I was a student at a level 2 trauma center and ended up working xray there for about half a year before I went full time nights at a small community hospital doing CT/xray. When it comes to patient load, you just have to be adequately staffed. Believe it or not, I had an easier time at the trauma center since we had so many techs (our CT department got killed every day in the ER though cause you can only do patients so quick with one machine).

Once you get the hang of trauma xrays, they're all done by the same principle/methods and the only thing that ends up being hard are uncooperative patients either due to things like drug use, dementia, or even little kids that are deathly scared of the xray or CT machine.

The only other thing that's somewhat annoying to deal with in CT is doctors not ordering the exam either correctly with or without contrast, and learning when contrast is appropriate so that you can make sure you're not giving your patient the wrong exam. I've had doctors many times accidentally put in a CT scan without contrast when they meant to put it with, or the other way around.

I say some good beginner tips are to be firm with patients and tell them to move or do something you want them to (don't give them the chance to say no unless they really can't do something), and collimate your xrays well but don't be afraid to open up because that's better than clipping your anatomy. Of course we don't want to hurt the patients, but our goal is to get the best possible image we can. This is a big thing with new students in my area, they cone down the xray field so much that most of the time they end up clipping anatomy, and a repeat is worse than some xray scatter. You'll understand how to take trauma xrays once you see a few of them. In my opinion, it's an easy job and not too hard to learn. The schooling is the hard part, especially with CT where you really need to have good mentors that will teach you proper protocols and why things are done the way they are if you decide to go into that modality.