So, the ever-present question: what would you be doing with your life if you hadn’t chosen to pursue medicine?

Personally, I probably would have been a database administrator specializing in Oracle/SQL. That’s what I was studying when I decided I just could not bring myself to work for someone else’s capitalistic profit and provide no true benefit to humanity. If I had changed paths after finishing my post-bacc, I probably would have gone into genetic research to make use of that aptitude for database management.

I’m particularly interested to see the difference in answers from traditional versus nontraditional medical students.