 So, I have this question posed to me about double salary. You guys have heard me talk about the PA specialty and how we can work in two different specialties at the same time because of the lateral mobility and also the fact that most PAs are making like six figures or above. And I had a question asked, well, are you making double salary? So for instance, like $240,000 as opposed to the 100 and one particular specialty. So that is what I'm going to be addressing in today's video. What's up you guys? It's Adana. Welcome back to my channel. So I have this question posed and I told you guys all the time you better leave me a question because if you don't leave me a question then you won't get an answer, right? So you got to leave a comment in the comment section below to get your questions answered. But someone left a question on my previous video, one of my previous videos and I thought like, yo, this is a pretty dope question. So let me answer it. So I'm going to answer this question for you guys. The question says it's from Odelea DR. It says this might be a dumb question, but if you're a PA and you're working in let's say two specialties at once, are you basically making double the salary? Like if you're working in a dermatology and emergency medicine, would you be making like $234,000 a year? I'm a high school student and the PA profession really interests me. And I just want to say kudos to you first and foremost that you're in high school and you already know about the profession and this interests you. This is great. I wish I knew about the profession when I was in high school, but I didn't. But you know, doesn't matter, I'm here now. So it is cool. It's a cool question, but I just kind of want to break it down for you. So ultimately, I mean, technically, yes, you can make $234,000 a year if you're working full-time in both specialties. And then I guess you could also make like a high amount if you're working like part-time slash PRN, but you're picking up lots of hours in your secondary job. Because usually when you're working as like a part-time, especially in like something like urgent care, you get paid really, really well. But we have to be realistic here. So I mean, as a PA, you're working the same amount of hours as you would. Like most jobs, right? You're working like a 40-hour a week, maybe 72 hours for the full two weeks. But it all kind of comes out to be 80 hours for your pay period. Now to get that, you can have that in various different ways. You can work three 12-hour shifts, as I've talked to you guys about in, you know, when I was doing my critical care rotation. So if you haven't seen that, go ahead, subscribe to my channel right now so that you can see all of these videos that I post in the future and then all the videos that I've posted in the past, you'll get notifications for them as well. But I talk about the three 12s where you work three 12-hour shifts. You're on for three days and then you're off for four. You can also work a 24-hour shift. Like I'm working where you only work, you're only obligated to work, let's say, three days, three 24-hour shifts in a 14-day pay period. Obviously, some people work more, but you're only obligated for the three. And then you have your typical nine to fives or your eight to fours or your four to tens, but there are various different variations of how many hours you can work and how those hours are structured. Now for you to actually be gaining that full salary for both positions, let's say you're in trauma, which would lend nicely to what you're kind of trying to allude to and urgent care, if you're working like three 12s at the urgent care, then you're able to do that in working a 24-hour trauma shift. Now, is it going to be easy? No, you're going to be killing yourselves, you guys. You're going to be working, you can work like, let's say, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, your three 12s back to back, and then you can work like Friday for your 24-hour shift into Saturday, and then you have your Sunday off to kind of recover, and then you work like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then you're going to have to work like you're either that Thursday and Sunday or that Friday and Sunday in terms of your 24-hour shift. Now that's a lot of hours, and obviously you can do that if you're young, you're fresh, you really don't have any obligations, any type of responsibilities in terms of a family or a significant other because you're going to be working constantly, but it's doable. It's just like, I don't think sustainable for a long period of time, but that is the way that you would be able to get that 200, sometimes even $300,000 a year if you're able to sustain that for a year, but I really don't see that being sustainable because it's a lot of hours and it's very taxing. Like the 24-hour shift is extremely taxing, and you need those extra like two days or so to recover from that 24-hour shift to really enjoy yourself. Now, you may not necessarily be working three 12s and getting your $234,000, but you have the opportunity to work in, let's say, a shift that allows you three 24s or three 12s, and then you pick up extra shifts on your side job at an urgent care or in the ED, and you're working maybe two shifts a week or so. That is a little bit more sustainable because you still have more time to yourself. You still might just be working four to five days a week as opposed to every day of the week, and you have that recovery time built in because when you're on your three 12s for the 24, when you're on your three 24 hours, there are shifts where you're working two 24-hour shifts in the week, and then the next week you're only working one. So it's sustainable in that way, but honestly, let's be like being completely truthful and honest with you, I do not think that it's sustainable to work two full-time PA jobs and in two different specialties at all. And I mean, unless you're working from home at night, like you're on call or something, then those are the areas where it kind of gets murky and you're able to kind of sustain that. But honestly, if you're really going into the office or into the acute care setting at like the hospital or the urgent care, no, it's not sustainable. So no, you're not going to be making like $234,000 working two specialties full-time, but you could absolutely get to that if you have like your side hustle like most PAs do, like get that to university or if you're, you know, you start your own business in terms of like a home care service or something like that, a lot of PAs go into that or start clinics. And then you're doing your own thing as well in terms of your own practice that you're actually like you're practicing. So you're the career that you've kind of entered into whatever field or specialty that may be, be it DERM or emergency medicine or, you know, pediatrics, whatever that may be. But hopefully that answers your question. It was a great question. I like the way that you're thinking or, you know, hustling, trying to make sure that you're able to kind of make this money. But honestly, like depending on the type of life that you're trying to live, I would suggest that you get a job that gives you the salary that you can be comfortable with. And then, you know, you can pick up like little side jobs here and there, like once or twice a week. And then you'll be able to like really sustain yourself. All right, please leave your comments in the comment section below. You guys, I answer these comments. Okay, they help bring me content. I really appreciate that. 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