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Unpaid internships/clinicals are insane

You know, for a brief moment, I was doing some research on things I could go to school for that I was actually interested in ie. in healthcare. But as I’m reading people go through med school and all that I forgot that unpaid internships or clinicals are definitely important if I wanted to pursue anything like radiology or something. I already work in healthcare as a sterile processing tech but I’m definitely ready for something new and that pays better and going more deeper into healthcare was on my list. But honestly. I genuinely cannot afford to work unpaid. Like I actually can’t I would literally be homeless and it’s making me viscerally angry that this is what med students here in the US deal with. Anyways I just had to rant. I guess this is goodbye to my interest in healthcare because I honestly cannot afford to just…


You know, for a brief moment, I was doing some research on things I could go to school for that I was actually interested in ie. in healthcare. But as I’m reading people go through med school and all that I forgot that unpaid internships or clinicals are definitely important if I wanted to pursue anything like radiology or something. I already work in healthcare as a sterile processing tech but I’m definitely ready for something new and that pays better and going more deeper into healthcare was on my list. But honestly. I genuinely cannot afford to work unpaid. Like I actually can’t I would literally be homeless and it’s making me viscerally angry that this is what med students here in the US deal with. Anyways I just had to rant. I guess this is goodbye to my interest in healthcare because I honestly cannot afford to just do that. Plus I avoided school for so long because of the potential of just going into crippling debt just to get through it. So I don’t know, just weighing my options here haha. It’s just very depressing to think about. What a wonderful soul-sucking country the US is :/

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