 What's up you guys, it's Adana. So I wanted to come and talk to you guys because I had a question posed from my video last week. And if you have not seen my video, I was talking about how PA school is not for everyone or being a PA is not for everyone. And I'm going to delve a little bit deeper into that in the weeks to come, specifically about rejection fatigue. And I mean, it's like this term that I've coined. Well, I mean, I don't know if I've coined it. Maybe it's something that's been around. But it's just this idea of going after something or chasing after something, applying for something and then consistently being rejected from that thing that you are seeking and the fatigue and the frustration that comes with that. So I'll definitely be touching on that either next week or the week after. But in this video, I wanted to talk about a question that was posed from that video. Just asking about basically what other routes are there that you can do as a PA apart from just being a provider? So let's get into the video right now. All right, what's up you guys? So like I said, did that video had a question? The question came from World of Presa Canario. And it said, some may have conflicts of not having the ability to change roles outside of being a PA or a provider in different specialties. Time and life circumstances may require or desire change in roles, positions or type. Are PAs able to transition in other roles besides a change in specialty as a provider? First question. And second question is, are there a ton of opportunities in that area as well? Now, obviously like for the second question, are there a ton of opportunities that's relative? I mean, a ton of opportunities for who, right? You know, depending on your education, your experience, like maybe there might be a ton of opportunities for you in these roles outside of changing a specialty because you guys already know that as PAs we can cross over specialty lines very easily, very seamlessly. So that's not the issue. So World of Presa is asking specifically, what else is there outside of just being a provider? And so I know quite a few PAs, you know, some of them were my teachers who stepped away from being providers like in the clinic or like did it maybe once a week just to keep up their clinical skills and became professors and teachers. So obviously that's one thing that you can do. You can be a professor, you can be a teacher. Now, you have a master's degree, so it opens it up a little bit more for you, but obviously if you have a doctorate's degree and like education or even like a DMSC or I think there's like another kind of like healthcare doctorate degree that you can get as a PA. So depending on what you have, that will open up more doors for you in terms of the various different areas that you can actually teach in. But yes, there is other things that you can do outside of being a PA provider. And that one thing that most people turn to is being a teacher and kind of bringing up the next group of PAs. Another thing that you can do is be a clinical researcher. And so depending on the area that you're in, obviously like in the DMV area where there's lots of research happening or if you're working in an area where there are kind of research hospitals or teaching hospitals, there will be positions there for PAs to be kind of clinical researchers. Now, you're not providing care in the sense that you would in the hospital, you're doing lots of monitoring, taking various different labs and quantifying those and giving them to the researchers as well and talking about what this means for whatever it is that you're testing, whatever variable you're going on. So that is another thing that you can absolutely do is be a clinical researcher. Apart from that, you can be an administrator in a hospital or an administrator at a school or an administrator at like a private practice. So I've seen PAs that are the head of their particular PA department. It's kind of like maybe similar to your nurse educator-ish type role, but they kind of oversee all of either the APPs in that area. So including NPs or just the PAs. And so you would go to them for various different things. We have our own kind of PA administrative leads who we go to to talk about salary, to talk about issues that we may have on the job, to talk about other grievances, things that we like. They're the ones that we go to for our evaluations along with whatever attending it is is over that particular team. But ultimately, you can be an administrator if that is so something that you wanna do. So lots of kind of like more HR human resources type of feels if you're into that and managing people. So there are areas, I just listed three areas, education, research, and then obviously administration. And that is like across the board with healthcare, right? So those are kind of like the standards in terms of places where people go. And then you can obviously like open up these very like businesses, various businesses that you're running. You can do YouTube, follow me on YouTube you guys if you're just kind of watching this aimlessly and you haven't subscribed to me yet, go ahead and do that. But you can do YouTube, you can do other kind of like fun educational things like TikTok and stuff, YouTube shorts, or on Instagram. But at the same time, typically people run to education. They go to again doing research and then obviously being an administrator. If there are tons of jobs out there, I don't know, you know, like there are lots of people looking for these jobs. And so that's an even me seeing lots is relative, right? Because I can mean like, oh, you know what? There's like a hundred people out there or over a hundred people out there are looking for jobs as teachers or professors. And then you know, maybe somebody else might be like, that's not a lot at all. I'm thinking like tens of thousands or thousands of people is a lot. So again, it's all relative, like your skill set, your education, your experience will dictate like what opens up to you. But if life circumstances or just life in general warrants a change or you would like a change, there is a space for you, okay? So apart from just being a provider, those are the three areas that I would suggest people look into. They're there for you after you've practiced for a little while, you've gotten your feet wet and you've gotten your feel of dealing with like bedside. I guess you could say patient care. You can move into those areas and see how you like it. All right, and then after that, lots of PAs open up their own like jobs, their own careers, their own businesses outside of being PAs, lots of them have like various different side hustles because the job and the career allows them and affords them an opportunity to do that. So that's always a fourth option if you have that entrepreneurial spirit, okay? So thank you so much, World of Presa, for asking that question. If you guys have any other questions for me, leave them in the comment section below. If you guys wanna see any videos for me that I haven't done before, please leave that in the comment section below as well because I do read those comments and I look at like these other options for more content. Don't forget to subscribe, like this video, follow me on Instagram and it on the PA and on Instagram and get that so university. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.