Working a full-time job unrelated to medicine?

[TheMCATWorther112]

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[Deltasidearm]

Don't forget that the people reviewing your applications are not robots. They are humans, too, and completely understand and empathize with the need to get a job and provide for yourself/family.

Not everything needs to be related to healthcare and everything serves to round you out. Go make your money and get some job experience and don't think twice about it.

 

[deleted1040417]

Definitely try to take things out of your work. These jobs listed above require a lot of professionalism, confidentiality, and communication skills you can elaborate on developing throughout the course of your employment. Besides that, I'd guess you'd still need to get those cookie cutter EC's like clinical and community service. Not an adcom, just guessing here.

Adcoms ought to understand people have to make ends meet, but I'm not an adcom so no idea here.

@Goro @gonnif

 

[TheMCATWorther112]

Thank you for your responses. Just for more information, I plan on continuing clinical volunteering/nonclinical (blood drive work) on the side, albeit not as many hours as without a job.
@LizzyM Would you also mind chiming in on this?

 

[Goro]

Let's say I get a full-time job at the bank or the real estate agency or government agency, etc instead of at the health sciences company during my gap year.

Will medical schools look down upon working a full-time job unrelated to medicine? I need some money right now. I figured it's better than no job?

Not everything you do has to be related to Medicine.

Employment experience in anything is always good!