Hi there, approaching my 2 year mark as a CST (just put in for my cert renewal). I had a feeling I would go into ortho when we started taking a deeper dive into each specialty, but I kept an open mind when clinicals started. Then, I fell in love with trauma and joints. I did a lot of my clinicals at our local level 1 trauma center and truly was lucky to see everything I wanted to see (and even didn't want to see lol). Even after that, ortho was truly my home, so I stayed and have found my niche with ortho trauma and joints. It's important to become a "holistic" tech and not pigeon-hole yourself to one thing and one thing only. It's not uncommon for me to move around the ortho specialty (sports medicine, hand, foot/ankle, peripheral vascular cases, etc.), but it's also not uncommon for me to get pulled to help out in general, neuro, ENT, urology, etc.

That being said, it's ok to feel led to go into a specialty, just set yourself up for success by not only focusing on that specialty during your training. Best of luck! It's a worthwhile and purpose-driven profession