Taking the classes and reading the books really opened up my eyes how much happier people are when they throw convention to the wind and just be themselves with other like-minded people.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My ex-wife is a clinical sexologist and I myself almost got my doctorate in the field too

Did you miss the finals because of perfecting your career choice?

All kidding aside, I am honestly curious as to why you didn't get your doctorate, if you're very close to it, if you're willing to tell the public about it?

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty severely physically disabled. I have a degenerative bone disease called polyostotic fibrous dysplasia with Mccune-Albright syndrome. My bone marrow is slowly turning into tumors, causing fractures as I walk, move, exist. It also causes my endocrine to go hyper, hypo, or just shut off at random. So I'm pretty sick.

I didn't realize all the clinical hours needed for all the certificates and such that I needed to complete the doctorate. My body was just not letting me get the work in.

I was getting my higher educations at Sexology Institute in Miami semi remotely. Since we knew the dean personally, I asked if I could use my credits and go for another doctorate offered since I had all the core classes and a ton of sexology specific classes. The best one offered with no clinical requirements was a philosophy degree.

I wasn't going to use it for work since I'm disabled. So I knew that I'd be able to use it for what I wanted to use it for, and that was teaching others, academia, life coaching, that sort of stuff.

It's also super helpful in running businesses as you have a changed perspective in a lot of things.

I was also able to graduate on time too after putting in some extra hours. Another benefit, I suppose, of being disabled

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing, and sorry to hear about your health predicament. Hang in there.