Can I join a circus and study in the same time?

[yoyo]

So, I am graduating from high school in two months and going to college for pre-med. Last week I went to a circus (animal-free) for the first time in my life, and fell in love with it. I feel like performing with the circus family is the right place for me. I actually cried about it when I went home because I kept thinking and thinking about how happy I was at the circus and felt like I want to join and be part of the group over there. I looked up the performers on facebook (their personal facebook) and feel like adding them and get to know them better.

Although I am a straight As person and love medicine. but I cant believe what has happened to me after watching a circus live. I am very talented also, I have a very excellent dancing skills( pop, african and belly dance) My family experienced my dancing and talents since I was very little and I drive them crazy by how I am an excellent dancer.

When I was thinking to join a circus I was thinking to perform strap and stage dancing.

I chose to do pre-med because I was looking after a happy life and I knew I was able to, because I am a very hard working straight As person. I need help, can I do both or What should I do?? to overcome my love to circuses.

[Russell E]

Circus work requires lots of practice and travel. If you are a student ,there is no way to do both

[baxterville]

Pre-med is one of the most demanding courses of study you could choose, so you won't have time to train for circus life. And most circus performers come from circus families, so they've literally been training their entire lives for those jobs. There are very few openings for the jobs you mentioned and they tend to be filled by people already within the system who've essentially been understudies for years.

I hate to be a dream killer, but it sounds like you've just developed a fleeting fixation with a lifestyle you haven't experienced -- based on a performance. Entertainers' lives always look glamorous, but that's because the shows are designed to create that illusion. A circus performer is lucky to be working in his/her specialty (many still work with their circuses, but not in the spotlight) past the age of 35 because of injuries. And someone who's spent his/her childhood, adolescence and the first decade plus of adulthood as an aerial dancer or acrobat doesn't have much in the way of marketable skills to take away from that environment.

You don't have to join a circus just because you love circuses.