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This isn’t a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.
I’m in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I’d be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.
I’d recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I’d say medicine is probably an ok field for you.
What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you’ve already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can’t get elsewhere?
Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don’t pick medicine, pick something else.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not doctor or lawyer. Someone who wished they knew more broadly about specialisations and society before comitting.
Medicine has a lot of branches and possibilites that you might want to consider, from phlebotomy (analysis of samples) to neurosurgery. If you enjoy diagnosing problems, physical experiments and actions, or interpersonal empathetic skills, this might be a better field for you.
Law involves lots of research and documentation, and analysis of text based rules against each other. If you like reading/writing copious amounts of text, analysing rules, discussions, verbal communications, this might suit you more.
Accountancy will involve more number use in abstract, and more computer use to manage calculations.