Before med school, I tried to get a job as a minister. I felt that, although I was an atheist, I would be pretty good at consoling people and such; I also have a fondness for total depravity.
Anyways, the church elders were always very polite, but pretty much unanimous in deciding that I lacked certain prerequisites for the job. I'm not the type to make a federal case out of these things, and I suppose I could have tried to go all Unitarian Universalist or something, but in the end I let it drop. Some jobs, your beliefs just render you unqualified for.
Not medicine, though.
"Younger than Yesterday" by the Byrds .
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*Released in 1967, the fourth Byrds album Younger than Yesterday saw the
band saw the band having to commit itself to release a record after the
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