I don’t want to be a doctor anymore. How do I break the news to my parents?

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:48:47 +0000

I lost interest in the field about a year ago. Since then I’ve kind of been wandering in college, taking random science classes, since I thought I should do dentistry instead. I didn’t do too well in college since I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and I hated the college. So I’m back with my parents now and I’m starting at a medical school near them in about a month (they work overseas, both of them are physicians). I haven’t started yet but I really feel that I don’t want to do this. My dad told me a few weeks ago he didn’t think I was cut out for it, but we still went through with the the registration/initial testing, etc. But maybe I’m just not cut out for it .. I don’t really like studying organs and body systems.. So I thought about my talents and what I like to do and realized to myself that I want to be a teacher instead. It was an idea I played with before but never really actually pursued. I remembered that even when I was younger, I took on a variety of tutoring jobs and did well and enjoyed it. And in school I effortlessly aced english and english tests and did really swell on the english portion of the SAT I without any previous studying at all, 700 or so, but for math, I constantly needed a tutor in school, and even with the extra prep for it, I didn’t do as well as in english. And science is just blah..So how can I break this news to my parents who are bound to be disappointed, maybe even angry?
Thanks guys for your answers. I appreciate all of them!

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I don’t want to be a doctor anymore. How do I break the news to my parents?