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I suggest that you bail now. While job security is a baseline reason for wanting to be a doctor, your rationales alone are terrible reasons to be a doctor.I know I sound very naive. But my reasons for becoming a doctor were for job security and job satisfaction.
I can help people in any career so that is not why I wanted to be a doctor.
I can achieve the same goals with less stress by becoming a nurse. I can work 4 days a week 40 hours and make 37k before taxes.
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I suggest that you bail now. While job security is a baseline reason for wanting to be a doctor, your rationales alone are terrible reasons to be a doctor.
Have you had to help someone switch to a nursing program at your school?
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I just don't want the working hours that a physician has. I know nursing provides more job flexibility. Is that true, can you work 3-4 days a week and 12 hours those days?
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One of my classmates came up to me this week and told me that medicine was always his back up plan and that he truly wants to be a musician (LOL). I told him to stick it out. He's come so far.
I just don't want the working hours that a physician has. I know nursing provides more job flexibility. Is that true, can you work 3-4 days a week and 12 hours those days?
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Just want to point out that it's at least 1 order of magnitude easier to get into medical school than it is to succeed in any real capacity as a musician.
I understand that, but it has to be less pressure and stress than being a doctor right? You are not the one calling all the shots or continuously learning.
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Please don't be a quitter!
Please!
You'll regret it every time a doctor treat you bad or like a stupid person in the future!
You'll regret it every time you work very hard and nobody even acknowledge you!
You'll regret it every time you work harder than others but paid less!
Stick to what you worked so hard to get!
Do doctors get acknowledged when they work hard? They get paid more but have ages so much due to stress and residency. They get reprimanded and sued for every mistake.
Money honestly does not mean much as long as I can afford a room, food, clothes, and a video game every 3-4 months.
Time is much more valuable to me. I would happily trade salary for time as long as I have enough to live and stash some away to retire in 40 years.
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I know I sound very naive. But my reasons for becoming a doctor were for job security and job satisfaction.
I can help people in any career so that is not why I wanted to be a doctor.
I can achieve the same goals with less stress by becoming a nurse. I can work 4 days a week 40 hours and make 37k before taxes.
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go into em and work like 6 shifts per month.Do doctors get acknowledged when they work hard? They get paid more but have ages so much due to stress and residency. They get reprimanded and sued for every mistake.
Money honestly does not mean much as long as I can afford a room, food, clothes, and a video game every 3-4 months.
Time is much more valuable to me. I would happily trade salary for time as long as I have enough to live and stash some away to retire in 40 years.
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I know I sound very naive. But my reasons for becoming a doctor were for job security and job satisfaction.
I can help people in any career so that is not why I wanted to be a doctor.
I can achieve the same goals with less stress by becoming a nurse. I can work 4 days a week 40 hours and make 37k before taxes.
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But that "cushy" family medicine job is 7 grueling years away. The salary would be 110k after taxes and drop down to 60k with aggressive loan repayments. Start salary is 150k not 200k.
But that "cushy" family medicine job is 7 grueling years away. The salary would be 110k after taxes and drop down to 60k with aggressive loan repayments. Start salary is 150k not 200k.
Sure after 10 years I would be making that full 110k but have sacrificed a decade of my life. A physician's job is obviously more demanding than a nurse's job and there is mid level encroachment to worry about as well.
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I can achieve the same goals with less stress by becoming a nurse. I can work 4 days a week 40 hours and make 37k before taxes.
I understand that waiting would be ideal, but I know it is just going to get harder. We have anatomy coming up...if I quit now, I might be able to get my tuition back and pay off my apartment and food by working in retail while trying to get into a nursing school
I already have a BS so I could become a nurse in 1-2 years
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But you have to be working 60-80 hours a week to bill enough patients to get paid that much...
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Dude, don't forget you will get paid $50K as a resident too. Being in the middle of your class grades-wise is nothing to be ashamed of.That is what I initially though a few days ago but then I realized that is 7 years away and part time fm jobs are not that easy to come by because of overhead. I would have to work full time for a few years to pay down those loans and then start saving 50 percent of my salary for retirement.
I guess one advantage is that I can retire in my 50s.
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I was working 60-80 hours a week as a nurse. At my first nursing job, about 12-20 hours a week of unpaid extra time was expected. It wasn't legal for them to demand that of us, but that doesn't mean that we didn't all have to do it if we wanted to keep our jobs. At my most recent nursing job, there were at least 8 hours per week of unpaid labor built into the job, or considerably more if you count administrative nonsense that you were expected to do on your own time.
You are working with bad information and making an emotional decision based upon actually coming up against adversity for maybe the first time. Don't do that.
Where are you in the world? Like, are you anywhere near the midwest? There is a conference happening in November that you should make an effort to come to, if you really want to know about the beauty and potential of a career in FM. I know a way that you could go for free... they'd even put you up in a hotel room.
I was working 60-80 hours a week as a nurse. At my first nursing job, about 12-20 hours a week of unpaid extra time was expected. It wasn't legal for them to demand that of us, but that doesn't mean that we didn't all have to do it if we wanted to keep our jobs. At my most recent nursing job, there were at least 8 hours per week of unpaid labor built into the job, or considerably more if you count administrative nonsense that you were expected to do on your own time.
You are working with bad information and making an emotional decision based upon actually coming up against adversity for maybe the first time. Don't do that.
Where are you in the world? Like, are you anywhere near the midwest? There is a conference happening in November that you should make an effort to come to, if you really want to know about the beauty and potential of a career in FM. I know a way that you could go for free... they'd even put you up in a hotel room.