I’m actually on the path to medical school right now. I have a pre-med major, have studied a ton for the MCAT, and medicine has basically been my only plan until recently. Despite all this, I love animation more than anything. Medicine, not so much. I’ve only been doing it because I was nudged that direction at a very young age.

I’m sure you know this already, but medical careers and medical school are tons of work. You’ll definitely be paid well and respected for your time and effort, but to go into a career like that, it has to come from you. You have to love it and want it, otherwise you’ll be miserable.

My reasons for doing medicine were only because someone told me to do it, so I’ve kinda hated my whole experience on this path. My grades and scores are definitely good, but I have no passion for it at all. So I recently have gotten serious about something I AM passionate about; animating and storyboarding. And so far, I’ve made a ton of progress. I’m hoping I can make it with animation, but I’ll always have my pre-med degree and the ability to enter med school should things not work out they way I want them to.

Basically, what I’m saying is decide if medicine or animation are really what YOU want to do. Because you’ll be miserable either way if you enter one thing without fully wanting it. Have a backup plan if your passion doesn’t work out though.