<p>All things considered, salary, hours, schooling required, outlook etc.</p>
<p>I ask because I am currently on the fence between healthcare and engineering. I live in California, and it seems like there is an extreme saturation of grads in healthcare, and not enough jobs. Does anyone have any other insight into this? If the job market is really as bad as it seems to me, I'm getting out and switching to engineering immediately. Before someone asks, no I don't particularly favor one over the other.</p>
<p>All careers in healthcare appear attractive because of their stability to people and that’s why a lot of people appear to be “chasing” it. Most people got hit very badly by the recession and are still in this mindset, and are probably persuading their kids–or themselves–to follow it. Now, this is not bad unless the kid can’t handle what comes with healthcare, like insurance, stress, long shifts, lots of schooling, licenses, liability, etc.</p>
<p>Most attractive careers in healthcare would be any type of higher level of nurses like the nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, and even a PA. Doctors don’t have it as glamorous anymore because of Obamacare and stagnant wages. Nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants all require a master’s degree to do but PAs can open their own practice and practitioners and PAs can prescribe some medications. These two get to play doctor with less liability and schooling, but it shows in the pay (so no, no doctor salaries now). They are expected to have growth. Nurse anesthetists get fairly good pay with a lot of growth (and I really do mean fairly).</p>