Who says a clinical engineer starting a new job needs to be paid a salary?
Eben Kermit, MS, CCE, worked 11 years in hospitals, first with Veterans Administration hospitals and later at Stanford University. When he left Stanford, he did not know where he was going. “Leaving one job without a new position is not for everybody,” Kermit says, “but there’s no question the uncertainty focuses your thinking.” What Kermit did know was that he wanted to take his engineering talents to a startup company that was doing exciting work. The opportunity to improve patient care directly was the ultimate prize. Intense networking led him to two companies he believed in enough to work for a time without a salary. Today, at Radio Therapeutics (Sunnyvale, CA), he is one of 30 employees, and as a result of the company’s success, he is no longer engineering its first product but training customers on how to use it. 4. Time for New Directions? You Be the Judge The career path of Michael Toll, PhD, PE, CCE, is hardly typical, but it is instructive. Toll has navigated his career guid
