Any outpatient clinic - suppose you work M-F 8-5. Get home around 530 optimistically after wrapping up. Dinner with the wife, chill with the kids, then it's 7. I start my bed time routine about an hour before I want to be asleep, and I take about an hour to get ready, so that gives me, what, 2 hours of free time every evening? wtf am I going to do for 2 hours? Not really enough time to engage in many hobbies. Am I going to go to the gym, watch some TV, take care of my garden, work on my project car, learn a new skill, etc in that 2 hours after a full day of work? F--- no. I'm useless after a full day of work.
What about the weekend? well all of the above applies to Friday. Then I get Saturday off to do the above. I could spend all day on various hobbies, great. Then sunday comes around, and I can also sleep in and do whatever, but by evening I'm then constrained by preparing for the week and going to bed early for work and then it starts all over again.
Hospitalist - Monday to sunday, 7-7. Even if I have to be there for the full 12 hours, I get home at 730, I have time for a late dinner, chill with my kids for a bit, then it's 9, then I have to get ready for bed. So, what, I miss 2 hours of "free time," that I wouldn't have really used in the first place. So I go a full week without much free time. But then I get a FULL 7 DAYS of time off. Even if I spend the first day "recovering" like everyone says I will, then spend the whole last day preparing for going back to work, then I still get 5 full days. I could spend a massive amount of time working on my car, learning a skill like programming, travelling(!) to pretty much wherever I wanted, getting swole, etc.
Not to mention making a decent amount of money for only 3 years of training.
Am I missing something?
What about the weekend? well all of the above applies to Friday. Then I get Saturday off to do the above. I could spend all day on various hobbies, great. Then sunday comes around, and I can also sleep in and do whatever, but by evening I'm then constrained by preparing for the week and going to bed early for work and then it starts all over again.
Hospitalist - Monday to sunday, 7-7. Even if I have to be there for the full 12 hours, I get home at 730, I have time for a late dinner, chill with my kids for a bit, then it's 9, then I have to get ready for bed. So, what, I miss 2 hours of "free time," that I wouldn't have really used in the first place. So I go a full week without much free time. But then I get a FULL 7 DAYS of time off. Even if I spend the first day "recovering" like everyone says I will, then spend the whole last day preparing for going back to work, then I still get 5 full days. I could spend a massive amount of time working on my car, learning a skill like programming, travelling(!) to pretty much wherever I wanted, getting swole, etc.
Not to mention making a decent amount of money for only 3 years of training.
Am I missing something?