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I'm making this topic for everyone who has strayed off the path of medicine or feels like they are about to. Whether it's burnout, depression, inability to get residency, what have you.
I did not enjoy clinical rotations, to put it mildly. Working ungodly hours, high stress, toxic hospital environments, losing the prime of my life, and the sword of Damocles aka student debt hanging over my head made me really question my career choice. I still liked the field of medicine but I didnt know if giving up my 20s, amassing six figure debts, etc was worth it. My diet went to crap, my sleep cycle went to crap, I wasnt able to exercise everyday like I used to, and I was barely in contact with my good friends, who seemed to be having the time of their lives.
I started looking for potential "back up" plans for after I graduated. Based on my research, a DO degree is pretty useless without a license let alone board certification. It seemed likely that if I did not want to complete the physician path, I would be doomed to working hard at a job that would make it very difficult to pay my six figure med school debt.
That is, until I learned about markets. Not to sound arrogant, but I thought to myself that there has to be a way for someone like me, someone of above average intelligence who has dominated academics up until medical school and then passed medical board exams, to escape indentured servitude. The answer that came to me was markets. Markets are the vehicle by which the smart people become rich and then stay rich. And traders use the vast field of technical analysis to try and trade profitably.
In my fourth year of med school I started studying technical analysis and started trading cryptocurrencies since my bankroll was small and there really isnt much fundamental analysis involved in those. I had a pretty rough time at first but I kept studying and improving my trading. Bear market really kicks into high gear in feb 2018 and I'm actually making money in a bear market. By June I could multiply an account margin trading bitcoin in my sleep.
Now I have paid off all my debt and am looking forward to slowly expanding into forex and stocks.
The main thing I want to get across here is that there is hope for those that feel lost or are struggling in the medical field. I have to point out that it is NOT easy money unless there is a raging bull market. Markets are brutal and it took me 100s of hours of studying various methods of technical analysis and live trading to become consistently profitable. You will blow your account out if you are underprepared and/or have mediocre risk management. Risk management is VITAL.
Feel free to ask my any questions here or via PM
I did not enjoy clinical rotations, to put it mildly. Working ungodly hours, high stress, toxic hospital environments, losing the prime of my life, and the sword of Damocles aka student debt hanging over my head made me really question my career choice. I still liked the field of medicine but I didnt know if giving up my 20s, amassing six figure debts, etc was worth it. My diet went to crap, my sleep cycle went to crap, I wasnt able to exercise everyday like I used to, and I was barely in contact with my good friends, who seemed to be having the time of their lives.
I started looking for potential "back up" plans for after I graduated. Based on my research, a DO degree is pretty useless without a license let alone board certification. It seemed likely that if I did not want to complete the physician path, I would be doomed to working hard at a job that would make it very difficult to pay my six figure med school debt.
That is, until I learned about markets. Not to sound arrogant, but I thought to myself that there has to be a way for someone like me, someone of above average intelligence who has dominated academics up until medical school and then passed medical board exams, to escape indentured servitude. The answer that came to me was markets. Markets are the vehicle by which the smart people become rich and then stay rich. And traders use the vast field of technical analysis to try and trade profitably.
In my fourth year of med school I started studying technical analysis and started trading cryptocurrencies since my bankroll was small and there really isnt much fundamental analysis involved in those. I had a pretty rough time at first but I kept studying and improving my trading. Bear market really kicks into high gear in feb 2018 and I'm actually making money in a bear market. By June I could multiply an account margin trading bitcoin in my sleep.
Now I have paid off all my debt and am looking forward to slowly expanding into forex and stocks.
The main thing I want to get across here is that there is hope for those that feel lost or are struggling in the medical field. I have to point out that it is NOT easy money unless there is a raging bull market. Markets are brutal and it took me 100s of hours of studying various methods of technical analysis and live trading to become consistently profitable. You will blow your account out if you are underprepared and/or have mediocre risk management. Risk management is VITAL.
Feel free to ask my any questions here or via PM