• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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
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      1 year ago

      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