Hi everyone,
I just recently defended my PhD thesis and started working in the biotech industry, but still plan to apply to medical schools in a year and pursue the life long dream of becoming a physician.
I read many thread on whether it makes financial sense to become a physician at an older age (I'm 30) etc, and a lot of these thread make a pretty huge assumption that's never mentioned - job security. My PhD is in life sciences, I also have experience in biomedical engineering and generally very strong credentials, but it still took me a few months to find my current job even though I'm in the tri-state area (lots of biotech/pharma companies here). My current boss spent almost three decades at one of the largest pharma companies just to be laid off (they just moved her entire department to the West coast) and struggle to find a job in today's economy even though she has incredibly strong and impressive credentials.
My question then, what's the job security in medicine? Assuming it's pretty comfortable, I'd argue it makes financial sense given how unstable and unpredictable biotech industry is.
Thoughts?
I just recently defended my PhD thesis and started working in the biotech industry, but still plan to apply to medical schools in a year and pursue the life long dream of becoming a physician.
I read many thread on whether it makes financial sense to become a physician at an older age (I'm 30) etc, and a lot of these thread make a pretty huge assumption that's never mentioned - job security. My PhD is in life sciences, I also have experience in biomedical engineering and generally very strong credentials, but it still took me a few months to find my current job even though I'm in the tri-state area (lots of biotech/pharma companies here). My current boss spent almost three decades at one of the largest pharma companies just to be laid off (they just moved her entire department to the West coast) and struggle to find a job in today's economy even though she has incredibly strong and impressive credentials.
My question then, what's the job security in medicine? Assuming it's pretty comfortable, I'd argue it makes financial sense given how unstable and unpredictable biotech industry is.
Thoughts?