Scrubs, Med School, and Advertising

"The second you stop blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back."

Not a lot of my friends know that I wanted to be a doctor.  And that I actually took up a pre-med course in the Ateneo.  I took the requisite Comparative Verterbrate Anatomy with Bro. Yago (with the cats and the sharks), General and Analytical Chem, and even contemplated about getting Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry as a super-senior.

I chose - however - a different path.

I chose to be a media planner in the Philippines - at Basic Advertising.  And that's where it all started.  I enjoyed playing around with the numbers.  I learned that numbers had a lot of stories behind them - and that I could tease them out if I did more than what was customary.

Many times, during my first year in advertising, I tried to go back to school - to pursue my med dreams.  I even reviewed and passed the pre-med entrance tests whilst juggling the demands of McDonald's and other accounts that were assigned to me.  (Yeah, people didn't know that either.  I did it all under wraps.)

But I chose to stay on instead.

And so here I am.

Do I regret not taking up medicine?  A little.  I would be lying if I said I don't at all regret not going to med school. 

But life has been good.