Kids have always inspired me. I really love them and can’t see them in pain. I thought of being a school nurse or working in a nursery would be really fun. But once again my parents started their usual lecture, “be someone that will make you be proud of yourself, make you inspire yourself and will make you succeed in your life.”
We don’t really argue over that matter anymore. It all ended there. Well doing something you’re not interested isn’t good is it? Or being forced into something doesn’t help either.
Sometimes I think my parents don’t love me anymore. I mean I’m sorry but I don’t really want to be a doctor. Anyways looking at my family generation, I think I’m the only one they are expecting to get somewhere. I won’t let them down but I’m also not going to be a doctor.
I don’t really know what all my cousins and what their up to. If I did then maybe they would have helped me decide what is good and not, because some of them are older than me and some are the same age as me. But all of them are just useless!
I know where all of them are going to end. At my granddads shop. I haven’t told you this so I’ll tell you.
Well, my granddad was a very busy man and had worked hard to make him rich. He did become rich. In my country, most rich people just brought shops in different areas and made money through them. Then my granddad passed it down to my dad and uncles. (My aunties got married and became housewives). Even they worked hard and still are. All of them are thinking of passing it down to me and my cousins when we grow up. My parents don’t want me to do all this. They want me to start something of my own. And my mum thinks being a doctor is the best because her little sister died at a very young age. The doctors really didn’t bother. But my mum wants me to bother and take care of all the people around me.
So is there a job that will inspire me? I knew looking up in the internet would help me.
“What are you interested in?”
That’s all they ask you? Well…a job where I can work with kids, have a good reputation, be practical, help the community and be respected.
Wow, they really have me a good list of jobs. But the main jobs that matched my interests were:
Doctor; definitely not, Dentist; ill think about it…NO; Nursery nurse; awww I’d love to; Social worker; I want the kids to love me not hate me! Paediatrician; what is that?
Paediatrician? What’s that? I had to look this one up!
A specialist in kids
Oh my god. I couldn’t believe it. A medical specialist for children. Cute children. My head was spinning everywhere. I didn’t really like the sound of “medical” but I got use to it. I couldn’t wait to tell my parents. I finally got what I needed. My dream job.
I remember a friend told me about this but I didn’t really bother to listen. I should’ve, at least I didn’t have to waste my time on this. But on the other hand, this was kind of useful. The first thing I thought I should do is call my friend and discuss this with her. My friend is a really good buddy. She’s always there for me and the good thing I that she wants to be a paediatrician as well so she’s a great person to take advice from.
I called my friend and she told me that a paediatrician is a great job with a great salary, but it takes a lot of effort to become one. She told me that to get into a medical university; I need to do A levels at college in biology, chemistry and any other subject I enjoy. I need to get A’s in these three subjects. After that I will be doing a 5-6 year course in university about medicines. Then if I want, I can specialise in children and become a paediatric.
Wow, there was everything I need to know. I thanked my friend a lot for the help and she advised me to tell my parents about this, at least they’ll be happy in one thing I’ve done in life.
When I told my parents, they were so happy that they even gave me a new lecture, ‘now that you know what you want to be, you should always remember to work for it from now’.
Okay, I get your message. I mean my mum wasn’t really happy to hear ‘paediatrician’ but I think she got the message when I told her what a paediatrician is. She became happy.
Now sometimes I think all the advice, suggestions and lectures my parents gave me have got me to this stage. Or maybe I would still be sitting, thinking ‘lets enjoy life, I’m only 14’
Well being 14 is about having fun but sometimes you have to take serious decisions about you’re own life and in my opinion I think that this is the right age to think about it. And like my parents use to say to me ‘being 14 lands you into trouble’. I have never understood what they mean. But now I think I know what they mean. Do you?
