Allen Botnick DC CNIM

What is the most useful piece of career advice you got as a student, and who gave it to you?

When I was studying for my BA in biology at Rutgers University a doctor once tried to warn me not to go into chiropractic. He said it would pigeonhole me as a limited provider in a limited field. He was right. At that time I didn't have strong enough grades to get into a more medically demanding profession so I saw chiropractic as a good way to become a primary care physician, however this was unrealistic given their limited training. Unfortunately, I was dissatisfied with medicine's lack of ability to help me with personal health problems at the time and very receptive to misinformation being perpetuated by chiropractic programs and especially echoed through the US Government 's Occupational Outlook Handbook which provided an unrealistically positive outlook for the field. These problems haven't been corrected and I try to warn students about them here on the site. Hopefully students will take the advice to heart and not make the same mistakes I did.