Writer's Block: Youthful Transgressions

[cornerofmadness]

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1) I was only 19 when I interviewed with medical schools. I wish I never had. I wish I had never become a doctor. Surprised? Don't be. Very few of you knew me then. Don't get me wrong I liked treating patients....sometimes. Often they were frustrating but nothing like the malpractice and paperwork ends where a few wrong lines ina note could wind you up in court at the losing end of a million dollar lawsuit. Not to mention the student loans that ruined my life. I still need to become the next Stephanie Meyers or I will spent my last days in a state run welfare home and I'm not joking about that. I owe THAT much money.


2) I wish I hadn't let the kids in high school get to me so badly. I literally hate them to this day. It was an awful time that I almost didn't survive. I was Willow without a Buffy and Xander and magic. It was brutal

Comments

[caffeinified.livejournal.com]

I can see that. The medical field is filled with so much red tape and stress. I don't know how anyone does it.

And I can empathize about the high school people. I really hate thinking back to and seeing people from back then.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

teh problem is les and less people are willing to do it and the top notch people are floating off to other jobs

yeah high school was a mess for everyone but those at the top, like my brother

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry being a doctor has become such a mess.

I let the kids in grade school and high school get to me pretty badly, although I was more inured to it by high school.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they feared me in grade school. I've been nearly 5'9" since i was 13. I was WAY bigger than the rest and a complete loner but I was happy about that.

being a doctor has become a true trainwreck

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I wish I had never become a doctor.

I know that feeling, at least you're the kind that's useful if someone has a heart attack on an airplane.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

SNORT. Well there is that

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

You should've topped Meyers by now. I like your writing waaaay more then I ever did hers.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well thank you very much. If I could take all the praise I get here and put it on a cover letter to an agent I would

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

Hee, you should. Love that icon by the way.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks it went up recently at ...hagaren manga?

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I think you're karmically owed on the mess that was your medical career. The Powers should see to it that it becomes the foundation for a successful series of novels at the very least. At least you have a huge leg up on most other writers when it comes to medical realism and the responses of the human body to injuries and illness (and poisons, and medical interventions, and the stages of decay). You'd be following a goodly number of medical doctors into the literary field, too. I don't know why, but the two professions seem to complement each other.

I think all writer types were tormented outcasts in school. You just can't be an intelligent introvert and succeed socially, especially when social success is measured in the number of keg parties you get wasted at. I confess I had a privileged position in high school, though, since my dad was a teacher there and the mean kids didn't dare pick on me in front of him. I'm guessing that saved me a ton of grief. I had most of my social problems in middle school, but kids that young aren't really that sophisticated at bullying yet, and looking back, some of the things they did to make my twelve-year-old self miserable seem almost comical now, which definitely takes the sting out of the memories.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you would think karma would start paying me back any time now for medical school! I'm waiting on it.

Oh yes saved you tons of grief. I waited for the wasted at a kegger until i got to college. now college I loved