Wise words from Ashish patel ( I want ease, and a good leverage of my energy and time)

2 Suggestions (1 short, 1 long), based on a career that started in medicine, went into a health tech startup that sky rocketed, and now ended up in finance as an investor.

1) Find people who have walked the walk. There are some awesome people in this Group and on LinkedIn who have made some interesting career choices. Message them, and ask them for 30 mins of their time to talk through their career. There are a shocking number of people who give advice despite having never made any of these kinds of choices themselves. Remember, bad advice is worse than no advice, so make sure you are taking recommendations from people who have thought this through before.

2) (The Longer Bit):

I have no idea what you might end up doing as there are nearly an infinite number of paths you can go down. If you consider that the physics students, geography students, history students etc. at your university are all going to get some kind of job, it's a reasonable assumption that you can find another career. The question is there not "is there anything I can do?" but rather "what should I do?" Given there are a nearly infinite list of jobs, you need a framework to help figure out what next. This applies equally after medschool/bachelor's degree, after FY1/FY2 or indeed at any other point.

My suggestion would be to bucket things into "push factors" (things about medicine that you don't like that are causing you want to leave the career), and pull factors (things that if a job were to offer it, it would make it extremely attractive.) For each list, place your answers in order of priority, take the top 2-3 of each list and now you have 4-6 variables which deeply matter to you, some negatives that the new career should not feature, and some positives you want the new career to offer. Re-order this list in sequence of priority again.

Read through this final list, be brutally honest with yourself and painfully realistic. For example, jobs that offer high pay tend to require long hours and often extended periods of stress. If earning lots of money is important to you, be prepared to work hard. Or maybe you want to work directly with disadvantaged people? Unlikely to be lucrative (may well pay less than being a doctor), but could be fulfilling. Start to think about what you are prepared to optimise for, and what you are prepared to trade off.

THEN look at potential careers. Without having a sense of prorities you can end up chasing down every idea and end up boiling the ocean to make a cup of hot water. You don't need to rule out every career to find the one you want if you can think about your priorities.