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Originally Posted by LTL
For whatever reason, the RTs that have left that seems to be the chosen field that they go into, not sure why.
Yea it's a trade off at times, which is like what you said, it's the reason some of the RTs smoke, their way of dealing with the stress. Have no idea if it's accurate or not, but when I was going thru school we got told that RTs are the heaviest drinkers next to DRs. That one I do believe their is some truth to it, I know quite a few that do alot of drinking.
Why did you get out of it?
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Part of it was that I started bringing home the life and death with me. I worked ICU and ER the last 5 years I was in the field at a level 1 trauma center. That trade off started to get to me. Losing patients became a burden. I never screwed up but it was the thoughts of what could I have done different etc. Another part was money. I was as highly paid as any RRT in the city but you start thinking of college for the kid, retirement funds and where that money is going to come from etc.
I think being good as an RT or a nurse does give you those "intangible" skill sets that help in I.T. A server/network crashes you see a lot of panic by some techs but in my case I'm like please....I know the best way to get brains out of a lab coat. I've seen and lived in life and death on a daily basis for years and this isn't life and death, take a breath and lets go fix it.