HR or Physiotherapy (Career Switch)
 

Hi everyone,

I am a new joiner in this forum and would like to have everyone's professional and wise opinion on my dilemma that i am having now.

I am currently in the midst of deciding if i should switch my careers from HR to Physio but am hesitant due to a few factors.

1) Worried that i may not be able to survive the university course as my science has not been that strong in secondary school.

2) The career path / progression of being a physiotherapist.

3) 4 years of study against 4 years of working exp as a HR. (Basically the potential earnings i may miss against potential earnings i may gain after a switch)

Currently a dip holder in HR and 26 years of age with 1yr 3 mths exp in HR.

My current interests are basically keeping fit and enjoying work that allows me to run around and not be to deskbound.

With regards to talking to people, i am fine if there's a logical objective and meaningful conclusion to it.

What i would say to a career that i would like is something that allows me to actually make plans and have an impact on a positive impact on a person / organization.

A little bit more about me, i am open to criticism, working hard and basically just your typical "tell me what you need done and i'll get it done somehow" person in an office and in school.

Please feel free to ask me anything else that you'd require to know and i would be happy to reply if i am comfortable with it. :)

Thank you



Best Regards,
A confused local

Hello! Have u gotten onto the Physiotherapy path?

I'm actually contemplating the same, just that I had worked for 15 years and the pay cut is drastic. I'm still considering whether to pursue a more meaningful job vs making my company richer.

All jobs are meaningless. It's just a means of earning enough to put rice on the table. :(

Not sure about the pay potential of physiotherapy vs HR. But seems like you are quite ok with office work, and I believe the nature of physiotherapy is vastly different.

Maybe get a good sense if physiotherapy pays well, and if it is a path you intend to make a career out of it. Otherwise, it is a complete reset with zero overlap

From my understanding there are HR roles that involves events planning. The HR that does that in my company told me that its like a dream job cauz she is able to plan fun activities all the time, talk to many people and participate in them while being paid. Alternatively there are HR consultants that have to go around Singapore meeting clients (companies) and potential employees.

No idea about physiotherapy though, people in pain might sometimes be quite mean in words. I suspect that you might still be stuck in a location and not able to travel out much, probably only seniors are skilled to do house visits. (can try to google search a day in the life of a physiotherapist).

Pay wise shouldn’t be that important if it is something you are really passionate about. Ultimately you will enjoy (or suffer) and have to live with your own decisions.

The “HR consultants” are merely headhunters aka mercenaries. Please do not associate them with actual HR professionals.

Pay wise not important? You are really naive.

lol eh dun liddat leh. be positiveeeeeee!

physiotherapist starting pay is about $3.7K

https://www.ncss.gov.sg/docs/default...vicesector.pdf

already a lot better than some business fresh grads drawing below $3k

well said man. coz to me, if one decides to settle on a career path that helps people/patients, it is about the passion and the heart for it, it's not so much about the money.

I've been researching on the physiotherapy career path, and it seems like you spend most of your time on your feet to rehab your patients, then do some paper work and consultation.

it's not being naive, for goodness sake. pay is definitely important to any salaried employee, it's just a matter of priority, right? if pay is your topmost priority, then you wouldn't work in HR or physiotherapy.

there are a ton of social workers, nurses, teachers who don't earn as much as their peers in the private sectors in, say, investment sectors, but I can tell you without a doubt many of them are more satisfied than their peers in the cut throat wall street equivalent in sg. who is better off financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually? the thing is, there is no one single defining factor to say which job is better than the other. it all boils down to what we want to do in our lives and how we want to live it.

Just listen to your heart this once

Go for it!

The naivety in this post is shocking.

Hmm… Okay I apologising for mixing them up then. Was giving recommendation to TS regarding her desire to run around and does meaningful work.

I was personally thankful to a HR consultant that personally meet me near my office to give resume and soft interview tips and interview opportunities to companies I would never had the chance to get an interview chance if I applied on my own.

For me and you maybe we are driven by salary but for TS she is driven by meaningful work which I totally respect for and hence that advice. Depression and work fatigue is real and different people have different tolerance level. If TS have high stress tolerance then yea, just give up dream and chase $$$ lo.

Anyway to TS regarding studies people change all the time. I was last in cohort in my school during sec school, all sorts of teachers always find me to talk to me about my results, meaning E8, F9 for my science subjects but I’m getting B+ to A for 3 bio 1 physics and 1 chem mods in NUS (taking them as electives) Should throw away the baggage and start learning from scratch again.

Hopefully TS will make a decision she won’t regret.

Nah, your statement here is shocking instead. why so emo and arrogant and go around posting "This naivety is shocking" on so many people's posts? lol. get a hold of your emotions. please stop all these aggro la. pointless to argue.

the skepticism in this post is shocking....the world is changing.....heard of the Great Reset / Resignation / Lying Flat / FIRE movement?

Covid just gives a new perspective to work in the new world

one thing I must say is that, as we age, our worldview perspectives do change. and with that, our career objectives may change as well. like for eg, when I was in my 20s and mid 30s, i valued $$$ above everything else in a job and hence i chased very hard for it. but when i am older, i don't really place $$ on a pedestal anymore. true that money is very important, but it's not everything. everyone is different. we have different needs and wants and we spend money differently. some are ok with taking the train to work and some want to drive a BMW. so ok lor, u trade ur time, energy, mental well-being emotions and sometimes health for that promotion/more work/$$$$. nothing wrong in that. just be aware that we're all trading something for our jobs.

Don't apologise to such arrogance. u'll also come across such toxic behaviour in your workplace - best to learn how to combat it and put them in their place.

Bro here Steady

The circlejerk is real.

I only realized i had an interest in physiotherapy at my final year of uni. All this time, i just studied engineering without interest because it has a wide job opportunity. But i dont think i will go through another years of study.

When you are young, pls follow your heart :)

i am 29 this year, although im financially stable with no debts , i think im gonna be considered old by the time i finished 4 years of degree. Sadly i took a longer education path and graduated in 2021. I did some research and saw that to go into physiotherapy course is not easy and needs to be in a related diploma course.

Although my passion is to go physiotherapy or geriatric, its going to be tough. Best i can think of is to go on a massage/sports massage therapy course to aid in relieving pain on others.

I'm 40 and might just take up another 4 year degree with $2.2k monthly allowance to pursue this...do you feel young now? hahaha

I started my working life at 30, don’t ask me why ;)
Completed my distance learning IT degree at 34 ;)

Just do it bro if got no family commitment yet. Yolo.

Jiayou!!!!!!