Career Exploration #1: Healthcare

Startup Tech is not just about building apps.  It's also about researching career fields so we can build real apps for those fields, and also to decide if we want to go into those fields when we grow up.  This week, we researched healthcare and did presentations about what it was like to work in the healthcare field.  

When you work in healthcare, unless you are a doctor or a nurse, your work can go unnoticed. Each health career requires different skill sets and personality traits. Most roles require excellent interpersonal and communication skills, some level of technical or mathematic capacity, and a strong work ethic. Additionally, most medical jobs require a great deal of responsibility and maturity. Your patient’s well-being, and even their live, could depend on the quality of your work.  A high school diploma or a general education degree (or the equivalent) is often necessary. Training and education programs are available to get you started, help improve your skills and advance your career. You might work in an HMO, community health center, mobile clinic, long-term care facility, private practice office, or a patient’s home. You might also be part of a small staff or a huge organization, working at the national, regional, state or local level in a corporate, non-profit or government office. The possibilities in this field are almost endless.

The medical field seems very complex as well as tiring.  You have to be very flexible.  A doctor can be called in to work at any time.  You could never plan anything and be sure it would not be canceled.  But you get the reward of helping people and making them smile and making a lot of money.