Adult content creator Reyna Nguyen has revealed that she plans to return to medicine and pursue a career as a dermatologist, despite potentially taking a significant pay cut.

Reyna has always wanted to become a doctor .

At university, she studied bioengineering with a pre-med concentration and previously prepared to sit the MCAT.

But after deciding to pursue adult content, Reyna put her medical ambitions on hold, believing she had found a faster route to financial independence.

Now, after several years building a successful online career , she says she is ready to return to the career she originally wanted, even if it means giving up the flexibility and potentially the income she has today.

“I think being an [adult content] creator is harder than being a doctor,” Reyna said.

“It’s a different type of work, but I think they’re both really hard.” Reyna ( @‌rocketreyna ) says she currently works between 10 and 14 hours a day, juggling content creation, social media, business administration, management and the day-to-day demands of running her online career.

Her workload can include producing dozens of TikTok videos, communicating with assistants and management teams, planning content, organising shoots and spending hours creating paid content.

“Every day is so different,” she said.

“Last week, I had to fly my assistant over because we just had so much to do.” She added: “I would wake up, get ready and then I have to make 20 TikTok videos, and they all have to be new.

Then it’s admin work, checking emails, talking to assistants and management.

"Then planning the content day and actually setting up for each piece of content.” For Reyna, the biggest difference between her current career and medicine isn’t necessarily the workload, it is the lack of stability.

“I don’t think [being a doctor] is going to be more relaxing, but I think it’ll be more stable, which is something I don’t really have right now,” she said.

Reyna says the unpredictability of entrepreneurship has made long-term financial planning particularly difficult.

“We have months where we do really well and months where we don’t do really well,” she explains.

“One of the most frustrating things for me is financial planning because I don’t know how much longer I can do this job for.” “You’re stuck in this phase of being in panic constantly because you’re like, ‘Okay, I don’t know when this money is going to run out.

How can I make sure I have enough to live a stable life?’” That uncertainty has made the prospect of medicine increasingly appealing.

She specifically wants to pursue dermatology, combining her interest in skin with the science and technology that originally attracted her to engineering.

“I’ve always wanted to be a doctor because I really like helping people,” she said.

“I wanted to specifically go into dermatology because I....