Former doctor Evgenia Galinskaya, has spent many years of struggling to find what the right alternative career for her. Despite of thousands search results from google, nothing seemed right for her passion and interest. She is now a career coach, and has a website www.otheroptionsfordoctors.com.

Evgenia has shared 5 reasons why list of alternative careers for doctors can be dangerous, which are outlined below:

1. One size fits all

• Forcing doctors to fit into predefined boxes without first assessing the elements that would lead to your happiness and fulfilment

2. Limited career choices

• The lists often assume that your new path will have a medical flavour

3. Demotivation

• The limited lists may make you feel discouraged that you will ever find an alternative job and so you stick to what they have been doing instead

4. Damaging effect on health

• The ill effects of the “wrong career” can be in the form of physical and mental health problems

5. Trusting others to tell you what’s best for you

• The lists are based on other people’s experience which may be completely irrelevant to you

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