“No matter how scared you are, you have to take a chance, otherwise you'll never improve”
Dr. Amanda Furtado used an unexpected layoff to give her career a new direction through Aesthetic Biomedicine. She says she always liked the health field, which is why she chose to study biomedicine: “I started this degree because I liked the health field, I've always liked it a lot.”
Even before earning her degree, she landed an internship in the field and worked in the lab's sample intake. With practice, the student progressed and was hired to work in microbiology, but because of the pandemic she was laid off.
Unable to find a job in her field and freshly graduated, the future specialist began asking herself what she could do to change the reality she was living. The solution was not quick, but it was certainly on target.
Working outside her field, at her father's company, she saw in that stability an opportunity to start a new career, “I don't like offices, clients complaining, it's really annoying for me, so I started thinking about how to get back into the market”.
A new door opened
Among the options in the health field, the one that most caught Dr. Amanda's attention was the specialization in Aesthetic Biomedicine, mainly because of the benefits the career offers. “I wanted something in the health field that could give me schedule flexibility, and I found Aesthetic Biomedicine”, she says.
After a lot of research on postgraduate programs, she found a higher education institution that met her needs, and she says the hybrid learning method made all the difference for her specialization, “There isn't one in my city, and since Nepuga offers the postgraduate program with online classes and only the practice in person, it was very interesting for me”.
A resident of Indaiatuba, in the interior of SP, she started the postgraduate program back in 2021 and is already taking the clinical immersion. Even while doing her first hands-on classes, she says she already wants to see patients and start her own business in the future.
The move to Aesthetic Biomedicine
Dr. Amanda's biggest frustration was being in a work routine she didn't identify with, she says: “When you do something you don't like, you end up going in pushed every day, and now, even though I'm in the same job, I remember that I'm doing the postgraduate program and everything is going to change, so I can stay more upbeat.”
In that sense, the postgraduate student believes that working in Aesthetic Biomedicine, the financial return will be much higher, “Working in a lab the return isn't good, you have to keep your hours exactly, you don't get paid very well, especially during the day; at night you even get a bonus, but that wasn't my case.”
With many biomedicine professionals migrating to Aesthetic Health, she is more and more motivated to work in the field. “From what I see, the aesthetics postgraduate program is in high demand for the financial benefits, but what motivates me most is also the flexibility, being able to set my own schedule.”
Another reason that drove her change of field was the work environment. Tired of working in a sad atmosphere, the specialization offers a new work reality.
“I worked in a hospital lab, which is sad sometimes, nobody goes there because they want to, people are unwell and are forced to go. So I want to work with something that makes people feel good, I want that kind of routine, and aesthetics provides a much lighter environment”, she explains.
Living up to the saying: Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life, Dr. Amanda says she had never had this view until she went through this experience. “I used to think it was silly, this idea of working with what you like, but when you start having to wake up early every day to do something you don't like, it starts to weigh on you. It's never easy, but when you go to work knowing you're doing something you like, it feels much lighter.”.
That is why the advice the future Aesthetic Biomedicine professional leaves for her fellow professionals who are thinking about changing fields is to take a chance in pursuit of what they love. “No matter how scared you are, you have to take a chance, otherwise you'll never improve”, she concludes.
Sarah
NEPUGA content team — Núcleo de Especializações Ana Carolina Puga.
