 pm to Saunson69
quote:
Not to be one of those self-righteous folks
This is like starting off a sentence with “I don’t want to sound racist but”
Admit what you are, be it self-righteous or pathological internet liar
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:38 pm to Jack Ruby
Tell him to move somewhere warm, get a bartending job, and crush puss for a year.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:39 pm to Jack Ruby
I would send him into the mountains in Peru with a shaman to trip his balls off drinking ayahuasca for a week and see what the snake has to say about all of it.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:39 pm to Saunson69
quote:
Not to be one of those self-righteous folks, but amongst my friends, everyone that has best paying jobs did not use connections and got it on own merit.
I have the complete opposite experience. Many of the people I know with wealthy parents went to top notch schools and got top notch jobs
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:39 pm to Lush
quote:
Tell him to move somewhere warm, get a bartending job, and crush puss for a year.
Coughlin's laws.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:40 pm to Oates Mustache
quote:
The doctor is his mother.
You dont bury survivors .
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:41 pm to Jack Ruby
Tell him to go the Podiatrist route.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:41 pm to Jack Ruby
If he’s my kid and he applied himself but just couldn’t pass it on merit alone then I absolutely help him land on his feet in whatever shape he’s comfortable with me doing.
Why would I abandon him now?
Why would I abandon him now?
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:42 pm to Oates Mustache
This is not my kid, but personally I'd tell him to go join the Navy or Air Force as an 0-2 Intelligence officer and enjoy his life without the theat of a fricking lawsuit every 10 mins for the next 30 yrs.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:43 pm to Jack Ruby
Be there for him when he genuinely needs you. Otherwise, let him alone.
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