DOCTOR WITHOUT PRACTICE

A doctor of medicine has hit a wall: after an incident in their life, they say they can no longer practice medicine and do not want anything to do with the industry again.

That leaves one blunt question hanging in the air: what now?

The poster opens with the credential that once defined the path. "I'm a doctor of medicine," they write. But the next line turns that into a dead end. After "an incident in my life," they say, "I can no longer practice medicine nor want to be involved in the industry in any capacity."

So they turn to the job market for help, and the problem gets even tighter. They ask, "What kind of work can I get into now?" The answer, from their own point of view, seems grimly narrow. They say they do not have experience beyond "some automotive tech work as a kid/ student."

That's the whole resume they're working with: medical training they can't use, and a little automotive work from years back.

The practical pressure is immediate. They say they need more money than a minimum wage job, but feel they "ostensibly don't qualify for anything but flipping burgers."

It's a stark collapse from one profession to the next: from doctor of medicine to wondering whether there's any job left that pays enough to live on. The poster does not describe the incident itself. They do not name a specialty, a clinic, a hospital, or a country. They just lay out the before and after in plain terms: medicine is off the table, the industry is off the table, and the search is now for anything else that can cover more than minimum wage.