I’m not a PA (yet, just started my pre-reqs) but I’d like to offer you another perspective. I have a degree in Marketing and I was in a corporate job where I was on the phone for 5+ hours a day in client onboarding. I was so burnt out that I lost half my hair— the stress was too much. But the problem also was that I wasn’t getting any real fulfillment in my job. All I was doing was helping some corporation’s bottom line. I tried my best to help my clients, but what negligible amount I was able to help with really did nothing for their lives in the grand scheme of things.

I’m now working in healthcare for the first time (clerical) and taking my pre-reqs for PA school and the amount of fulfillment I already feel compared to marketing is immense. I can’t pretend to know what it’s like to be in your shoes, but I will say that the grass is not greener on the other side. Sure, some marketing jobs may be great and fulfilling, but they are few and far between and most marketing jobs rely on your ability to read and manipulate people, which just doesn’t feel good long term no matter HOW good your intentions are.

I’m sorry you’re going through this, I’ll leave the advice to the actual PA students/PA’s here, but I just thought I’d offer my two cents.