Hi all! 😃 In short, I've landed my dream career that isn't in the medical field at all. The pay, flexibility, benefits, etc... are all there. However, the job itself is incredibly toxic. Anything from lack of teamwork when it's a team oriented job, not being trained on basic tasks and getting expected to know how to do things, etc. My goal here today isn't to discuss my job, I think I'm coming to a point in my mid-life where a job should be tolerable, but how tolerable it is depends on how you deal with it. Fulfillment and happiness should come from your life outside of work, the only thing any job can reliably provide is money and benefits, great managers and teams come and go, etc. My question is, primarily for Dosimetry but Medical Physics (Alternate Dream Jobs) too, what are the realities of the job when it's bad? I know PA friends that have no work life balance, nurses bullying each other and hospital environments being awful are easy to find. I'd imagine a cancer center would still operate similar to a hospital environment? Nurses seem to have all the 🍵 ☕, it's hard to get specific answers in other threads. With Dosimetry and Medical Physics, all I've been able to find scarcely is sometimes you'll have teams between Oncologists and Physicists that don't get along, don't communicate, and will have unrealistic demands for the dosimetrist. Dosimetrists will be working or getting called after hours for plans that they had all day to do, due to lack of communication from the MD's, etc. I read Oncologists can wreck entire Dosimetry teams due to simply ego, plans get denied because of ego... 🙃 Many hospitals are profit motivated, I imagine a cancer center is subject to this? Chronic understaffing is common in so many positions in the medical field, I'm sure it's common to be overworked in Dosimetry even if it's advertised as strictly 9-5? Patient wellbeing could be put on the back burner due to having to rush treatment plans because of understaffing? Any job I've had in my life when ideal has been great, I'd really just like honest realities of when the job is bad what it looks like, and if it's prevalent just like many problems the medical field faces. I don't want to chase the wind with jobs anymore, I've had plenty of them. I'm not saying the work y'all do isn't incredible, it truly is, I just know there's no perfect job; I'd like to know what these jobs are actually like when they're bad behind closed doors. Obviously, problems in nursing aren't talked about in nursing school, I'm sure it's the same for these careers like any other career/job I've had. Some careers are definitely worse than others, but largely it's up to the individual to decide what they want to tolerate. I'm not looking for perfection, just reality. 😃   submitted by   /u/Throwaway_2124044 [link]   [comments]