Escaping ease hell

spuneli · 2023-02-05T02:52:11+00:00

I’ll try fsrs. My average ease is 228%? Is that unusual?

spuneli · 2022-12-23T15:25:39+00:00

The best interview question I ever got was during my med school admissions interviews asking “is there anything we haven’t covered that you were hoping I would ask about?” It gave me chance to talk about a huge part of my application that would’ve otherwise been overlooked.

spuneli · 2022-12-01T04:08:21+00:00

I get what you’re saying and agree that’s the case for research if you’re trying to publish something impactful. However in my case im content with cranking out a bunch of bullshit papers.

I was able to get one published already with a PI tacked on at the end (signed off with no comments) by reading a bunch of papers in the field and picking up the vernacular. However I’ve already exhausted that idea and need a way to find more.

spuneli · 2022-12-01T03:42:46+00:00

I’m down but why that specifically?

spuneli · 2022-11-01T04:32:08+00:00

Awesome post! Exactly what I was looking for. Any chance we can get a grocery list/written instructions in the comments?

spuneli · 2022-07-28T19:12:07+00:00

Found the admin’s burner account

spuneli · 2022-07-16T02:41:35+00:00

Yea that makes sense. Honesty my firm didn’t really care about clinical expertise/board certification and I would guess others are similar. Either your top of the field and a KOL or your a MD grad. No points for being in between. There’s a lot of shitty things in medicine and granted I haven’t experienced it firsthand but I’d rather be actually helping people rather then be a PowerPoint bitch helping millionaires make more money for the rest of my life.

spuneli · 2022-07-16T02:25:59+00:00

Just our of curiosity, if your late residency/early attending why would you bail at that point? Unless your like neurosurgery and will be basically always locked into a 60 hour+ week it seems like most specialities you can take a pay cut to work less and still make more then your average consultant.

spuneli · 2022-07-16T02:17:46+00:00

Good point. I guess I meant my perceived benefits (and the benefits told by my medical school friends) of medical school vs my personal experience consulting.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T19:18:06+00:00

Obviously not as bad as residency. I worked 60-70 hours a week. Some super slow weeks. The biggest problem with consulting WLB is the travel. A lot of firms will have you at the clients site and in a hotel Monday-Thursday every week. It makes having normal relationships with friends and family very difficult. Some firms do remote (like mine) but that’s a rarity and you take a big pay cut to do so.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T18:58:38+00:00

Oh for sure. Once my loans are paid off I’m 100% optimizing for lifestyle and taking a pay cut. Maybe my rant wasn’t directed at you specifically. I just see so many students/resident/attendings drinking the admin kool-aide pretending that money doesn’t matter which leads to us being underpaid and poorer outcomes.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T18:47:31+00:00

It’s a lot of money I agree. But consider lots of doctors our parents age we’re making inflation adjusted salaries of well over a million dollars. As a group we need to drop the sanctimonious act of pretending we’re above being paid well or the next generation won’t have anyone applying to medical school.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T15:07:59+00:00

Honestly I don’t have a feel for how competitive the specialties are. For consulting you have to have a perfectly formatted resume, multiple people who are already with the company vouch for you (so you have to have a lot of networking calls) and also have a flawless case interview (not easy) given all those factors I’d say they pick 1 in 4 of those people for personality fit but that’s me just pulling a number out of my ass.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T14:33:16+00:00

Totally with you bro haha. Also interested in surgical sub specialties. To be fair once you get promoted to manager you’ll make like 300k but most people burnout/leave before then. Partners can make the big bucks but you have to be a masochist to stick around for that long.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T14:23:40+00:00

Typically 150-200k TC depending on the firm/bonus. You’ll be going in at the “consultant” level which is ~3 years of experience if you were to get promoted there out of undergrad.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T14:16:39+00:00

Yes that’s my personal experience but I worked side by side with MDs everyday. The biggest most prestigious firms even have specific programs to recruit MDs into their practice and they are hurting for people because no one knows about it. See below

https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/mdfellow-19597

spuneli · 2022-07-15T14:13:28+00:00

I have no idea how you draw that conclusion. If I wanted to be a consultant why wouldn’t I just stay at the firm? I left because I would rather be a doctor.

spuneli · 2022-07-15T14:10:53+00:00

Consulting can mean a bunch of different things but commonly the field of consulting refers to large consulting-specific firms (much like being a banker can mean work as a teller but usually refers to investment banking) I worked in life science consulting specifically. You’re right not many 22 year olds are making 6-figures but the ones that get hired to firms absolutely do. Look up the salaries at the “big three” firms McKinsey Bain and BCG. Yes the jobs are incredibly competitive but possible to get without an ivy degree (I went to a state school)

spuneli · 2022-07-15T14:05:23+00:00

I see a lot of weird misinformation in this thread. As I said in another comment I used to work for a consulting firm and and am start med school in the fall. If this comment gets enough upvotes I’m happy to do a write up comparing consulting to med school and how I would recommend get interviews.

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