Congratulations! It’s understandable that you don’t want to open your office right away. After 10+ years of schooling, you just want to work, earn good income, pay down the debts, and start enjoying life. Only one person in my class (of 6 residents) took out $600k business loan to open his own office from scratch. I thought that was very brave of him to take such huge financial risk. I was the only one in my class who had F/T job offers (3 jobs….at 2 different corps and 1 private office) a couple of weeks before graduation. One was in the Army and had to serve 3 years. One bought an existing practice in a rural town (it’s his home town). One got a teaching job at our program and later became the program director. One was indecisive about where he would want to practice.
Indeed.com is a good place to look for jobs. That’s where my wife found her associate jobs. I found my jobs from a local newspaper’s job ad (the LA Times) because back then internet wasn’t as readily available as it is today. I haven’t had to use this Indeed.com website because I’ve stayed at this same corp for 20 years.
The only way to get a busy F/T work schedule is to get multiple jobs at multiple offices. Don’t be surprised when certain offices say that they only need you a couple of days a month. If you want to have a fixed stable income, get jobs at dental corps because they are large companies with a lot of money….they can guarantee you a fixed daily base salary ($1300-1800/day) + bonus. Since dental corps have a lot of offices throughout the state, they can offer you more days to keep you busy. Unfortunately, NY doesn’t have any corp office (according to Gryffindor, a frequent poster who has practiced in NY/NJ areas). If you want to stay in NY, I guess you have to find jobs at GP, pedo, and other private ortho offices. To get corp jobs, you have to move to states like CA, AZ, TX, FL etc.
