Re: what major should i go to? Need some opinion
I retired at age 55 from a career as a Physician Assistant. Since I prefered rural areas, it was perfect for finding a job, since rural areas have a hard time recruiting people to move there. my wife is a country girl, so we had a joint focus.
I could live where I wanted to (mostly away from large cities) and retired early and had the ability to negotiate a larger salary since I was willing to move there in the first place.
If I had to do it over again at that level I would be a Physical therapist. Not only are hospital having a hard time to recruit good PT's to rural areas, they by law HAVE to have a PT on staff. They can't do like they can with their dieticians, and have them run a circuit, visiting 10 or 15 hospitals per month on a rotating basis, they have to BE there every day. The PT's can practically name their conditions, price and relocation. Carte Blanch. Approximately the same amount of school, and a guarenteed job after paying some dues at a larger facility.
There is one thing about all this advice: No matter what job field you get into, the diference between merely having a job, and having a career that makes something of your life is YOU.
If you are what I call a "Hotshot", you will excell. If you are middle of the road, well, that is where you will stay.
In medicine, the "Hotshots " often have a job before they get out of clinical rotations. The Docs, the Charge Nurses, the HR all hear about that "One guy" who has it together. they come looking for that guy, and ask them to come to an interview. They also hear about the idiots, and bottom of the barrel people. The guys looking for jobs after graduation are going to be like that ALL their career.
Each time I went back to school (Paramedic, PA, and every single ACLS class not taken at my own facility) I got a job offer before the course was over.