Is the dentist career hard to study?

Should I be a dentist?!?1?

• When I was in the seventh grade I laid in my bed one night and it came to me as if God spoke to me. It was if he said to go be a dentist! And as time went on I of course changed my mind and changed it again, and I'm now in my freshman year first semester in college. From humble beginnings in high school I gracefully started only to graduate high school with a 2.9 GPA. I went on to my local community college and began in Pre-Dentisrty. I chose the community college because of my family's income and my own self doubt. Even in college I have begun to change my mind again and again. I have gone from being a dentist to a nurse.. And I keep changing my mind and it doesn't matter that I change it to I keep coming back to what I first started with, Dentistry. I try to talk myself out of the career of dentistry in so many ways by saying things like "I only want to do it for how much they make" or "I don't really love medicine" and these things when I sit down and actually evaluate those things I find them to be untruths. I find myself at home lazy and not wanting to study but I still won't to be a dentist. So I'm unsure of what exactly that means to me. In that same essence I'm simply scared because of the discouraging people around me simply make me losing my drive and ambition and my grades dramatically drop as a result of these "Debbie Downers". So now in my freshman first semester I have destroyed my collegiate GPA already, but I still have faith that it can be done. I also at times want to simply drop out because of my grades because any dental school would simply laugh at me upon graduating with a GPA as hectic as mine. Because I'm not stupid and know that they don't care that much about me to see what I'm really like and what lies within my heart. I know I want to be a dentist, because it's all I come back to and it's all I can see myself doing. I have placed myself in every possible career, and I only feel at home when I think about what I started with. In fact I find one of the only encouraging people to be my girlfriend, and my advisor. My mom says things like "well of you don't make better grades you won't be accepted into dental school" even though that's true she doesn't need to tell me what I already know. I have a great love for health care and medicine, but even if I brought my grades to what I once did and that was B's I know event that isn't good enough for the dental schools.. They want grades that range from 3.50 - 4.00. I find paying for college to be an issue also, and I see no hope. I get full grants and whatnot but that isn't going to be enough when I rise to the challenge of University Academia. All I ever desire for myself is to be successful, and right now I'm not even that and haven't gotten the encouragement to even make that happen. So any advise and encouraging words would be greatly appreciated!!

• Answer:

  Go and study, be a dentist. You keep doubting yourself. If you keep coming back to the dentist then stop making excuses and do it..you sound like s smart guy, follow your heart, not what your parents want but what you want.