My Experience Of Switching Career… | by nona | Oct, 2025
The turning point of your life where you need immense support from your loved ones. Some get and some don’t……
I had always been told that i should become doctor in future . I complied because i didn’t had any dream for which i would argue about . This went on till 12th grade which is a crucial year both as a college student and MCAT aspirant and then joined a well known academy which had a hefty fee ;however, hussling between two things i somehow lost the motivation to do something or anything .
Then the bomb dropped when my parents became against the idea of me doing medical though they subtly gave me hints here and there during my 11th standard yet the real pressure on me was during the 12th grade . My elder sister who dreamt of me becoming a doctor wanted me to give MCAT and my parenst wanted me to give test for CS or engineering related field . I wanted to satisfy both of them and decided i would give both MCAT and the entry test for CS . However it didn’t go my way, i couldn’t give MCAT due to documentation issue and the only thing left for me was to give the CS test and i failed to clear that .
The support that i expected from my family was nothing that i thought of . My parents were calm , told me that i can give the test again but my elder sister and younger brother made it pretty clear to me that i destroyed my future with my own hands . I have to wait now for 2 months to again give the CS /IT entry test but my sister ,who wanted to see me as a doctor, didn’t take it pretty well . She made it seem like i would stay at home from now on and even poceeded to call me a “ liberal maid” all beacuse i help our my mother around the house and do their part of chores too which they don’t do.The first time she called me that i cried the whole night thinking why would she ever call me that , my own sibling but later it became a permanent taunt. Everytime we fought she would casually insult me for not getting into the University .
No one considered that i changed my field and a person who studied biology now suddenly needs to practice maths in which ,speaking of myself, i am rather average .My brother following her footsteps told me i shouldn’t be the one talking about future , again implying my failed attempt to get into University . This continued, my parents looking at the situation told me to accept the alternative options that universities give when seats are left but i refused because if i did that they would think of me as a weak person who hastily decided her future without any consideration . I am still doing my best and i hope this time i don’t fail beacuse i know i can’t survive them making fun me , just because i help our mother in house-chores they have created an image of me doing work for them . I don’t want to go through that phase again . I survived only because my parents and my other sister were pretty supportive of me and knew about the struggle i was going through.
