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Thanatosian posted:Maybe this is a stupid question, but... have you asked your doctor about going into the Peace Corps when your kidney problems have had four years to advance? The answer is very likely "no". http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/Medical_Restrictions OP, you seem like a nice enough lady, but specifically peace corps might be out of reach with both sad-brains and kidney failure. Would other volunteer organizations/groups fulfill the same desire to help without doing long stints that could put you at risk of dying with either bad kidneys OR transplant failure due to immunosuppressant drugs not making it out to your site on time? Like you may want to look at alternative methods than Peace Corps to do that. You really, really want to get a degree that has at least reasonable expectations of job growth/pay. If you can hack your way through one of the primary engineering (mechanical, chemical, electrical) and find personal satisfaction outside of work (and keep up with self-care, engineering can be a time sink in undergrad), I'd really go for that. Probably my best friend in undergrad was a fellow engineering dude, and he's doing alright with a bunch of school debt, because at 65k a year, he at least can keep up with his loans and have some money for other stuff, with his fun time being music and art. With him being a few years out, he's looking at his next job being 85-90k now. His sister did art history, and while teaching is an honorable profession, it sure doesn't pay as well, and "pay well" is going to be necessary to keep up with staying alive with kidney failure on the horizon. The Dipshit fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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