Great article about changing careers!

1 min readDec 8, 2020

I’ve talked about losing my dream job because of Covid-19, which led to me going all-in on a career switch to web development from physical therapy:

I Lost My Dream Job When College Sports Went Away. Now I’m Switching Careers.

Even before the pandemic, it was hard to make ends meet as a massage therapist for college athletes

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But I knew by the time I finished PT school that the degree cost way too much, all the more so for not having improved my actual clinical skills:

I Didn’t Learn Anything in Physical Therapy School

The doctoral training physical therapists receive is broken — they learn just enough to keep you sick.

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Then I got fired from a company after a disagreement with my manager about scheduling, so I ended up moving across the country for travel PT work, but there I experienced bullying and harassment:

Allow Yourself To Get Fired and See What Happens

After getting fired three times in six months, I learned an important lesson about self-reliance and finding my…