hi everyone. 10 months ago i posted about how my indian parents are forcing me into dentistry bc they want me to have a secure future after immigrating here and basically living in poverty but i want to go into politics (i'll attach evidence that it was my thread). i stopped replying on the thread bc everyone was being horrible and telling me 'im stealing peoples places' and that i dont have passion and honestly i feel like it was just a lot of angry anxious wannabe dental students that couldn't handle the fact that someone might be better than them but the thread is closed now for some reason so I can't even respond in it.
so for the update:
I applied to do dentistry at Kings, bristol, cardiff and newcastle and my fifth option was politics at LSE. I got interviews from all of them (not lse) and offers from all as well. i firmed kings a week ago as I got that offer quite late.
so you can all hate me if you want. you can say i did the wrong thing or i'm gonna regret it or whatever but a rude awakening is that most people do careers for the money. bankers do it for the money and people in healthcare do too although they'll walk into the application process with their 'i want to help people' waffle and convince themselves they're not. i felt so inferior to other dental applicants because of this but honestly i've come to a point where i know that most of those applicants probably had mum and dad put them into private school and pay for dental applicant courses and work experience etc. so being able to choose a job for the passion is honestly a privilege. i never had that privilege. since posting the original post, the cost of living crisis has only gotten worse and inflation has ruined my family- i don't even eat three meals on most days so i'm not going to let any self-righteous person tell me otherwise. i'm smart enough to go into a route i want so i will absolutely pick the one that will help me be financially comfortable for once in my life.
thank you to people that supported my decision and understood where i was coming from and to the ones that didn't, sorry but thanks for your input anyways