Working In Non-Ideal Conditions

I was just thinking today that you never work in ideal conditions. If you did, then you'd probably not think much of your situation. For as long as I can remember, life has never been ideal. There was always some imperfection. Consider my current situation.

I'm going to try to go to medical school to become a medical scientist. Ideally, I would have taken all the prerequisites when I was a college student. Instead, I majored in physics, which didn't require most of those prerequisites, namely general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biology. I did cover the math and physics requirements for entrance to medical school. Still, this is far from ideal.

I now have to somehow get the money to pay for my premedical coursework at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, another non-ideal situation. I'd probably use my disability checks plus any funds I can get from my family. Further, it's hard to get a parking space at UNLV and the bus to the campus is usually full. My point is it's the same old story.

All of us have to work in conditions we wish were different. In college, I never had enough time to study. "If only I had studied eight more hours a day, I could have earned an A," I'd moan every semester in college. Dorm rooms didn't have enough privacy, or my apartment was too far from campus. If only my class were not so difficult, and so on. Life never is ideal.

When I worked as a software engineer, I lived far from my work. I had to commute an hour each way. If only I lived closer to work, but those places were more expensive than my cheap place farther away from the office. There is nothing new about what I'm saying. Most of you probably already realize that.

So as far as medical school goes, I'm going to have to prepare for it on the proverbial shoestring budget, living far from the campus, and facing who knows what imperfections. That's just life, I'm starting to realize.