Should You Become A Respiratory Therapist?
I get a lot of emails from people who are considering going to college to become a Respiratory Therapist. But because of something a respiratory therapist said, you are now having second thoughts. My humble advice to you is: Don't fail to do something you think you'd enjoy because of something someone else said. Okay? Don't do it. Don't let someone else's negativity towards their own job sway you from doing something. Let me just give you some of my own examples. I'm 47 years old now. Often I wonder what my life would be like today if I had become a teacher. I had thought long and hard about choosing the career of teaching long before I ever became a respiratory therapist. So, here I was a Senior in High School. I had two teachers I really respected. I asked both these guys if teaching was a good profession. To my dismay, they were both very negative about the job, "There's a lot of burnout! The pay isn't good!" Are some of the negative commen...