Should I continue to serve as an IT specialist (25B) or reclassify to a 68W?

You didn’t mention if you were going to stay in and retire, what is your goals with either one, and what is your five and ten year plans. I came in as a MP. I loved the MOS, kinda regret reclassing, but became a 25B being it was new(74B back then), was growing fast, and promotions were crazy. The MOS’s couldn’t be more different, but I had goals and milestones to hit in each. Didn’t make em all, but there was a plan. Get one, study and revise it, and talk to folks who are civilians doing the job. We all drop that uniform one day and we see it’s different on the outside. As a 25B, if you have certs, not many jobs will match your pay especially if you have a current clearance. If you reclass and become a NCO and find that you don’t like being a medic, sucks to be you. AD won’t let you go back, your clearance will also be gone. Study long, but don’t study wrong.

Like others have stated above what is your end goal? I was a EMT B civilian side before enlisting as a 68W. I learned some awesome things on fort Sam but currently hate every day in the military medicine world. In garrison you will either belong to a unit or MEDAC but ultimately you will be tasked "temporarily" to a clinic or SRP site. You basically take vitals all day and type up patient encounters. Every now and then you remove a cyst and suture it up or clean a wound. This is torture for me. I worked in a very busy 911 system and got to help a lot of very sick and injured people daily and every day was different. The pay just sucks at 9-10$ an hour unless you are a paramedic but still under payed at 13-16$ an hour. My daily life now consists of different degrees of lower back pain, knee pain, and treating STI's. If you're with your unit you'll be in the field handling out ibuprofen and pepto. If you want in the medical field to get a great medical career civilian side go 68C or 68P. Also I forgot to mention as a 68W you'll either be in control of medical readiness reports or contributing to it so First sergeants can make people goto dental or do PHA's. Medpros is very mind numbing and never works when you need it too. This is my personal experience. I've had a couple buddies I graduated with goto the stan and treat civilian casualties that walk up but those deployments are rare. If I could go back I wouldn't do it. But everyone's military career is different along with differing personal goals.

Stay IT if you are in for the money/skill set, if you really care about taking care of people become a medic, I was a medic for 23 years retired and unexpectedly became a 2210 IT SPC, it is like night and day in relation to dealing with people,