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Hey everyone! 👋 Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a degree that doesn’t quite align with your career goals? 🤔 That’s the dilemma our friend here is facing after graduating with a healthcare administration degree and realizing it’s not the right fit. Here are a few options on the table:
– Get an entry-level healthcare job and work your way up
– Take the supervisor position at the current job
– Go back to school for a different field
Personally, I think going back to school for a radiology tech program could be a great fit for this situation. It seems like a career path that could utilize the existing degrees while providing a fresh start in a field of interest. What do you all think? Any other suggestions or advice for our friend here? Let’s help each other out! 💡🎓 #CareerChange #NewBeginnings
Your major and minor is what I wish I did in college. I do not think that is a pointless degree, you need to find your specific area within healthcare that you want to utilize your degree in and start working your way up! Almost any degree is pointless without experience. Because of my knowledge in the field you could go into senior living and work towards an executive director position. You could start as an assisted living manager, care coordinator, etc, I think your experience at LTC and your degree would look great for those positions, and then eventually an executive director if you excel. They can make 90-100k+. LTC is very difficult, so I do not blame you for questioning if you would want to work in that area, it’s very clinical, people are very sick and a high acuity for care. I personally love senior living, people think that it’s just “old people in diapers with dementia”. But there’s so much more to it. You could focus on senior living/independent living that is for seniors who are completely fine but want the luxury of having meals cooked, housekeeping, recreation activities. I love the seniors because it’s so fun to hear their stories and I want to make sure they get taken care of well.
There are so many different options for you and your degree though! If you don’t like senior living, you could try a clinic or dental office. Just find your area of passion.
Heavily leverage your alumni network to get you a job or at least interview. You’ve paid for that degree, you should get some value out of it
It’s a bachelor’s degree a lot of jobs just want any type of bachelors degree. It shows you took some gen ed classes and are college educated/can be trained.
There are so many jobs in healthcare dude.
If that’s a useless degree then let’s not talk about my BA in Literature.
Better than my degree, certainly not useless. There are hospitals that look for degrees like that
bruhhh i’m 21 in the same boat except im not making 60k a year. i’m going to nursing school. going to grind my ass off as a nurse and hopefully, 10 years down the line secure a job as a director of nursing or something along that path. i also have like a 3rd of my masters in healthcare administration but it won’t do me any good rn. so yeah, nursing school it is. luckily i came out with no debt due to scholarships.
You can work in medical communications. Look at companies like IPG or Publicis. You can support strategies and tactics for pharmaceutical companies. Your degree would be perfect.
Healthcare administration isn’t a worthless degree; you just need to keep fighting for your break. I have a BS in anthropology. That is a worthless degree. I now have an MHA and work in hospital executive administration.
You should look at operations coordinators, analyst, program coordinator type jobs in large healthcare organizations. LTC facilities are very niche, so it’s not surprising that you struggled there.
I did nothing with it (sociology) other than work dead-end, minimum-wage, third-shift jobs dealing with drunks. So I went back to school for accounting.
Got my accounting degree from the exact same school as my Soc degree.
8 YOE later, I’m starting a new job as the 2nd highest accounting executive in a $220M company.
Moral of the story: if you do a basic, realistically-sober cost-benefit analysis to any future plans that involve obtaining high-value skillsets, whether it be medicine, engineering, trades, or another business degree of a slightly more robust variety, you still have plenty of runway left in your life to have a successful launch.
As for an mba, I would caution that you get a minimum of 5 YOE in a staff or senior corporate/back office role before going the mba route. MBAs are generally something to help Polish your resume, and not to actually build the foundation of it.
As someone that has a bit more than an entry level healthcare job, working on MBA healthcare mgmt now (my BS is PH and health promotion). There’s options especially if you’re considering analyst, QI program coordination, and so on. This then leads to dept / program manager in the future.
Personally I’m chronic care coordination so I’m looking at analyst or I/DD next.
I would take the promotion until you get off the waitlist if that’s the route you’re wanting.
That’s not a useless degree at all you just need experience unfortunately.
If you know you hate it, switch to something you will like more. Taking the promotion and sacrificing your wants and needs for pay is how people realize they actually hate themselves, their lives and their careers in their 50’s. Trust your intuition.
Sound like you need to suck it up and work Long term care for a few years.
Or yeah just throw your education away because it’s hard.
You’d work overtime in healthcare, too. Your degree is helping you now. Very few people love their first jobs.
Can you take the promotion and reassess when you come off the waitlist?