Think people like Leonardo da Vinci (artist and helicopter designer), Benjamin Franklin (founding father, inventor, and all-around lady-killer), Paul Robeson (scholar, athlete, actor, and civil rights activist), and even Steve Jobs (engineer, businessman extraordinaire, and marketing mastermind). In case you don’t have your pocket dictionary handy, a polymath is a person with a wide range of knowledge or learning. But the reason we don’t use the word much these days has less to do with vocabulary than it has to do with practicality: there aren’t a lot of polymaths around anymore. That is not to make a diagnosis, of course - but an example of a situation where an underlying issue can be overlooked.Polymath is one of those words more likely to show up on the SAT than in everyday conversation. For example, even depression/anxiety disorders can present life challenges similar to what you describe. And to the OP, I would kindly suggest focusing less on the idea of being a polymath and instead consider your differentials thoroughly.
I agree with the advice for career counseling though. I thought it was so exciting to "see" didactic information through patients/cases, and likewise to see things that I didn't have a context for and later be able to put them into context.īut we're all different and have all had different experiences. Clinicals were the opportunity to get in there see/do things and be around people who knew what they were talking about. They were so much better than being forced to sit in a room while someone stumbled to read the text or slides aloud. I didn't like clinical when I was in school, and I don't remember anyone who did.
There is no perfect job, but there is a job that is a good fit for you.ĭaydreaming about business ventures and artistic opportunities may be a way of avoiding committing to a solid career path.Īuthor, " Your Last Nursing Class: How to Land Your First Nursing Job".and your next! Remember that there are mundane and tedious aspects to every career. Since nursing is not working out for you, consider taking a career aptitude test to gain insight into a career best suited to your strengths and aptitudes. Lacking compassion and "hating" clinicals and bedside nursing does not bode well for being a nurse. In addition to being a polymath, you also say that you lack compassion and hate clinicals. Knowing a lot about a lot of subjects and loving learning is wonderful, but at 40 years old, you need to channel these traits into a viable career path if you want to make money. I had to look this up- a polymath is a person who knows a lot about a lot of subjects. Do you have any suggestions of where to go from here? I love learning, but hate going to clinical. I hate bedside nursing, I'm not good at remember lab values (I know, small detail), and I feel that I lack the compassion for patients that a nurse should have, though I'm very good at faking it. I'm 40 years old, and I just want to make money rather than be in school another year. I come from an artistic background and my mind just gravitates there all the time. I'm very much a polymath and often spew ideas of other business ventures to the point were I spend more time in my day planning these pretend businesses than studying. I'm in my second semester of my associates degree and I'm ready to quit for two reasons: 1.