Become a Child Psychiatrist.

Operation Theatre Technicians (OT Technicians) are the backbone of every surgical team — they set up the sterile field, prepare instrument trays, manage autoclave sterilisation, and assist scrub nurses and surgeons intra-operatively. In India, the role is entered via a B.Sc OT Technology (3-year) or Diploma in OT Technician (2-year) after 12th PCB, and is in high demand at corporate chains (Apollo, Fortis, Max, Manipal), AIIMS and government district hospitals, and standalone surgical centres. Experienced technicians who specialise in Cardiac OT, Neuro OT, or Robotic-assisted surgery earn significantly higher salaries and are actively recruited to GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman) on tax-free packages.

Pharmacists in India sit at the safety checkpoint between a doctor's prescription and the patient who will actually swallow the tablet — verifying drug dosages, flagging interactions, counselling patients on use, and in many settings being the most accessible healthcare professional in a neighbourhood. The qualification ladder runs D.Pharm (2 years) for retail / community pharmacists, B.Pharm (4 years after Class 12 with PCB / PCM) for hospital and industry roles, and M.Pharm or Pharm.D (6 years, an emerging clinical-pharmacy track) for hospital-clinical, regulatory, and R&D careers. Workplaces split sharply across three lanes: retail / community pharmacy (Apollo Pharmacy, MedPlus, Wellness Forever, neighbourhood chemists), hospital pharmacy (AIIMS, Apollo, Fortis, Manipal — drug-store, IV admixture, oncology day-care, ICU unit-dose), and industry (Sun Pharma, Cipla, Dr. Reddy's, Lupin, Pfizer India, Aurobindo) covering R&D, formulation, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and medical affairs. State Pharmacy Council registration after qualification is mandatory before practising — and the council under the Pharmacy Act 1948 is a real, audited credential the Drug Inspector can ask for at any moment.

Plastic Surgeons in India operate across two interlocking practices: reconstructive surgery (burn management with split-thickness and full-thickness skin grafts, cleft lip/palate repair using Millard or Tennison-Randall techniques, free flap microsurgery for post-oncological and post-traumatic defects, hand surgery including replantation and tendon reconstruction) and cosmetic/aesthetic surgery (rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, rhytidectomy, breast augmentation with Baker Grade monitoring, abdominoplasty, liposuction, hair transplant via FUE/FUT). The canonical path is MBBS + MS General Surgery + M.Ch Plastic Surgery (3 years via NEET-SS) at AIIMS, PGI Chandigarh, KEM Mumbai, CMC Vellore, or PGIMER — giving access to both high-volume reconstructive units (burn wards, trauma centres, cancer reconstructive teams at Tata Memorial) and a premium cosmetic practice in metro cities. Aesthetic-only clinics such as Sculpt India, Cocoona, and Anti-Clock have created a parallel high-income private track; senior cosmetic practitioners in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru clear ₹2–8 Cr annually.

Siddha doctors in India practise one of the oldest indigenous medical systems — rooted in the Tamil Siddhar tradition, with a 5,000-year lineage attributed to the 18 Siddhars including Agasthiyar and Yugi Munivar. The standard route is BSMS (Bachelor of Siddha Medicine and Surgery, 5.5 years including 1-year compulsory internship) from a CCIM/NCISM-recognised college, admitted through NEET-UG via AYUSH counselling. Practice centres on Mukkutram (Tridosha analogue: Vali/Vata, Azhal/Pitta, Iyam/Kapha) diagnosis through Envagai Thervu (eight-fold examination including Naadi/pulse reading, tongue, eyes, urine, stool, sound, skin, complexion), and prescription of mineral-metallic formulations: Parpam (calcined metals/minerals), Chendooram (red oxide preparations), Mezhugu (wax-based formulations), and Kashayam (decoctions). Thokkanam (classical Siddha massage and manipulative therapy) and Varmam (vital energy-point therapy) are additional procedural skills. The field is highly concentrated in Tamil Nadu — which operates the National Institute of Siddha (NIS Chennai), Arignar Anna Government Hospital of Indian Medicine, and the country's largest state AYUSH Siddha infrastructure — with secondary presence in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and among the Tamil diaspora in Sri Lanka and Singapore.

