Long Hours, High Stress, High Compensation
Pros
- great benefits - great income - very good processes in place to streamline installations - phenomenal people to work with - you get to regularly interact with people of authority at the hospital you install.
Cons
The main con is the hours and the stress. Low upward mobility. The salary is good, but a little less good when considering that this job requires 55 to 60 hours of work a week as an IS. Work-life balance is difficult to maintain during the toughest parts of the install, and the leadership perspective tends to be to push through. I've seen several people pull multiple all-nighters a month to keep up with the intense expectations, even during "mild" points in the install. Training is insanely difficult if you do not have an IT background. Most folks end up okay, getting thrown into their project only once training has been complete. However, I got put on an escalated project months before my training was complete, and spent most days having panic attacks while I frantically tried to catch up.
