Has anyone here had any luck with oldgeekjobs.com?
Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?
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Realistically I'm 24, can I still make this career switch? Anybody have insight? No college education. Can I make it by 35? The ROI is much better than development.
Isn't the 420k min partly to compensate for the amount of responsibility and liability, thus stress, if anything goes wrong?
Not to mention the student loans (/r/personalfinance is littered with doctors trying to figure out how to pay off their $300k student loan tab in anything less than a decade) and the decade+ of opportunity cost and lost income from those working years.
Most doctors make very good money, don't get me wrong. And most anesthesiologists make good money compared to other doctors. But there are much, much easier and less risky ways to achieve nearly the same standard of living and financial security.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?
#63http://www.indeed.co.uk has a very clean craigslist-like style which I find a joy to use when recruiting.
Indeed is my go-to job site. I found jobs both in Canada and France using it.
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Realistically I'm 24, can I still make this career switch? Anybody have insight? No college education. Can I make it by 35? The ROI is much better than development.
Nurse anesticist is a better "value". The catch is that the education is extremely difficult and expensive. Also, you have long term risk of cancer and other nasties from exposure to the chemicals.
Are you claiming there is a higher occurrence of cancer among anesthesiologists, and that it's linked to the drugs they administer?
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#65The newer matching services (as opposed to boards) are all worth checking out: Hired, Vettery, Underdog.io. I found many good leads through all of them, and my current position is through one of them (Vettery.)
AngelList Jobs is also a place to find interesting positions (startup-centric ones in this case, as one might expect.)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?
#66I'm a huge fan of AngelList Jobs [0], and made extensive use of it during my last job search, for one very important reason: they require all job listings to disclose salary/equity ranges up front. Some of the listings there have ranges that are more useful/realistic than others, but I find having at least some indication of potential compensation for a position is infinitely better than not having any idea at all, a…
If you are looking for a small (or smallish) company, Angel List is a great place to look. I found the listings to be high quality and the showing interest system works well.
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> minimum income: $420,000 Not bad! However, I imagine there's robots gearing up for this type of job.
Realistically I'm 24, can I still make this career switch? Anybody have insight? No college education. Can I make it by 35? The ROI is much better than development.
Yes, you could. But as someone who quit after medical school (now program for a living) -- make sure you actually like it. Because its a pretty demanding and time consuming job. Additionally, my wife is a Dentist. Dental school is both easier, shorter (no residency, some 3 don't even require a full undergrad) and depending on the job, makes comparable salaries. I know few dentists that work > 4 days a week. Personally, I'd hate the work. And I know plenty of M.D.'s who love medicine and would not be happy being a Dentist. But if you think you'd like it, I don't think there's a better job out there.
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Seems very focused on the U.K.
I'll go a step further and say it looks very focused on London.
A byproduct of where we were born, and how we got known. We users and jobs from all over, but yes, it's got a London bias, we're actively working on that over this year, and making the progress we wanted to. Any thoughts are appreciated.