Veterinary doctors in India diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases in animals ranging from companion pets (dogs, cats, exotic birds) to livestock (buffalo, cattle, poultry), wildlife, and aquaculture. The qualifying degree is B.V.Sc & A.H. (Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, 5 years including a 6-month internship) from a VCI-recognised college, admitted via NEET-UG. Practice settings span state Animal Husbandry Departments (AHD), private small-animal hospitals in metro cities (Cessna Lifeline, CGS Hospital, Petcura network), dairy cooperative veterinary units (Amul, Nandini, Mother Dairy), poultry integrators (Suguna, Venkateshwara Hatcheries), pharma companies (Zoetis, MSD Animal Health, Elanco), and wildlife / forest departments under the MoEFCC. India's urban pet-care boom — over 32 million pet dogs alone in 2025 — has created a wave of corporate multi-specialty small-animal hospitals in tier-1 and tier-2 cities, bringing surgical specialties (orthopaedics, ophthalmology, oncology) that barely existed 10 years ago.

Nutritionists in India design evidence-based food, nutrient, and lifestyle plans that improve metabolic, hormonal, and chronic-disease outcomes — distinct from clinical dietitians (typically hospital-based RD-IDA-registered roles managing tube feeds, post-surgical, and ICU nutrition) by their stronger lean towards community, corporate-wellness, sports, and private-practice work. Standard routes are B.Sc Food, Nutrition & Dietetics or B.Sc Home Science (Nutrition major) followed by M.Sc Dietetics & Food Service Management or M.Sc Clinical Nutrition; the Indian Dietetic Association RD (Registered Dietitian) credential is the highest-respected India qualification. Practice settings span hospital wards (Apollo, Fortis, Manipal, Max, Medanta), corporate-wellness companies (HealthifyMe, Cure.fit, Truweight, Nourish, Possible, Cult.fit), gym and sports-nutrition consultancies, school and government nutrition programs (POSHAN, ICDS), and increasingly Instagram / YouTube-driven private clinics where a senior nutritionist can run ₹15-50L+ practices on personal-brand reach. The work blends rigorous biochemistry (macronutrient calculation, micronutrient assessment, body-composition tracking, lab-marker interpretation) with sustained behaviour-change coaching — the patient who knows what to eat is not the patient who actually eats it, and the difference is the nutritionist's craft.

An Indian Economic Service (IES) Officer is a Group A central-government economist, recruited through the UPSC IES Examination, who provides professional economic analysis to Union ministries and constitutional bodies. Officers are posted to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), NITI Aayog, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance's EA Wing, and on deputation to the RBI. Core work spans drafting the Economic Survey of India (the flagship pre-Budget document authored from within the Economic Adviser's office), preparing fiscal-multiplier estimates for the Union Budget, advising on monetary-fiscal coordination with the RBI, staffing Parliamentary Committees on finance and economic legislation, and producing macro-research briefs for Cabinet-level decisions. Entry is at the Assistant Director level (Pay Level 10, ₹56,100 basic), with a career ladder reaching Principal Economic Adviser or Secretary (EA) at the apex and occasionally the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. The IES cadre numbers ~500 officers, making it significantly smaller and more specialist than the IAS, and virtually every officer works on live policy questions — there is no equivalent of a district-administration posting.

Senior: ₹30.0L

UPSC Coaches prepare adult aspirants for the Civil Services Examination — the three-stage Prelims (GS Paper 1 + CSAT Paper 2), Mains (GS Papers 1-4, Essay, and one optional subject), and the Personality Test (interview) — the most competitive exam in India with approximately 1 million candidates vying for roughly 1,000 IAS/IPS/IFS/IRS seats each year. The profession is headquartered in Delhi's coaching clusters (Mukherjee Nagar, Rajinder Nagar, Old Rajinder Nagar, Karol Bagh) and has migrated significantly online through Unacademy Plus, BYJU'S IAS, Adda247 IAS, and PW IAS. Top-tier brands — Vajiram & Ravi, Vision IAS, Drishti IAS, Insights on India, Shubhra Ranjan IAS, Plutus IAS, ForumIAS — run structured annual batches and sell standalone test series; a handful of star educators like Vikas Divyakirti (Drishti), Mrunal Patel (Economy on Forum IAS/Unacademy), and Shubhra Ranjan (PSIR optional) have built national brands through YouTube and online courses. The role demands mastery of NCERT-to-advanced level content across multiple GS papers, current-affairs synthesis, answer-writing pedagogy, and aspirant mentorship across a 1-3 year exam cycle.

