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My wife was a chemist in a chemical company and was so tired of training guys who were promoted above her she worked two jobs for a year and went to dental school and loved it. She loves her job so much she would do it for free if she could.
Mind you corporate dentistry is ruining things though according to her
Comment by JubileeSailr at 27/01/2025 at 00:00 UTC
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Corporate medicine is why my husband hates his job.
Comment by DontTrustAnAtom at 27/01/2025 at 04:19 UTC
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Interesting. My (F, 50’s) story, decades ago I worked in local govt. and we had to implement a chemical safety program. This was very new thing back then. I was a “secretary”, my official title. Since I was in school PT at night for biology and had just taken chemistry, they picked me to work w the Fire Dept on a chemical safety program and train 120 field employees. I did this successfully in 3 months as a 23 yo. The FD said it was excellent and ahead of schedule! But, according to my mgr (M, 40’s), this was interfering w my job, which happened to include payroll so they decided to hire an official Safety Officer. They hired a guy w a degree and I did his new hire paperwork. He was hired at $60K. I was making $21K. I quit 3 weeks later, got a student loan, moved to the college town in my state and went to school FT. Best worst, infuriating thing that happened to me. And to add salt to my wound, mgr was thrilled I was going to college to finally find a husband.
Comment by DontTrustAnAtom at 27/01/2025 at 04:19 UTC
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I wrote that whole story to say, I’m so disappointed to see these things still happening. Send your wife my very best wishes!!
Comment by RemonterLeTemps at 27/01/2025 at 09:34 UTC
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As someone who used to work for the ADA (American Dental Association), I noticed several common paths to the profession of dentistry (meaning the type of career someone had previously, if dentistry was not their first choice).
Doctor to dentist was probably the most common, followed by hygienist to dentist. There were also doctors who acquired a DDS or DMD in order to become oral/maxillofacial surgeons. Then there were the lawyers who became dentists; not sure what the story was there.