re: Any rad techs?

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Any rad techs?
Thinking about starting a new career. Is night school a possibility? Advantages? Disadvantages?

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Depending on where you live it can be kind of a competitive field to get into. Once in, it opens up to a ton of Allied fields associated with it to specialize like NM, US, Rad Therapy, CT, MRI, Cath Lab, Spec procedures etc...

That said, being an Xray technologists can be kind of boring and repetitious unless you work at a major trauma hospital or surgery center. There is constant pressure to be registered and stay that way with continuing medical education (like nurses, therapists, etc...)

Doing portables can be tough on your back and the radiologists can be absolute pricks. Usually, there is at least one a-hole in every group.

Anyway, the pay is OK, not great. Some specialties make bank though. Usually, radiology departments have some fun characters to horse around with.