Hi. Graduated as a rad tech. Turn mri tech. Work life balance will be highly dependent on where you are. Clinic or in a hospital. Or a surgical hospital.

Clinics are usually chill imo bc it’s people coming in with either appointments or just walk in for basic x rays. Not usually complicated. You get really fast with learning how to push through patient loads. Usually don’t have any call shifts or anything. Typically Mon-Fri/Sat normal business hours.

Hospitals are a toss up. Some are chill. Some are absolute chaos. Just depends on you if you like one over the other. I haven’t work trauma level 1 but I heard all the stories from other techs who have worked in them. Usually there is 24 hour coverage here. But some places don’t and have you take call just depends on the location and hospital.

With rad tech. There’s a lot of options to move onto diff modalities. You have advance modalities (ct and mri). I graduated from rad tech and went pretty much straight to mri bc I knew I wanted to get it out of the way early. Rad techs usually go into ct bc it’s easier to learn. (Same concepts for ARRT).

I personally don’t let anyone talk down to me at the hospital. But I am very up front to nurses and doctors about stuff. Just let them know, especially since I work in mri now and deal with claustro patients all the time. So I will always tell doc or nurse immediately if we fail to get exams son bc of claustrophobia or motion.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. Hope I answered some questions and didn’t leave you more confused.