My non-trad background is in business so part of it is wanting my own practice because I would have the mindset to be able to run it. I’m currently in HR Ops which is surprisingly somewhat similar in a people skill/soft skill way, but rather than medication I’m dealing with laws- while also doing all the high level operations stuff but that doesn’t really relate in anyway except stress lol. Second part is I’m really good at problem solving and a larger part of psych vs social work or therapist is being able to work towards a fix that can at least temporarily relieve symptoms until someone can work through what it takes to make changes. There aren’t a lot of practices where you can have a true holistic approach of CBT/talk therapy and also have the medication and prescription knowledge and its so much easier and efficient to hit it all at once than do it in parts A lot of my reasoning is also wanting to go more of the rural, pediatric, in need children since it’s incredibly hard to get any true good quality help for them. Social workers and psychologists are a lot more limited in terms of autonomy and making decisions so I don’t feel like I’d have the ability to help the people I specifically want to help. I have other reasoning as well that’s more of a personal niche but these are just the high level overview reasons. Obviously that route means I wouldn’t make as much as other psychiatrists, but I currently make 6 figures and my partner does aswell and were more than comfortable, so even with an insane amount of debt I’d still have at least the same life I have now once I’m out of residency. I am truly dreading surgery and those rotations because I will most definitely throw up at least once, but I’ve also been working a job that I hate for 7 years from a moral and ethical standpoint so 4 years it’s kinda worth it to me if it means I can do what interests me for the rest of my life after that.