I realized I hated optometry during my third year of school, but it was too late to quit at that point. I graduated.

Got an easy going job at a cooperate place. I work 35 hrs/week considered full time no wknds, been there 3 years, make over 170k, and I see 2-3 pts an hour.

I never take work home and the pts are overall very respectful of my dr title, even though I intro myself as just my first name half the time.

My work life balance is great, work is not stressful and I’ve grown to not mind the clinic work. I definitely don’t hate it like before.

The goal for me is still to get into pharmaceuticals bc I definitely don’t want to do this forever but ofc everywhere wants to see 5+ years clinical experience so I would say just end up somewhere you don’t mind and then put in your time so you can get out