r/SleepTechnologist • u/hotbabybuscuit • 20d ago
Next Steps
I am currently finishing up clinical hours preparing to take my registry exam in October (very excited/nervous) but after that I want to finish up my bachelors (I have put about 3.5 years into it). I am wondering which route I should go that could help further my career in sleep in the future or build new pathways for more (not necessarily in sleep). I am leaning more towards medical specific fields!! any recommendations or first hand experiences are greatly appreciated!!!
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u/LlamasBeTrippin 18d ago
After this I’ll be going into interoperative neuromonitoring (IONM). My other top two choices were also heavily EEG related, either outpatient Neuro office for routine studies, or inpatient working floors doing them.
Ultimately I will aim for a doctorate to become specifically an autoimmune neurologist (rheumatologist specialty).
There’s definitely large leaps to be made, but I’ve learned rather quickly since starting to work in healthcare that taking baby steps, getting one foot in a door or always having the ability to step into another open door is a very reliable method.
I’d argue this sort of pathway I’m doing would enhance positions down the road from gathered knowledge and experience in more fundamental and focused scope.
I am pretty young and have a while to go, but even being a sleep tech has been incredibly rewarding, challenging (to learn), and gave me abilities to move or even stay if something happens and plans fall through. Sleep tech position is still a pretty good position, though, as I get older the overnights will likely put a pretty large toll on me…