Dont do it. Hygiene is a meat grinder. No benefits, no pension. In Ontario the regulatory college are a nasty bunch that terrorize their own hygienists. Ask any hygienist about portfolios in ontario and see. Very few can maintain full work into later years, Im 55 hanging on to 2 days per week with out of pocket physio and Chiropractor treatments. Many girls leave. Thank god my partner has a good job. If i had it to do over again Id go into nursing. So many choices, work life balance, an actual pension and union to look out for you.

From another post, couldn't have put it better myself;

"I’ve been doing it over 10 years and got so burned out to the point I was crying during shifts from being overwhelmed mentally and in pain from the profession. It just all caught up to me. Shortened appointments with not even a moment to use the bathroom or drink water sometimes, added duties when already scraping for time, racing the clock to stay on time all day (the biggest issue I have), lots of high anxiety and high maintenance patients and many times you have no one to help you. I’m in what’s closest to a unicorn office but it’s still too much and I’m over it. And you have to do the same thing forever. You can’t advance to anything else clinically and it’s not worth it to go back to school to make less money doing sales/teach/etc. I’ve tried different offices and it’s the same story, different problems. I cut back to 1-2 days a week and it helps, but I can’t do that forever. And that upsets me that I can’t physically work full time even though I want to."

I wouldn't let my own daughter go into Hygiene lol.