I am currently majoring in radiology technology in college. I really love science, math, and I enjoy helping people, and I have a part time job at an assisted living home that I enjoy quite a bit. So I thought radiology technology would be a good balance to all those things.
However, my school now wants me to have the COVID-19 vaccination to enter into the program, so it looks like radiology technology may no longer be an option. I am going to try to get exempted but I have spoken to people and the director of the program is very strict, so it looks unlikely that I will.
Does anybody know of any similar programs I could pursue, that hopefully wouldn't require the vaccine?
Maybe another school somewhere else isn't so strict? Maybe changing locations might be better than changing your life plan?
Even if you got exempted in the program you still won't get exempted in the workplace. If you're opposed to compulsory vaccination, health care is the wrong industry for you.
shop around, they may be the only game in your town but that isn't the only town
my guess is with those skills and your willingness to work with old people that is quite a marketable profile
Everyone else is already offering (or will offer) relatively good advice. I'd also include maybe just taking a completely different career path, but I don't know what else you can do.
So, instead, I'll suggest something that I don't think anyone else here would bring up.
Honestly, you might want to consider NovaVax as a compromise if it's that big of a deal to get into the program. It's supposed to roll out here in the US in the fall but they are still fighting with the FDA. It's a COVID-19 vaccine that is protein based, and not CRISPR, mRNA, or spike-protien based. It works like an actual vaccine does by giving your body exposure to the actual inert forms of the virus, rather than a weird genetic re-sequencer making a dangerous protein.
Novavax is actually an American company, but they've basically been pushed out of the US distribution since the FDA slow-rolled them in favor of protecting Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, all of whom created mRNA vaccines. NovaVax has been readily distributed in Australia instead, where they got the contract because the big 3 got too greedy.
NovaVax also has clear ties to the WEF.
It potentially could be better than the Pfizer/Moderna/J&J garbage but it is still a gamble.
It is important to note that taking any of these COVID vaccines is a gamble.
Safe and effective my ass.
My only point is that NovaVax appears to be a normal vaccine that doesn't carry the side effects of a CRISPR 'vaccine' that hits you with a spike protein.
It "appears to be" doesn't count for much these days.
After how much "public health experts" blatantly lied about every other COVID vaccine, it is important to take what they say about ANY vaccine with a grain of salt.
The fact remains that taking any of these covid vaccines is a complete gamble especially if you are young. Also there is no potential benefit at all for anyone young to ever take a COVID vaccine.
"Public health experts" pushing to mandate the clotshots have completely discredited their field as a scientific discipline.
Just find some batch numbers online and say you already got the shots
That's a bit dangerous as that is actually a crime.
This is a terrible idea and no one should do this.
They can charge him with a crime for this.
Lying and pretending to comply is not the answer.
Either try for an religious vaccine exemption or pursue another career field are the only real options he has.
Firsthand knowledge it works, they can’t charge you without proof that you were not at the batch location, and if the batch is from Jan-may of 2021 then good luck
I was on that career path in college. My advice if you love science and math is to learn sql and go a dba certification route. Or if youre willing to work from the ground up, start at a hospital working a helpdesk and get promoted from within. Most hospitals are generous with religious exemptions. Find a hospitsl system that uses epic as their hospital emr. Get some epic certifications and after a couple of years, become a consultant. Dont work for epic, just get the certs by working for a hospital system that has it and get promoted to the point where you get a relevent cert.
This is decent advice. Hospital IT systems tend to be unusual and bespoke. And old.
Building on it, learn HL7 and learn how to use a few healthcare IT integration engines (I'm mostly familiar with Mirth, but there are others). It's always a pain getting the various systems and instruments to talk to each other, and each site is unique. Usually a good amount of custom scripting and the like to make it all work.
BBQ speaks truth. Get used to older OS like XP and 5. I've even seen 98 at times.
Radiology as in reading scans will be replaced by computer. At least computers will reduce the people needed faster than people retire.
For somebody who's 20 it's something to consider so you're not 50 years old with no marketable skills because your profession doesn't exist anymore. Like long-haul trucking - might be 20 years away but it's only a matter of time before it's computerized.
Working with people like a social worker, ad-hoc maintenance like plumbing, or work where you have to understand and solve problems like lawyer or programmer will be the last holdouts.