I wanted to be a MD/PhD. I wanted to help people and thought being a doctor and doing medical research would be the best life for me. Also, it would keep my financially secure as well.

I did an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and got the marks needed to go into medicine so I was all set. In my third year of pharmacy we had to do hospital rounds with physicians and I completely hated it. Being a good physician means keeping abreast of the latest clinical studies and whenever I read them, I wanted to fall asleep. Thinking outside the box is strongly discouraged and is dangerous. You're dealing with people's lives and every decision you make has to be rooted in evidence based medicine.

Also, medical research, although not as restricting, isn't like the days of Banting and Best discovering Insulin. I was working in a lab for a supervisor whose raison d'etre was studying one receptor and ligand in the immune system. How that relates to a disease state was for another lab or drug company to discover. You're just part of this large machine of academic researchers around the world discovering things that another lab may or may not use to cure a disease state. Again, whenever I would participate in journal clubs, I wanted to fall asleep.

Instead I finished my undergraduate in pharmacy and went into pharma with the goal of getting an MBA. I work in a corporate pharmacy setting on strategy and business development and I absolutely love it. Thinking outside the box is strongly encouraged.