Hi everyone, I'm Ale from Naples, Italy and I'm exited to be here and so grateful that EA exists.
After surviving a heart attack during my last year of high school and being gifted the possibility to live a hopefully long life thanks to an innovative heart surgery technique performed by an equipe of doctors and biomedical engineers, I gave up my plans of studying either political science or medicine (the latter due to the mandatory preselettive test that took place in the time I was in hospital) thinking that biomedical engineering was my one true call to better people's lives.
After one year studying in engineering, and after coming across EA articles, I soon realized how the most obviously-helpful careers are not the ones who actually have the strongest impact on human wellness and safety.
I'm now trying to find a way to acquire as much skills and knowledge as possible within the very limited resources of my own territory and to understand how can I realistically build the most impactful career for myself and form connection and collaborations with others interested in human needs.
I still have to choose if I want to continue studying in biomedical engineering even if it's still an emergent and quite lacking field in my own territory and try to figure out innovative ways to contribute to exponentially improve people's health within the knowledge I'll be given and currently job outlook , or if I want to combine my lifelong passion for political science and philosophy and my newfound love and skills for coding to pursue an education in informatics to aim to better study and comprehend AI and all the possible impacts it can have on humanity (which is still limited by the lack of resources in my city and the fear of ending up with a time consuming job that wont even pay the bills, but seem a little bit more possible given the attention my university is giving to AI)
I can't wait to figure it all out and I'm hopeful the knowledge shared in sites like EA will help
Hi everyone, I'm Ale from Naples, Italy and I'm exited to be here and so grateful that EA exists.
After surviving a heart attack during my last year of high school and being gifted the possibility to live a hopefully long life thanks to an innovative heart surgery technique performed by an equipe of doctors and biomedical engineers, I gave up my plans of studying either political science or medicine (the latter due to the mandatory preselettive test that took place in the time I was in hospital) thinking that biomedical engineering was my one true call to better people's lives.
After one year studying in engineering, and after coming across EA articles, I soon realized how the most obviously-helpful careers are not the ones who actually have the strongest impact on human wellness and safety.
I'm now trying to find a way to acquire as much skills and knowledge as possible within the very limited resources of my own territory and to understand how can I realistically build the most impactful career for myself and form connection and collaborations with others interested in human needs.
I still have to choose if I want to continue studying in biomedical engineering even if it's still an emergent and quite lacking field in my own territory and try to figure out innovative ways to contribute to exponentially improve people's health within the knowledge I'll be given and currently job outlook , or if I want to combine my lifelong passion for political science and philosophy and my newfound love and skills for coding to pursue an education in informatics to aim to better study and comprehend AI and all the possible impacts it can have on humanity (which is still limited by the lack of resources in my city and the fear of ending up with a time consuming job that wont even pay the bills, but seem a little bit more possible given the attention my university is giving to AI)
I can't wait to figure it all out and I'm hopeful the knowledge shared in sites like EA will help