my response was based on how entitled this all sounds to anyone who isn’t a doctor. Just because you knowingly chose to enter medicine you deserve the job of your dreams? To decide against a specialty that you would otherwise really enjoy (rad onc) because you’re averse to what all your non-medical friends have to do (network) is pretty weak.
1) The thesis of many posts is not "we deserve the jobs of our dreams" but "we deserve marginally more options when it comes to getting a job", because right now it's "if we want a job we have limited options"
2) Sort of a central transaction in modern society is the understanding that:
a) the bar is really high to become a physician in America
b) to work as a physician in America requires over a decade of training and sacrifice
c) the upside being that, at the end, you have economic security
3) The mere fact that you:
a) got into medical school
b) graduated medical school
c) matched into residency
d) graduated residency
...does buy you some leeway into being averse to what non-medical folks have to do. It's not "weak" at all. That's the trade-off.
My non-medical friends hustling and grinding for a job have to do that because the bar to entry for their job is lower. There's more people vying for the same job, because the base requirement for entry is a 4-year degree or less, something the majority of Americans have these days. The "societal contract" for most physicians is the sacrifice comes up front to narrow the pool at the end.
RadOnc has created an environment where both facets exist - simultaneously, the barrier to entry is high while the pool of people vying for the same job is also high.
If you don't have a problem with it, then nothing we can say will convince you otherwise.
But comparing getting a job to RadOnc to getting a job in a "non-medical" field is not arguing in good faith. Do you also accept when your surgeon friends compare outcomes between surgical and non-surgical candidates in their database studies? I don't think you do.