At 19, Carl Allamby became a mechanic and opened his own auto repair shop — but he never forgot his childhood dream of becoming a doctor one day. In his mid-30s, he started taking college classes at night while working full time, and 13 years later, he graduated from medical school at the age of 47.
, our families and friends and our cars rank high on the list," Allamby told Fox News Digital in a recent phone interview.
"We faced economic hardships throughout my upbringing and were on welfare for what seemed to be my entire childhood," said Allamby. "And if not for government handouts," he said, "we would have been without food on many occasions." Allamby also said that "the trajectory toward medicine and other white-collar careers takes a constant focus on education, exposure to the desired occupations, enhanced curricula and having representative examples to model oneself after. All these things were either non-existent or unreachable," he said, under his circumstances when he was growing up.
After a period of time, he needed a change — so he became a student at night while continuing to work his day job.He first enrolled at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, starting in 2006 when he was 34. Originally he hoped to get a business degree, as Medpage Today noted of Allamby. He was "always infatuated with the way things worked — and the human body seemed to be the most complex of anything I encountered, which always fascinated me," he told Fox News Digital."After my decision to pursue medicine, I started volunteering at a hospital in the Cleveland area," he said.
Allamby credits the support of his family, especially his wife, Kim, a physical therapist, for getting him through it.He was determined not to let his age difference hinder or intimidate him as he studied alongside his more youthful classmates. "In my previous life as a master technician, I worked on almost every make and model and fixed everything from brakes to major engine and transmission rebuilds," he said.
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