Going backwards medical coding to CNA

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In 2015 I completed a medical billing and coding course and unfortunately had not fallen in love with it. It is also hard to enter without 2-3 yrs experience. Just a couple of months after completing the course we moved from PA to TX. Last year when researching entry level routes to the medical field I found CNA. Some of my family in the medical field steer me away from CNA telling me not to do it. Am I crazy to walk away from medical coding to CNA? The workload is different. The pay is different. The environment is different. I feel like in an interview they may think I am heading backward.

Any feedback appreciated :)

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In 2015 I completed a medical billing and coding course and unfortunately had not fallen in love with it. It is also hard to enter without 2-3 yrs experience. Just a couple of months after completing the course we moved from PA to TX. Last year when researching entry level routes to the medical field I found CNA. Some of my family in the medical field steer me away from CNA telling me not to do it. Am I crazy to walk away from medical coding to CNA? The workload is different. The pay is different. The environment is different. I feel like in an interview they may think I am heading backward.

Any feedback appreciated :)

I don't see how you'd be "going backwards". They're two unrelated jobs, and if I understand correctly, you have experience in neither of them?

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True. I guess I was looking at it from a knowledge base and I was curious if anyone else moved from the records side to the patient side of the field.

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