What profession should a "rightbrained" person choose?

Question

I've never been good in math. I've always had to struggle with anything above basic. I think I got it from my mother who had the same problem. This is why I gave up my dream of getting into med-school. I have 2 questions:

1. Is there ANY way a person who is not naturally good in math to improove to a point you can choose to study with a major engineering or medecine?

2. What can I as a "right-brained" person or a 'creative' person choose as major?
I want a stable and traditional job with a fairly decent salary in the future.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

First off, the "right brained" / "left brained" theories are just old-wives tales. If you are only using it in a figurative manner to express your difficulty with math and science, that is one thing, but I don't want you to believe that you face additional hurdles as a left-handed person if you meant it in a literal manner - studies have never been able to show any evidence that "lefties" are somehow disadvantaged in the hard sciences.

But I will treat your comment as firgurative and give you the answers you seek:

1. Anything is possible with effort, and I wonder what you mean by not being "naturally good at math"? Almost everyone has difficulty learning past the basics because usually the way math is taught past algebra is in a theoretical manner. I was good at the basics but struggled with calculus quite a bit and still managed to get an engineering degree. All you need is to stay focused, get tutored when necessary, and hopefully find a good teacher here and there.

2. I have a somewhat cynical view on this issue, the terms "creative" and "stable, traditional job" seem to be at odds with each other. Very few career tracks are that stable, the only ones that come to mind are engineering, medicine, law and possibly higher education.

Certainly you can apply creativity in any job, but it sounds like you are talking about career paths that have a primary focus on creativity such as marketing, sales, or as an art instructor. Those types of jobs can be financially rewarding (well at least the first two), but are certainly not stable. Graphic design could be a nice balance of creativity and stableness, but not clear on what you mean by "creativity".

Bottom line is that you need to choose a field that is interesting to you and not worry about how hard it will be. If you love what you do, you will make it work. I know a lot of doctors that struggled heavily in med-school but persevered, same with engineers.

If you like Medicine than you should follow your dream and not avoid it because of fears you haven't tested. Even if you choose not to be a physician there are plethora of fields in medicine that pay very well and are stable, so again, don't limit your options prematurely.

Answer 2

i think its a quesiton of practice and dedication. i am a right brained person too. creative, i like humanities and stuff but not math or science! i'm in two biology classes as a college senior and its killing me! but the things, you just gotta be dedicated, do what you have to do.
why are you interested in engineering? because i think that is all like math and science. if yo uwant t obe a doctor though, i totally understand that. as that is one of my aspirations as well and i'm currently studying psychology, and when statistics and bio psych came around i barely passed. but it results that if you put a lot of effort into it, yes you can do it. but peopel without a natural talent for it, will probably never be as good as those who have this. i always forget scientific principles and mathmatical logic only months after i learn it, whereas i remember everything about, say, foreign languages.
i would pick a career that is most interesting to you, and get past hte math if its necessary

Answer 3

As believers (of any of the Monotheistic religions), we are all called to the worship of God/Allah, yet, there are those that have the middle and the compassion and the determination that could and do lead guy into the "gentle". many that have felt the indoors promptings to furnish their lives for the provider of God/Allah, ought to often walked away. for that reason, contained in the Qur'an, there's a verse that announces "Allah courses those he will down the main suitable direction and shall we bypass off track those that he additionally chooses" (paraphrased). Having a unfastened-will - God/Allah won't tension somebody to make the determination to stay with or stay for Him. So, those those that answer that decision, we are often the "chosen" ones. :)

Answer 4

The further you go in mathematics, the more creativity matters. High-level math problems often have more than one method of solution.

Find a college that teaches "Harvard math" ; most community colleges in California do nowadays.