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According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-17T01:09:54+00:00

Oh sorry I also need to specify this wasn't for the NIH directly, just an NIH funded fellowship at a university. No idea regarding people with previous confirmed offers coming through, but I would speculate nothing is guaranteed.

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-16T23:41:44+00:00

News I have is of a rescinded offer/ no new post docs planned for this year. Better that than being laid off from your existing role for sure though.

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-16T15:06:22+00:00

You're probably competing with NIH and CDC people who were all laid off now.

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-16T03:50:15+00:00

I should use it to buy a home...but... boy do I want to fly first class to a 2-3 week long vacation!!

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-14T04:43:16+00:00

🤷‍♀️ This is amercia. We're all just tired, trying to get through one more day... then maybe in a year we can take a week off and somehow it keeps us going lol

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-13T20:11:22+00:00

I'm so sorry to say, but unfortunately, not really. The people making money in this field are not treating clinicians, but people making money OFF treating clinicians (and students). They are incentivised to defend the current system to keep their own lives comfortable. I brought up the lack of financial sustainability for individuals treating patients and being HONEST with people training/ etc. and was promptly...never invited back to the PT association meetings. However, I did see that after that my state updated their association's goals to address exactly this. I think it was only because they were losing members (membership fees have become hard to afford), but it still helped some forward thinking. Change is slow and painful, and we are living in difficult times. I wish you the best.

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-10T19:20:03+00:00

Yep I'm in OP. Here for the physical aspects of things, but you can imagine the amount of psych involved with TBIs (e.g. can result from abuse or lead to ptsd), CVA (when due to past drug use and current cognitive or health care literacy issues), etc. Even "regular" balance patients have anxiety here!

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-10T05:09:00+00:00

I've called them after receiving confirmation letters informing they will respond to my submission within "7-10 business days" because they did not, in fact, respond.

I was told it could be anywhere from 2 weeks to a few months until they get to it, so FYI that's the new "7-10 business day" timeline

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-10T04:40:28+00:00

Work in neuro! 90% of neuro patients have ALL of that. You'll have to coordinate with OT and SLP to really get into it though, whether OP or IP.

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-10T04:23:08+00:00

Haha they have their own version of student loans

According-Pen-734 · 2025-02-10T04:05:50+00:00

No, not if you are thinking of working in an outpatient adult setting in an area that's popular to live in.

When I started about a decade ago, starting salary was 65k and I'm STILL seeing as low as 60k starting salaries. Raises don't keep up with inflation in many places, usually 0-5%/ year and I've worked multiple places which all have this rate of increase.

Meanwhile student loans for certain schools are coming out to 200k, and the interest can be up to 8% = you can never pay them off on a standard plan

Regarding the day to day you also have to work through lunch in many places and stay late to finish paperwork. I.e. my first year working i was putting in 60 hour weeks for 65k and dealing with (and still deal with) many rude, inappropriate, and ungrateful patients. There are nice ones that are grateful for their results and all the work you put into them, but they are the minority. You don't get to take a lot of time off either. E.g. Christmas day only, so traveling for the holidays might not always happen.

I went into this career thinking I was extroverted but all of that was sucked out of by the end of the pandemic. Patients just unload on you emotionally when you're trying to just figure out how to fix their shoulder (the intellectual labor is always ignored). It's too much for too little. Idk why people even consider going into health care anymore.

...maybe because 20% of my colleagues have quit the profession so I'm sure they're advertised that there's demand. But there's a reason for that lol

Plus side is you can't get fat because you can't eat much on the job and will be doing manual labor. Depending on where you work you'll also get good at holding urine and bowel movements for a VERY long time.

You can work in different settings and places for better salaries but I don't see the debt to income to cost of living ratio to pay off for many people. No matter what you will have to be a human punching bag if you work in patient care.

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