The future, and whatever it may hold.

It's odd.
I haven't yet sat even my AS-levels, and yet for the last year and a bit, I've been obsessively grooming university profiles, to see which catch my fancy. To be wholly honest, my choices tend to be based on architecture. Consequently, topping the list (with most attractive to me first) are Cambridge (the older colleges), Edinburgh, Oxford (the older colleges) and St. Andrew's.
All of these are universities that offer Medical courses. If I'm truthful, I've ONLY looked at universities that offer Medicine, because they tend to be better thought of.
Anyway, I know where I want to apply to - even college-specific in Oxbridge - but what happens AFTER is what baffles me...

I may apply to do medicine.
Assuming any of these Red-Brick establishments want me (and it's a pretty big assumption), and assuming I attain the required grades (yet another MAMMOTH assumption), what would I do after?
I could always go and work for the NHS. It's what most Medical graduates do.
But I find the armed forces to be quite attractive.
There's something about the thought of being called "Doc" by various people, junior or senior to myself, and viewed as the dashing, heroic lifesaver, that's quite appealing to my vanity.
It also sounds pretty damn interesting, and exciting.
The Royal Army Medical Corps is the body exherting the largest pull upon myself at the minute, although I don't know why.

Then again, I may do Music.
Now, not being amazing gifted in the performance department (and that's NOT an innuendo...), I mean the theory side of Music. Again, I'd probably pick places based on their architecture, and where the best organs are located, and the best churches. Cambridge (perhaps unsurprisingly) tops the list once more.
But what would I do after a Music degree?
I could teach. But I hate children.
I could lecture. But you can't do that until you've taught. Which brings us back to the previous problem of hating children.
My other option under consideration is to join the Corps of Army Music.
Here, as a member of one of twenty-two bands, I'd be able to perform often, and on a variety of instruments. I even know the band I'd want to join - The Band of the Blues and Royals. I'm an animal-lover, and being a constituent-part of a mounted band would be utterly amazing.
The uniform's also pretty snazzy.
The Band of H. M.'s Royal Marines would be my other choice, even though it's not a part of the CoAM. Simply because they are gods.
In either of these organisations, joining with a BMus would mean I'd start in a high-ranking position, instead of joining, and then working to earn my degree whilst there, like most of the band-members.

Another career I considered for a while was Actuary, which is more or less a licence to print money.
However, that was kicked rather smartly into touch by the fact that the word "Mathematics" will be missing from my A-level profile. I (rather foolishly) chose Physics over it, and have lived to regret it ever since (see my previous blog for more details...).

Ah well. I suppose that, as long as I work hard, things will sort themselves out.
I have a vague semblence of an outline of an idea of a plan of what I think I might possibly maybe want to do.
Not very concrete, to be honest, but it's a plan nonetheless.

I don't exactly know what the point of this blog was, or is, apart from possibly just being me putting the plan down in print.
Whatever, thank you for reading.

End.