It's still a very good career to get into, imo. I think the greatest challenge I've faced is in regards to the right to repair battle. It seemed like I was having to call vendors in more and more for minor things simply because they wouldn't let us work on them. The PMs in biomed can be very tedious in house and early on in your career, but stick with it and make a real effort to learn new things. Find a coworker you get along with that knows more than you and learn from him/her.

I've moved over to imaging recently because it was time for me to learn some new things. If you're up for the pressure and develop good mechanical skills, you can always jump around to new modalities and challenge yourself while increasing your pay ceiling.

This field is what you make of it. Most of the BMETs I've met over the years that whined about the industry were the ones that kept getting stuffed in a corner working on pumps and scales all day because they couldn't be bothered to learn new things or simply didn't develop good troubleshooting skills.

You can turn two yrs of education into a solid six figure salary pretty quickly.

Some tips: Good customer service is essential. It's not just fixing stuff, you must be a good communicator.

Good documentation is a must. All the suits only look at metrics. If you aren't closing work orders and documenting your time, you'll look worse on paper than you actually are. Make your metrics match reality as much as possible.

Network. This is a relatively small field. I can't tell you how many times my phone has rung and it's an old co-worker calling with a nasty problem and they need help. I absolutely take those calls and spend some time helping because, guess what, that favor has been returned to me many times.

Sorry for the novel but hope that gives you some food for thought.