Senior: N/A

Software Technical Writers produce the documentation that lets developers integrate APIs, deploy SDKs, and operate software products without filing support tickets — API reference docs (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), tutorials, how-to guides, conceptual explanations, SDK code samples, changelogs, and migration guides. Unlike a content writer or copywriter, this role requires reading actual source code, understanding HTTP request/response cycles, testing code snippets in at least two runtime environments, and structuring content using the Diátaxis framework (tutorials, how-to guides, reference, explanation). In India the role is concentrated at API-first and SaaS companies — Atlassian, Postman, Hasura, Razorpay, Freshworks, Amazon, Microsoft, BrowserStack, Atlan — and is one of the most remote-eligible technical roles that doesn't require passing LeetCode. Senior technical writers at US-headquartered companies working from India routinely reach ₹60-100L; US-remote contracts pay ₹1.5-2.5Cr.

Senior: ₹75.0L

Speech-language pathologists (popularly called speech therapists) in India assess and treat communication and swallowing disorders across the entire age range — for a 3-year-old with delayed language, that means parent-coached play-based therapy, articulation work, and AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) introduction; for a 12-year-old who stutters, it means fluency shaping and cognitive-behavioural support; for a 62-year-old post-stroke with Broca's aphasia, it means melodic intonation therapy, naming drills, and sentence reconstruction; for a post-laryngectomy adult, it means oesophageal-speech / electrolarynx / TEP voice rehabilitation; and for a 7-year-old with a cochlear implant, it means auditory-verbal therapy. The qualifying degree is BASLP (Bachelor of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, 4 years including 6-month internship) admitted via NEET-UG or institute-specific entrance exams; MASLP (Master, 2 years) and PhD pathways exist for specialisation. Practice settings span government super-specialty centres (AIISH Mysuru — the country's leading institute, NIMHANS Bengaluru, AIIMS Delhi, ISHA-affiliated tertiary centres), private hospital ENT and rehab departments (Apollo, Fortis, Manipal, Continental), cochlear-implant programs (Cochlear, MED-EL, Advanced Bionics India tie-ups with Apollo, Madras ENT, Manipal), independent paediatric speech-and-language clinics, and increasingly tele-therapy for tier-2 / tier-3 / NRI families. RCI (Rehabilitation Council of India) registration is mandatory; ISHA (Indian Speech and Hearing Association) is the professional body. The field is structurally under-supplied in India and high-impact across paediatric, adult, and geriatric populations.

Senior: ₹18.0L

Psychiatrists are the medical doctors of mental health — diagnosing and treating depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, ADHD, addiction, dementia, eating disorders, and the complicated overlap zones where brain biology meets life circumstance. Unlike clinical psychologists, psychiatrists prescribe medication, admit patients, run ECT, manage medical comorbidity, and carry the legal authority to certify mental capacity, sign committal orders under the Mental Healthcare Act 2017, and direct inpatient psychiatric care. The Indian path is MBBS plus MD Psychiatry (3 years) via NEET-PG — competitive but not as crushing as surgery or radiology — with premier seats at NIMHANS Bangalore (the most prestigious mental-health institute in South Asia), AIIMS Delhi, IHBAS Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh, JIPMER, and CMC Vellore. Workplaces span government psychiatric institutes, large private hospitals (Apollo, Fortis, Manipal, Max, Medanta), stand-alone psychiatric and de-addiction centres (Hope Trust, Cadabams, Manas), private clinics, and the rapidly growing Indian online-mental-health platforms (Amaha, Lybrate, Practo, MFine, Manastha) where senior consultants now earn supplementary ₹15-50L from tele-consults. Demand has structurally exploded post-COVID — India has roughly 0.75 psychiatrists per 100,000 population versus a WHO recommendation of 3, and the supply-demand gap will widen for the next two decades.

Senior: ₹60.0L