Hi guys! I loved the advice that you guys gave on my last post
To recap, I'm 16, almost 17 year old girl, starting college in Fall 2017. I want to be a computer science major with a premed track, and go into medical school.
Much of the advice I received was from people telling me that I didn't need to change my career path. But today, I read something about how women with PhD's have a harder time, because they're too career oriented.
Again, I'd like to state that I'm equally or more family oriented, I want to get married between 23-25 and have at least 2 kids at a young age. My parents are pretty RP, my mom married my dad (28) at 22, and had my older sister at 23, me at 28. My dad was earning a lot of money even at that age in India, and he didn't think my mom needed to work, so she is a housewife. She still does a crap-ton of volunteering, teaches free art lessons, works out 2 hours a day and cooks and cleans.
So basically, I guess what I'm asking is, can a girl have it all? Can I have a career as a radiologist (which would only really start at 30, when I finish college at 21, med school at 25 and residency at 30) and still have 2 kids and take care of them (I love kids, I babysit all the time and have a part-time job as a swim instructor), and be a good wife?
Or should I just be a general practitioner?
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