Qualified as a radiographer and there are no jobs, need some advice :/

Rroff said:
Kicking myself I dropped out of electronic engineering - its one of those degrees that doesn't really lose its relevancy like the IT stuff I did instead (and covers a fair amount of computing related stuff itself) - even with the relatively sporadic employment opportunities around here it would open so many doors if I had that on my CV :|

EDIT: That said I was really struggling with it along with spending time on other courses - I'd really have needed to study maths and physics to a higher level than I had first before I'd have really done well at EE.
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Yeah I think anything along those lines - EE, Maths, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science - if you have a sound understanding of the theory then it is still a valuable degree to have decades later if you're working in a technology related field. Simply having a decent background in calculus, linear algebra, optimization and some programming ability makes picking up new things along the way or taking a post grad degree much, much easier. The more vocational degrees allow you to hit the ground running in some jobs but then you're often going down the IT bod route of vendor certificates and going into jobs that didn't really need a degree to begin with.

You could always study part time for a quantitative degree - Birkbeck, the OU etc.. if it was only a few years ago you could transfer credits from your incomplete degree too. Also check out this site:

https://see.stanford.edu/Course

you'll have to go elsewhere first if you need a review of calculus, linear algebra etc.. but there are some decent courses on optimization and machine learning. Plus some introductory programming courses if you need those too.
 
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Thanks for all the replies guys, It was really quite helpful

So just a quick update - I now have a new job... but it's not in Radiotherapy.

I now work doing PR and admin for my local MEP... however this means I'll be officially employed by the European Parliament, so I'll have this job until we officially leave the EU. It pays almost the same as a radiographer but I now get to live in my own house, meaning that I wont have to pay to rent on top of my mortgage like I was planning to before with the potential radiotherapy jobs. It's a win/win for me as I absolutely love politics :p

Just goes to show that it's useful to just simply have a degree (sometimes) and it doesn't necessarily need to be in that specific field.
 
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good on you, and in the years and years the eu exit takes:D a radiotherapy job next door could well come up if you take that route
 
Fus Ro Dah said:
Background information and my current situation
I chose this degree/career path as when I was looking 4 years ago they were in desperate need for radiographers and according to uni-stats 95% of students on this course secured a job in this field within 3 months.
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Back in 2008 I was a Careers & Skills Support Officer for the NHS and this was 100% true. I used to tell the students that if they wanted a 100% chance of a job get into Radiotherapy because nobody wanted to do it. I'm sorry it hasn't worked out for you.
 
I am afraid that like most doctors and a fair number of specialist nurses you need to accept you either need more move, generalise or change career. It's the nature of the game - things are centralised elsewhere and not that present in your region. You've chosen the latter and tbh unless you went abroad I think you've chosen the best option.
 
I know it's late and pointless, but hopefully good advice for others who might be in a similar situation. As a graduate, the best suggestion I can give if you're struggling to find jobs in your area is to move to where the jobs are. It might be hard to tear yourself away from family and friends, but in the worst case you're away for a few years while you gain some experience, which (usually) will make it so much easier to move back to your 'ideal' location and retain a reasonable salary.

To put it into perspective, I'm a complete introvert and thought I'd never be able to move away from family and friends. I graduated with a degree in Comp Sci & Maths, and there were absolutely no graduate careers near where I lived. I ended up moving to Cambridge, and even though I basically lived as a hermit for the first few years I ended up making friends and stayed there for over a decade. I'm now back in my hometown in the north, working remotely and earning a south-east salary. Ironically I'm now missing my Cambridge friends. :)
 
niko said:
thats not the same job as the thread starter, he would have to start again training wise. the op skill set is treating cancers not diagnostic
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This ^

Plus I'm not allowed in the Army anyway. About 5 years ago I took anti-depressants for a couple of months and because of that I'm never allowed to join any of the services.
 
d_brennen said:
Surely not? Aren't half the troops coming back from war zones practically broken anyway?
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Aye, I was in the waiting list to join the Navy; 2 years in I had passed my fitness and BARB exams etc and then it flagged up that I had taken anti-depressants and they made me "permanently medically unfit".

I then tried to join the Army about 6 months later and they told me that the Navy had put a bar on me trying to join any of the services.

Unfortunately it wasn't even a case of "wait a year and try again", the bar was for good. Simply for taking anti-depressants for a couple of months.
 
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