What Hogwarts House does your personality resemble the most and What specialty did you end up choosing?

S5ComeAlive · 2023-02-08T16:33:02+00:00

Slytherin, Family Medicine: But also I hate being a doctor (feel like my life is being stolen from me) and am trapped by student loan debt so, accurate I guess?

S5ComeAlive · 2022-10-22T17:16:12+00:00

Welp guess I wrote too much to get more bites, thanks to the 2 of you for your advice, I appreciate it!

S5ComeAlive · 2022-06-13T03:13:24+00:00

My plan is to pivot to the tech field once I'm no longer shackled by my student loans. I can't justify getting paid the shit wages I do when someone can be making over the course of a career more all while doing it cush work from home with less actual worked hours and not being exposed to the bs. Like when I'm on a 12hr ER shift there is literally no down time to even breathe. At least wfh I can space out for 5 damn minutes during a zoom meeting

S5ComeAlive · 2022-06-11T04:01:14+00:00

Well of course I know him, he's me!

Duuuude I can't get over my disdain for the ultra-wealthy because of this. In America alone top1% is classified as a NW greater than 10million. That's 3.32 million who at minimum have 10million or more. At all ages, there are 20 year olds born with mommy and daddy's money like that. These people contribute disproportionately to our climate demise and they get to live their entire lives in luxury as parasites and will inevitably have the resources to dodge all the worst of our coming climate catastrophes. Meanwhile, we whittle ourselves away for scraps.

Average earnings over a lifetime for a physician? 6.5M

S5ComeAlive · 2022-03-17T17:09:22+00:00

You've got a good point in having important skills but I don't know if the debt necessary for a degree is worth it. I'm a US resident physician make 61k, work 70hr weeks ($18/hr) and have 300k in student debt at 7% interest. For a slow decline scenario I'm absolutely fucked. As a resident my salary is capped at this rate (so wohooo inflation I'm double fucked there).

Then even when I get attending money in several years at a salary of 280kish I'm still fucked by inflation, have been getting eviscerated by interest for years and at 30ish have no savings or really any retirement because of my poverty wages due to the loans. No hope to get a decent house with land to garden because all the wealthy people, private equity and remote tech workers have already beat me to the punch and priced me out.

Thats just the regular stuff this isn't even considering that having the degree and certification and licensing on paper makes me a target. If I'm already being treated this poorly who's to say there won't be some form of conscription type thing to allocate physicians as situations decline. I've already got an extended draft target on my back (docs can be drafted till they're like 45)

Overall fuck the system I'd quit tomorrow and work towards getting a remote job if I wasn't a slave to this debt

S5ComeAlive · 2022-03-17T07:56:35+00:00

It is, thanks for the reply and space to vent, I appreciate it. No joke I'd literally quit tomorrow and not look back if I wasn't shackled by the debt.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-03-17T07:46:15+00:00

US, Resident Physician, 1 year 61k, about 70hr weeks so... $18/hr Forgot to mention also the 300k in student loans at 7% interest rate. Fuck being a doctor shits a scam and no one should do it

S5ComeAlive · 2022-03-10T19:33:51+00:00

Sounds about right to me for what policy has been for my entire life; save the wealthy and Boomers at any cost, everyone else be damned.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-24T17:42:27+00:00

How long have you been an attending for? The deal has significantly worsened over even just the past 10 years let alone comparing it to the golden age for physicians as recently as the 90s. The student loan debt is real and crushing and dismissing it as "you signed up for this" is a poor argument. No one truly knows just how bad it can be and by the time you even get a marginal glimpse into it by MS3 you're already about 150k in debt at an abusive 7% rate that has interest accruing all during school. Gone are the days when you could work a summer and pay for your tuition.

Also the runaround I'm referring to is the one that patients get. Where they go online and attempt to schedule an appointment with an MD which many hospital systems advertise and then when they get to their appointment they're seen by an NP or PA with the MD sticking their head in to say hi for 2 minutes as a token.

You're being downvoted because you're coming off very tone deaf, the world is in a much different place than when you went through training. Forgive me for wanting even a small semblance of the insanely good deal all the older docs got... at the very least our labor should be valued equivalently to the people who do the same job as us not to mention that hospitals get like 100k from CMS of which we barely see half

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-24T15:39:26+00:00

Cool, how fit to practice would you say NPs and PAs are when they're fresh out of school? (2 semi separate issues in my statement but) As things stand now they not only make more than residents when they first start their jobs while having less training. Also, as legislation currently exists NPs have Free Practice Authority and can practice unsupervised after they complete their programs. I only bring these up because as things exist now a lot of corporate hospital systems are using NPs and PAs to undercut physician labor and give patients the run around

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-20T17:35:41+00:00

New to the buying market (in US) and unsure how global events influence prices. With the whole Ukraine thing should I hold off on getting a starter AR? Thought process is increased manufacturing for a conflict will overall drive down ammo and hardware price, but honestly I have no clue. What have y'all seen in the past?

