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How messed up does your circadian rhythm get doing around 72 hours in a row with patchwork sleep? I could see this working out really nice with cush calls, anything busier than that and I'd be burned crispy.I’m gonna to hit at least 75k just doing 2.5 days of beeper call x 3 weekends.
Just image me doing full time locums. They are not fantasy numbers.
I just negotiated $800/hr all guaranteed even on beeper Xmas day. That’s almost 20k for full 24 hours. Now I’m gonna to split it with another doc. He’s gonna to do 7am-7p. I will take over and do 7p-7am beeper. All guarantee. So I get the best of both worlds. Spent Xmas morning opening up gifts with the family. Other guy is Jewish. So doesn’t care. About Xmas morning.
The money is in the calls. Not the daytime hours.
That’s why I tell the young folks to get stable w2 job. My job has all my weekends free. I’m basically free after 1-3pm almost every day. To do damage on weekends.
Better yet. Try to find a job 6-7 calls a month (24 hrs) full time for 500k do more damage on free time off.
Or negotiate job with 20 weeks off and 500k. So many variations how to make extra money. Plus have stable w2 income.
But the days of working q4 calls. Mix in with lates are over.
People want day time work 40 hours and no calls. Or lots of calls and lots of time off.
The in between is where u get unhappy people.
I worked a locums job where I would get the postcall day off most of the time after a call shift and still get paid for the postcall day. That was nice.