Hi another career thread from me. As it seems one door has closed on me another is opening but just would like some real life views. A friend who is a podiatrist and lecturer has suggested I look into podiatry as a career move due to my background in massage therapy and biology. She going to arrange for me to shadow a clinic when I’m allowed out of quarantine but would welcome views from other practitioners. I’m leaning towards the sports injuries side.

It always seems to be looking up.

Something’s afoot, here… (sorry…)

Wife works with a lot them, they seem happy and have very good job security.

It’s quite grim work sometimes, that’s coming from my wife who’s a wound Nurse.

If you’ve got a foot in the door…

I have pretty grim feet so see a Podiatrist every now and again, she’s generally pretty chirpy and has been doing it for ages, seems to have no intention of stopping. She charges £28 and it take about 25 minutes, I usually have to book her a month in advance as she’s so busy, which bodes well.

I’m sure you need a fairy strong stomach and a sense of humour but if you’re prepared to deal with the grimmer end of things you can greatly improve people’s lives which much be pretty rewarding.

I work with a nice lady podiatrist.
She’s a happy sole.

My brother is a part time podiatrist, he likes to dip his toe in anything

Some of these responses are pretty corny

You’ve hit the nail on the head there Perchy.

Toe-tally.

My brother is a part time podiatrist

He’ll enjoy that.

This is a cheesy thread.
Put a sock on it.

It’s a bit callus to mock one of the caring professions…

I’m not a podiatrist, but I did once spend an afternoon with a sports podiatrist for a feature (I’m a journo) and it was fascinating. I don’t think general podiatry would be much cop, but when you get into things like running gait analysis and so on, it gets really interesting.

My wife is a Podiatrist, well Biomechanical Specialist.

She finds it fascinating and gets a great deal of satisfaction from making significant improvements to peoples health and mobility.

To me the wound care seems a bit grim, but she doesn’t do quite as much of that these days.

Happy to pass on any questions if you have them.

Matt

I used to hate treating verrucas and warts.
But they’re growing on me now.

/Tim Vine thank you

It’s a soulless job…

I think it’ll be a good move for a fun gal like you.

maybe not the best time

My wife is a podiatrist..
Can someone design a footcare glory hole, please?

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It’s a bit callus to mock one of the caring professions…

never criticise a podiatrist until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes

Cut me to the quick, that one.

These puns are making me (in)groan….

never criticise a podiatrist until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes

Agreed. Because that way you’ll be a mile away and they’ll have no shoes to run after you in.

Im a biomechanics specialist pod, working for the NHS.

I enjoy my work (mainly), and the variation in specialisms within what is already a pretty specialist field are significant.
Jobs are limited in the nhs (small departments, often with low turnover of staff) – but often more time is spent with higher risk patients, and greater speciality. Private and self employed is rapidly increasing. Most focus on the general care aspects rather than the more specialist biomechanics and woundcare.

My advice would be to spend time shadowing, several sessions – preferably NHS and private would be the best way to get a feel for the profession and whether it is something you would enjoy.
(Contact local NHS department and they could well help with shadowing if you discuss it with them.)

NHS are pretty busy right now though!!
wait until lockdown has finished as most of us our not working ‘as usual’ at present.

I’ve used a private one a few times. Two generations of the same family work there and all have seemed very happy in their work. Even when dealing with my hobbit feet, not a job I’d want to inflict on anyone but I’d imagine there’s plenty of oaps and others with worse conditions than my scaly slabs.

The reality is it’s a hands on medical/caring profession, not sure I’d want to do it but I’d wager most people who’d do that job would find aspects of mine seriously unpalatable too.

Once you find your feet things should really start to pick up…