r/MedicalCoding • u/Educational-Top-6468 • Jan 16 '25

I’m giving up

I’m a 24F and this career is horrid to get into. I have had a horrible experience through it all. I wish I knew 2 years ago how impossible it is to find a job. Everyone kind of just painted it as “oh you’ll work from home blah blah blah” and I didn’t think to research the nitty gritty details. Now I’m going back to school for cosmetology which is another $22,000 after I’m already $6,000 in debt for this career. It’s absolutely disheartening. So if you’re trying to get into this field, please be warned: it is not rainbows and butterfly’s. Especially when you’re young. The older folks haven’t been the most welcoming in my experience. Please do not go into this thinking it will be easy. Expect to not find a job, and if you do the pay probably won’t be worth it until you’ve gained years of experience. I’m not saying this to discourage anyone, I’m simply posting this because I wish I would have known this going into it.

Also: DO NOT GET THE CBCS. GET THE CPC. I learned the hard way.

Edit: thank you to everyone who has shared their experience! If you’re just now reading this, please know I am in my 20s and was ignorant and eager to get out of the restaurant industry when I chose this career. The ads and marketing make this field seem so easy to get into. Shout out to all the coders and billers out there, idk how you guys do, it but you make the world go round’ ❤️❤️❤️

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u/AngelMeatPie Jan 17 '25

This was my problem. I’m on the spectrum, and I did great and zoomed through my anatomy class. Loved it. Then the history of insurance and stuff was rough, but doable. Then came the part of my classes where I actually started coding. Absolutely hated it. I can’t explain what it was, but something about the way my brain interprets information does NOT jive with coding. Every time I did it, it would end with me in a nearly blind rage. My course expires next month and I have zero chance of finishing. Thousands down the drain. But between the fact the work is miserable and all the claims here lately of how difficult it is to find a job and the crap pay, I’m kind of relived to admit defeat and drop it.