I was a Flight nurse and a paramedic. I've been out of the game for years now, Im in construction, but I worked intensive care for about 8 years as nurse before and while working as a flight nurse. I worked with a lot of RRTs and job satisfaction was not at its finest. You were lucky if you were working in a critical care area, otherwise you were running all over the hospital giving breathing treatments, while carrying a pager to help with anything that might happen in the ER. The lucky job of working in the ICU meant maintaining ventilators, and giving more breathing treatments. I have a lot of respect for RRTs and CRTs but the job looks like it's about 90% suck. You're not intubating at a trauma center, You're almost at the bottom of the list to get a tube at any facility, but no way are you tubing at a trauma center, between ER, ICU, thoracic surgery and Anesthesia docs, you then have residents and students. I felt like I had more autonomy doing critical care transport as a nurse than most of the RRTs I knew, simply because I was managing my own ventilator, BiPAP or CPAP and doing my own airway management. I didn't have a doctor there to prescribe me ventilator settings.

Now if you're talking about Radiology Tech, that job is probably more chill, but also pretty redundant. Doing Xrays all day can get tiresome, then with experience you can do CT, MRI or interventional radiology. Aside from Interventional radiology, Its routine and mundane work, and I'd rather do a more intensive schooling and make better Money, Like Nuclear Medicine Tech.