Can I have a job in medicine but still be traditional?

Lets_Go_Wolfpack · 2024-12-02T14:39:29+00:00

There’s a huge difference between pursuing a career in Radiology, and pursuing a career as a surgeon. My understanding is that Radiology would provide more opportunity for a stable schedule, and opportunities to spend time with family.

Regardless, both careers offer ample opportunity to be traditional in one’s personal life.

There are definitely pitfalls to avoid when seeking a traditional lifestyle when it comes to one’s professional life, but as a teenager, that comes much further down the line.

For now, I would just focus on the basics outlined in the sub.

Familiar_Accident802 · 2024-12-02T15:14:21+00:00

I am an MD (26 years old) and can perhaps give you some insight into my life. When you’re in medical school, you will be studying a lot; but I made sure I stayed feminine throughout it. I had hobbies, tried exercising constantly. And don’t forget part of being a good MD is compassion and empathy. You can really build your nurturing qualities.

I am now going into pulmonology resident. So, yes, I am tired…. But here is the trick, I try to balance my work life vs my personal life. I am still me, a traditional, nurturing woman that takes care of patients. When I get home I try to cook, on my free days I bake, crochet, exercise, read.

And just like somebody else, radiology is very different than surgery because of mental load and hours. I think it’s doable.

VasiliyZaitzev · 2024-12-02T22:29:31+00:00

You have to learn to switch gears. One of my sisters is a high-end banking professional. At work she is "Ms. First Maiden Lastname" - she had built a career long before she got married and was known in her field by our (hers then and mine still) family name. At home she is "Mrs. Husband's Last Name," or "Jake's mom."

SuchEnvironment1670 · 2024-12-02T20:29:59+00:00

I have the same dilemma as a second year medical student !

From what I gathered from my friends who are in radiology residency, radiology is one of the more family friendly speciality. During residency, you work 9-5 but you do need to study outside of residency since radiology has lots of learning.

Once you are an attending, you have the option to work from home as telerad and the pay is great in radiology so you can work from home, scale down your hours to part time and still potentially earn around 300-400k per year as a part time radiologist.

It is one of the more competitive field in medicine though so you definitely need to work hard in medical school to be competitive for radiology residency. Radiology is one of the better work life balance specialities in medicine!

RedPillDad · 2024-12-03T04:13:38+00:00

One of the challenges of building a successful career is that your income expectations of men tend to go up. Women usually want a man at their level or above. The further you rise, the scarcer the available men at that level.

pearlsandstilettos · 2024-12-02T14:27:05+00:00

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Radiant_Ad_6565 · 2024-12-03T03:01:23+00:00

Have you considered rad tech instead of radiologist? It’s a 2 year degree, and offers decent money with a great amount of flexibility- you can work FT, PT, “ as needed”, non traditional hours. It would allow you to comfortably support yourself and build a nest egg while single, then you could work much less when you wanted to focus on family etc.

Effective_Detail4268 · 2024-12-03T05:00:52+00:00

Also get as educated as you can while you want to ! One day you might be a stay at home mum and you’ll never regret knowing more! Read about this! Learn as much as you can before tradition family life (if that’s what you want) consumes more of your mind!

Effective_Detail4268 · 2024-12-03T05:01:40+00:00

You’re clearly very clever and I think you’ll figure this out x I hope your life is beautiful.

serene_brutality · 2024-12-02T22:22:26+00:00

These days it’s damn near impossible for most to have a fully traditional relationship. Life is just too expensive. So the closest most can get to traditional is dividing responsibilities in the fairest and most practical way but with the understanding that the husband takes the lead.

AutoModerator · 2024-12-02T14:11:49+00:00

Title: Can I have a job in medicine but still be traditional?

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Full text: Hello, RPW! I've been browsing this forum for a while and I want to ask you guys something.

So I'm young, still a teenager. Since I was a little kid I've always wanted to have a job in medicine (radiologist) but I'm just wondering if pursuing this would make me less traditional or something.

I want to have kids (but it's fine if my future partner doesn't want too), but I'm scared that it might affect how I would raise my kids and how I would be with my partner.

Would I be too busy to take care of them? Would my career consume me? I'm scared about those things. I feel this won't happen, as I've had multiple elders in my life be working yet have children. This includes my parents, but my mom works at home. But I should state that usually their jobs are in accounting and it's not as time-consuming as medicine. So would this affect the traditional life I'm looking for?

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Effective_Detail4268 · 2024-12-03T04:59:16+00:00

Just be yourself ! You could do it part time and your family will love that you have money but don’t have to work full time hours for stability

If anything it could give you more time at home and stability I wish I had this passion

If it’s really feeling untraditional wear some pink scrubs and that’ll take care of it!

Title	Can I have a job in medicine but still be traditional?
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Date	December 2, 2024 2:11 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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