Rant
This might piss some people off and I get it that a lot of subreddits are negative but the constant complaints about how fucked the profession are pathetic. I am writing this for all of the students in PT school and undergrad who stumble upon these. I remember reading all of these posts about how horrible documentation is, how underpaid we all are, how you will never be able to recover from the debt, unrealistic productivity standards, etc. All of these “I wish I could go back and tell myself to just do something else” is pathetic. Every single thing that is mentioned has answers. If you are overburdened by productivity and underpaid, leave. If you have issues with loans, get with a repayment plan, join a PSLF eligible place or apply to the VA. If you hate talking to people, do home health, you barely have to talk. Its like half of you expect some sort of fucking euphoria coming from doing your job everyday. Some people here actually wake up excited to go to work, and that's the minority just like almost every job. Everyone frothing over tech likely don't the volatility of it. It is already oversaturated. Unless you know people or get lucky it is so unpredictable trying to maintain a stable job. As a PT you can travel, you can get a job in any city you want in any setting as long as you are patient and work hard and also there are plenty of avenues to leave the profession and make money. You can find easy gigs or extremely demanding gigs. AI pretty much writes your notes for you and it will only get better. There is a part of me that is burnt out and that shit is real, but I think that burnout that a lot of people in here talk about is not so specific to this profession. A lot of it is just being in your 20s and early 30s and everyone's jobs are getting a little shittier it sounds like, but the point is if you don’t like where you are then leave to another clinic, another hospital, another area you can afford, start your own thing. I know most people in here would be just as miserable behind a desk doing bullshit that isn’t actually helping people. You aren’t a victim and I say that with love.
-3 year PT thats been through a Ortho residency that took advantage of me and then underpaid at private OP and a place i am bored so I am considering doing in-patient