Is this a smart career choice? I have spent most of my life doing music and working towards music, but for the sake of my readers, I will leave out all the tiny details (for length). That passion as a career has fizzled out so NOW, I am left trying to figure out what to do as a career choice at 22. I took an interest in the career as a sonography tech (I have always thought it sounded interesting but my school just started offering the program). Is this a good career choice? Is the program difficult? Is it rewarding? What are some other degrees that can be quickly obtained with a rewarding future? I would like to be financially secure and stable. Comfortable is a better word. I grew up struggling, I don't want to be like that. So I have been trying to think of what I can do for a career and earn a fast[ish] degree? I don't want to be in school forever considering I have wasted a good few years of my life working towards something I am not doing.
So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
It is a good career choice - it's stable, flexible, and pays well. It's also challenging. The schooling is difficult because there is a lot to learn, not only book-wise but you have to learn all the scanning techniques. You will need to make sure that your school's program is properly accredited. if it's not, don't waste your time/money. http://www.caahep.org/Find-An-Accredited-Program/
I strongly encourage people to job shadow this career because there is more involved than people think.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos273.htm
My brother has been a radiographer for 5 years. He works in a medical doctors workplace in Dallas taking X-rays and CT's. He has additionally labored in a Dallas scientific institution, yet prefers the hours at a doctor's workplace.. He has completed vacationing artwork in the process the U. S. too. He makes $sixty 5,000 a 365 days. The activity is extra bodily annoying in a scientific institution for the reason which you need to delivery the sufferers and a few of them require lifting, yet you do not come upon that in the time of a doctor's workplace. i'm specific the extra coaching you have the extra advantageous yet he isn't had any issues looking employment. X-ray and CT are in many circumstances completed in maximum primary practitioner's places of work, yet MRI isn't so it stands to reason extra techs may well be mandatory to do X-ray and CT.