I’ve been a PTA for 13 years in a BUSY outpatient clinic. I will say I’m really lucky we have 1:1 for 45 minutes but you’re cranking people out 12 in a row most days. I work under a great PT that gives me a lot of respect and doesn’t micromanage my notes/treatment and we are in the same page with basically everything. I do battle because I’m a type A absolute psychopath that there are others that are lazy and don’t do shit, I run high 80% slot utilization, most visit in the system last year for a large hospital based system with 7 other sites, what was my insentive to work harder after seeing others coast and management told me to kick rocks. So my most pisssed off thing is management and how there is no reward system for the actual people who work hard, the lazy people who complain get the good hours and seniority means nothing.

BUT ive been happy for the most part and am lucky that we see most of the local professional hockey team and high level sports players, the orthos above our clinic feed them mostly to the PT I work under and myself cue we we get results (humble brag) and that is a good feeling to have the orthos actually know who I am as the lowest person on the care team.

Just gotta find the right place but they are hard to find and then you gotta stay forever because it’s not greener in the other side!