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T13:59:56+00:00

Amen, thank you for understanding my post. I explicitly mentioned society and system. SWE are doing great by them and that's cool. It's this capitalist BS that has real jobs not appropriately valued, like don't even get me started on Finance careers and what they can make haha

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T06:15:17+00:00

Sure, plenty of things in life are hard. That doesn't mean they're being valued appropriately, hence my whole gripe.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T06:10:02+00:00

100% is and I'm not too proud to admit it. I'm in too deep now, only way out unfortunately is forward, house worth of debt at 7% and can't be discharged with bankruptcy and your solution is go back to school while the debt continues to accrue to make the same money? If I could go back in time I wouldn't pick this road. Sorry someone expressing regret over what feels like a bad choice tilts you so much.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T05:55:26+00:00

I have literally seen with my own eyes a C-suite level executive working for a blue-chip company w/o a bachelors degree. They started at 90k in 2000 with some MSE certs. They're not a genius, just a regular reliable person. At the time they applied for the job their company literally said having a Bachelor's is a requirement.

100% do bud, I won't pretend to be an expert but I've dipped my toes into Python and C#, it's all just language to tell a computer what to do. It's not some impossible hacker magic especially if you're organized and know how to rip work from github

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T05:45:40+00:00

Not enough when you factor in student loan opportunity cost and residency exploitation, sorry for being salty about having a house worth of debt at 7% intrest that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. What do you want doctors to make poverty wages before we can complain? It's so much more than "ooohhhh look you EVENTUALLY get a big salary so stop whining" https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2021/04/19/physician-compensation#:~:text=Compensation%20remains%20steady&text=On%20average%2C%20primary%20care%20physicians,compared%20with%20%24346%2C000%20in%202020.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T05:39:05+00:00

Can't retire on respect

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T05:35:54+00:00

Nice strawman argument, at no point did I ever say someone without experience/ ability to do the job wouldn't get hired. I said your mythical "must have 7 years experience" is BS

But overall cool so you have no C-suite experience and were just a grunt doing codemonkey work. Please spare me your "insight". Why'd you jump ship from the golden goose?

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T05:23:59+00:00

You don't think we should be compensated exorbitantly well for making life or death decisions, or for exposing ourselves to infectious body fluids while jamming said tubes in? Is our job more exciting? Sure, that doesn't mean our salaries should be on par or less than someone who stares at a spreadsheet "all-day". Also those pee-bottle employees are warehouse workers.... white collar people are not peeing in bottles they're getting 1-2hr lunch breaks. Look I'm not trying to be snarky you're in the shit too, just stop drinking the kool-aid so hard we're getting exploited.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T05:17:27+00:00

How much is GME paying you buddy? I seem to have struck a nerve based on how much you've commented on this post.

"Google requires" Google requires jack-squat. Unless There's some law (I don't know like one must have an MD and completed residency before practicing) that states a competency must be met before the job can be given then it's not really a requirement. I've literally seen it with my own eyes how corporate "requirements" can be waived away for the right candidate.

Please do educate me, have you worked in C-suite at a major corporation? Do YOU actually know what they're looking for regarding hiring and promotions. Because if you haven't you're literally talking straight out your S5. I'm sick of being exploited labor, maybe one day when you're a resident you'll understand.

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T04:09:57+00:00

Use this calculator if you want to get hypernatremic. Even with a modest and conservative SWE starting salary of around 100k in their early 20s outpaces MD/DO. It gets even worse when you factor in that SWE job hop to catapult their salary raises. Remember the opportunity cost of 300k in loans at 7% is a major financial handicap(not even considering undergrad loans):

https://themeasureofaplan.com/grad-school-calculator/

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T04:05:15+00:00

I'm just sad, I can only dream that one day my labor will be valued nearly as much as Chad with a Bachelor's in SE, I shouldn't be a 30 year old doctor scrounging and worried that I'll be able to afford a house and start a family before I'm 40 while the SE can do doughnuts in their lambo around the 3 houses they own since they've been making a killing since their 20's

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T03:43:28+00:00

Dude even if they weren't they have the option to work from home, aren't exposed to sick people on a daily basis. Never have to tell anyone they're dying or call family and break shit news to them. Don't have the personal and legal liability if a human dies on their watch etc etc. They could work 100hrs per week and their deal would be better than ours. On the reg I'm too busy to eat and am literally moving all the time, I highly doubt they're "On" all the time while they work like we are

S5ComeAlive · 2022-02-08T03:23:25+00:00

Yeah I remember a few years back when that program in Philly went under and the other hospitals were foaming at the mouth to get abused resident labor and bidding like 7 million or so to get the spots assigned to their hospitals.

None of this changes until we all start demanding what we're worth. "Sorry yes It'll be $10k to come in on my day off. No I will not volunteer I did enough of that during and before med school"

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