I feel like I know a lot of T1's (I'm think more than T2's b/c they may have already had careers when they were diagnosed...) who have gone into medicine (nurses, endocrinologists....). Has having diabetes affected your choices (or future choices)? I went into a health care field (speech pathology) but it has nothing to do w/ diabetes. But, I think I felt comfortable in a hospital after years of drs appts. And I knew I needed a job where I'd get health insurance. lol.
well im not at a age where im working yet but i totally have my mind set on being a doctor ( endo or er doc) i think i grew up in the enviorment and im comfortable in it
diabetes definitely has influenced my job decision. before diabetes, i had no idea what i wanted to do, but after, i wanted to be what i didn't have. all i wanted was someone who could help me through the psychological part of it and decided to become a chronic and terminal disease psychologist.
I don't think that it's affected my career choice. Originally I wanted to be a forensic pathologist but not because of diabetes but because I found the human body interesting. Once I realized how much schooling went into that career (another 12 years after high school), I went with my second choice, lawyer.
My parents always said I should become an pediatric endocrinologist because Louisville doesn't have that many but I don't like people enough to be a doctor and I don't want my life to revolve around the disease anymore than it is.
I feel like I know a lot of T1's (I'm think more than T2's b/c they may have already had careers when they were diagnosed...) who have gone into medicine (nurses, endocrinologists....). Has having diabetes affected your choices (or future choices)? I went into a health care field (speech pathology) but it has nothing to do w/ diabetes. But, I think I felt comfortable in a hospital after years of drs appts. And I knew I needed a job where I'd get health insurance. lol.
Just wondering if this is a trend. (:
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I like to be connected to my job. I was an enginner with B-D, we made insulin syringes. Now I work for a pharma co and design vaccine and other medicine factories, I design laboratories too for research =) maybe it is related.
im going to be a doctor or marine biologist. diabetes has affected my desision because before i was like i want to be a marine biologist and train dolphins and whales! and i thought all the gross stuff about a doctor would gross me out(i completely ignored the fact that there would be gross stuff about a marine biologist). but guess what now all "that gross stuff" is a daily part of my life. and it isnt gross. its just life now.
I always wanted a job where I helped/taught people (dr, nurse, teacher) for as long as I can remember. However, I think that all of the nurses who helped me when I was diagnosed (when I was 15) and ever since then helped aim me towards nursing even more. However, I don't work specifically with diabetics and possibly would have ended up a nurse even without diabetes. So, I don't know for sure how much being diabetic influenced my choice.
Having diabetes hasn't influenced my career choice at all. Of course, I'm only a junior in high school, but I am going to go to school to become a journalist. I've already started becoming involved in print journalism by editing for my school newspaper, and also writing for my city paper. I love writing, and that has nothing to do with diabetes.
I've also thought about being a pre-school teacher as an alternative because I love working with kids, but that doesn't really have anything to do with diabetes either. I'd rather write and/or edit for a newspaper or magazine, though.
I am currently a teacher & I can say that diabetes definitely made me want to become a teacher that understood Diabetes & Disabilities, however, I wish I went into Child Life or something to do specifically with Diabetes. I just wish I knew how to go about getting a job in the Diabetes Field - until then I'll be in the classroom.
Personally for me....no it hasnt influenced my job decision. My intentions were to join the Marine Corp. But that ended fast with being a diabetic. I was months away from signing up. So through out highschool i didnt prepare or apply to colleges. My life was to be dedicated to this country. But that didnt work out how i planned. Thanks Betes! and my job lineup after that was from UPS for a few years to doing carpentry. I need the manly job.