Career Changers: What did you do before this?

[flyhi]

Corporate pilot

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[ScutWork]

Helicopter mechanic and U.S. Marine

 

[Coastie2Doc]

Coast Guard Officer: Mechanical Engineer by degree but worked in Naval and Civil Engineering fields.

 

[futureboy]

Lawyer
Extern to a federal judge
Professional musician
Pizza delivery driver
Burger flipper
Physics paper-grader

 

[futureboy]

Certified Public Accountant - with 20 years in hospitals and clincs as well as health insurers. And I still am a CPA - my state still continues to extract a license renewal fee from me every two years, even though I am officially inactive and have pleaded poverty as a medical student. I'm sure I'll keep paying it - I worked too bloody hard for that certificate to just mail it back. Although I'll never use the title professionally again, of course - "Non-TradTulsa, MS, MD, CPA" is a little scary even to me. The "MS" I will keep, though - just to honor the fact that I had a previous life.

You never know -- your accounting and business skills may come in handy in your medical practice group.

 

[VCU07]

I'm a software developer

Pharmacist

 

[bipolardoc]

Lawyer
Extern to a federal judge
Professional musician
Pizza delivery driver
Burger flipper
Physics paper-grader

Interesting resume. Curious what order did this go in. You graduated undergrad, flipped burgers than became a lawyer?

 

[futureboy]

Interesting resume. Curious what order did this go in. You graduated undergrad, flipped burgers than became a lawyer?

Chronological order:

-Physics paper-grader
-Pizza delivery driver
-bachelors degree
-Burger flipper (kinda gave me an idea where I might end up if I didn't finish law shool)
-Extern to a federal judge
-law degree
-Lawyer

Professional musician at various points during all of the above, including currently (part time obviously)

 

[bipolardoc]

Chronological order:

-Physics paper-grader
-Pizza delivery driver
-bachelors degree
-Burger flipper (kinda gave me an idea where I might end up if I didn't finish law shool)
-Extern to a federal judge
-law degree
-Lawyer

Professional musician at various points during all of the above, including currently (part time obviously)

Awesome, lol, I love the background. Did you notice the colorful backgrounds of those interested in med school. There was a poster who was a bricklayer for 12 years.

How long did you do law and notice it wasnt for you. Which was better, flipping burgers or law, lol...

 

[futureboy]

Awesome, lol, I love the background. Did you notice the colorful backgrounds of those interested in med school. There was a poster who was a bricklayer for 12 years.

How long did you do law and notice it wasnt for you. Which was better, flipping burgers or law, lol...

Law is a good field, and I don't really dislike it. That's what's making it so difficult to decide whether to pursue medicine. If I hated law, it would be a much easier decision. I just think I am better suited philosophically and personality-wise to medicine.

I actually took premed classes a couple of years out of law school. However, while taking an MCAT review class, I got a law job I had been trying to get for more than a year. I stopped taking the classes, and never went back. Now I'm thinking about taking it up again.

Flipping burgers really, really sucks. There's nothing like being b****ed at for leaning while cleaning my work area by someone who can barely spell "cat."

Delivering pizza was pretty cool, though.

 

[Jubal Early]

Renaissance festival ride operator
Movie theater manager
Network Engineer
Pharmacy technician
Pharmacist


This will be the last career change ... swear..

 

[Dishndirt]

I'm a Nurse and entrepreneur. Nursing is a back breaking, unappreciated profession. That's a shame, cause we all need a good nurse at our bedside one day.

 

[paramedtech]

I am a paramedic looking to get into rehab sciences now

 

[nsx]

nvm

 

[sphelps]

i majored in computer science and work in phlebotomy

 

[Twitch]

<- underwater basket weaving

 

[futureboy]

<- underwater basket weaving

I would think it would be difficult to actually weave a basket underwater...

 

[NebPharmer]

Newspaper editor
Medical transcriptionist

 

[versalog]

Certified Master Farrier and general blacksmith.

 

[wumpus]

Cryptanalyst.
gunning for a MD-PhD epidemiology.

 

[RevGood]

Pastor (I hate it)
Substitute teacher (not too bad)


I have always wanted to be a doctor.

 

[Alphadorian]

EDI Account Manager.

I work with doctors and their office staff as well as hospitals to make it possible for them to send electronic claims to their clearinghouse or directly to us (I work for a health-care insurance company). I get to help them with rejected claims, checking eligibility, the HIPAA formats, comm protocols.. a little bit of everything related to that.

 

[Doc WV]

Hello everyone!

Found this place a week or so ago and joined recently.

Currently a Chemist/Process support tech- been in different lab positions for the past 5 years or so.

 

[Thales]

Worked as computer programmer/network technician, did counter-intel for the Army, sales manager for Dell Computers and now I'm regional manager for a cellular phone company. None of these jobs have been mentally challenging. I've always been interested in epidemiology and the human body, the spark was ignited when my then fiance (now wife) was hospitalized for an ovarian cyst. I was very interested in what they were doing, how they came about their diagnosis, etc. I talked with her doctor some and came to the realization that medicine was everything I had sought at my other jobs. A mental challenge, a break in repetition, exposure to unique experiences and the ability to help people. Since then becoming a doctor has been my goal every day I wake up.

I'm starting my pre-medical courses next semester (January). AA in Social Sciences to Bachelors in Psychology (With pre-reqs.) then onward to MD (Hopefully!).

-fin
Thales

 

[Rooni]

Actress and classically trained soprano.

 

[laryngo]

Opera singer and voice teacher.

 

[Nuke1601]

Nuclear Weapons Specialist (USAF)

 

[Eli Wiggles]

Advertising and Operations Coordinator for a Business and Legal Newspaper

 

[murfettie]

- Medical biller, clinical interpreter,
Bachelor degree
- Aerobic pole dance instructor
- Teach english abroad
- NGO grant writer/ public health educator
- health educator, clinical interpreter

--- sometimes i wonder if i should put this aerobic pole dance stuff on my postbac apps.....
HEY! I can hang upside down on a pole with just my legs wrapped around it and do sit ups! (not anymore, i'm all flabby now). wonder how people think about that.

 

[iwork4911]

Supervise a 911 dispatch center.

 

[kiyomander]

Kids' TV show writer
TV development
Documentary TV Associate Producer

 

[Sandey]

Restaruant General Manager
Casino Food and Beverage Director
401k Administrator
C.N.A.

 

[racerx]

Grocery bagger

Produce clerk

College flunkout

US Army NCO

Mechanical Engineer working on main feed boosters for aircraft carrier propulsion systems. Then, designing diaphragm pumps. . .then, designing labware. (Have 2 patents I don't see one red cent from )

Internet programmer

Phlebotomist

Concurrent with all except Army, raced professionally in various formula cars. Hence, the handle.

 

[3dtp]

Nuclear power is way too much of a George Jetson job. It requires long hours, and I never really found any reward in it. I'm hoping with medicine, it'll be different.

Although... I just got a job offer for 95k doing nuclear power and someone brought up that doctors have to pay ridiculous insurance coverages now. Is being a normal GP still worth doing these days?

(Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this)

Nuclear physicist. You just picked the wrong side. Who want's a controlled steady state reaction when you could have gone to Nevada and made noise!

And I did a stint in the airlines...flying freighters during grad school.

 

[ntb963]

I have been a chemist for 8+ yrs

 

[ILikeFood]

Web Applications Programmer