About me

 So, how did I choose my future career?

We have to start from the very beginning to answer this particular question. Let's go back 18 years ago. 

It all started with young Mark-Olivier who had big dreams. First, he did not know what he wanted to be. As he grew older, he started to play "doctor" forcing his family to be his first patients. At least, they were supporting him by gifting him "doctor toys" such as a plastic stethoscope, scalpel, etc. When he learned how to read, they bought him books about the human body. (This is also how his family encouraged him in his obsession with reading.) 

It was the beginning of everything. 

For a time, he wanted to be an "eye doctor". He spent a lot of time at the hospital surrounded by optometrists because of his eye problems. 

But then, his dream to become an ophthalmologist faded away when he saw a video about eye surgery. Since he already had problems with his vision, the thought of maybe permanently blinding someone in a surgery who had gone bad made him afraid. 

However, it did not discourage him from wanting to be a doctor. So, when he started secondary school, he still had his big dream. He maybe wanted to be a neurologist or psychiatrist. He still wanted to be a doctor who will help people but he would also learn about the body and how it works. He always had this curiosity for the body's mechanisms. He wanted to learn more and use his knowledge to help and guide people. Also, to be honest, anything to do with blood, muscles, nerves, organs interested him. His third secondary was the best because of his science class. They were learning about the human body. Everything related to it made him feel odd as if he was now aware of every little mechanism that was working on his own body. Yeah, it is weird. 

Although he did not really have experience in the field, he just wanted to be a doctor as if the profession was calling him. Well, it is probably not predestined but he always had this strange obsession with medical things. 

Secondary school hit and his dream faded a little. By the end of his high school, he just wanted to be a doctor. Anything would please him (except being an ophthalmologist) if he could become a doctor. 

Do not think he was not good at school. He was good. He just was not the best of his classes and the older he grew, the more aware he was about the competition and how difficult it was to enter a medical program. 

However, something else came up: the Canadian army. It was a revolution. Maybe another way to help and save people? He never thought about it as an option, but then it became one. So, as he started CÉGEP, he was a little lost. All his life, he wanted to be a doctor. Now, there was the army? Something from the perspective of becoming a better version of himself while trying to help people was calling him. In the army, he would have the opportunity to have a healthier life. A life more organized, more interesting... 

But he was in Natural Sciences to be a doctor... right? Well, after doing some research, it appeared to him that he could mix his two options: doctor and soldier. He could become a military doctor. Of course, he still searched for backup plans (plan B, C, D... Z) but having a new purpose helped him get back on track with his studies. 

Now, well, he still does not want to have high hopes but he is more motivated than ever. He is learning to love school and to learn. He is finding a new way to see education. 

That's how I, now, want to become a military doctor.