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I'm 31. Working as a MRI supervisor in a large hospital. I've been in the medical field for 7 years, the longer I'm in it, the more I can't stand it. I have 54 people who I supervise. Most of them are self righteous, "powerful", independent women. I will spare you the details..

I'm really looking to get out and start new. I also have a family so I have to consider that. I've thought of learning a trade. Working for myself.. sure just doing what? What do the good citizens of poal do for a living? What do you recommend?

I'm 31. Working as a MRI supervisor in a large hospital. I've been in the medical field for 7 years, the longer I'm in it, the more I can't stand it. I have 54 people who I supervise. Most of them are self righteous, "powerful", independent women. I will spare you the details.. I'm really looking to get out and start new. I also have a family so I have to consider that. I've thought of learning a trade. Working for myself.. sure just doing what? What do the good citizens of poal do for a living? What do you recommend?

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Work in health tech. I transferred from medical to health tech a few years ago, it's 100x better. Wages are actually fucking amazing (6 figures), people are actually not wastes of space, and if you actually have medical professionals on your team, you avoid a ton of that bullshit.

I went from working from a federal medical organization (with employees petty enough to flip off pictures of Trump when he was president in the lobby) to health tech and all they care about is if you can do the work. If you can, then you get so many fucking benefits.

Yeah, I suspect that there's some libtards in the ranks, but most companies are get shit done and we don't give a fuck.

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That's awesome. What do you do for the company you work for?

[–] • 1 pt

Mainly do user research and testing with some design stuff. I tackle the nightmare that is ehr/emr integration and preventing clinician burnout. Health tech is great but has two caveats:

  1. Most health tech companies are usually startups of some sort. This means you might not have all the resources you expect or have to work quicker than you're used to.

  2. If you don't have an MD, make sure someone in the company does. Small health tech companies run on reputation, and there are a lot of tech bros (I. E. Ex-google) that think they can solve medicine with an outside perspective.

Ex - Google means shit compared to an MD (or at least MPH). Hospitals want to know you speak their language and can trust you with data.

If you're still interested, I know there was a push a while back for data science startups to work with medical imaging to do automatic tumor recognition in them. Search for vedadata (i think) for more info.