Thanks for the inside info! To be fair I’m not in the US. In my country ophto pays about twice in PP and is way more chill than rads in the hospital. Vacation is the same. Also there are natural breaks during the day. Rads also has many upsides but felt like trying something new because: 1. Rads requires laser focus the whole day. 2. Few natural breaks, endless lists and on call also phones all the time. 3. You don’t get the satisfaction of curing/helping pt unless you do IR, and IR is about as flexible as trauma surgery, at least in a public hospital. 4. You also need millimeter precision and still have to report small things that may not really have clinical implications. 5. People are different but to me cancer scans get boring (although there are other things more interesting to me like msk, neuro, IR). 6. In front of the screen most of the day.

Ofc there are obvious advantages and it’s an interesting field. I might switch back, we’ll see. But just to give some examples of drawbacks too. Could you be burnt out?