My new job is excellent. The work is much more interesting compared to my old job, and the people (in general) are much much nicer! The hours are fantastic, generally 9 to 5, and the others in my team have told me that the stress levels are really low. No regular deadlines, however there may be the odd day each week where a few things need to get done, but in general, work is pretty laidback.
My dilemma now is - do I really want to leave this to pursue an entirely new career?? A career that is much more stressful, with much longer hours, and one that will take many more years to specialise??
I know people go in to medicine for a myriad of different reasons, one of which is being unhappy and unfulfilled in their current career. But for the most part, this doesn't apply for me. Most of the time I enjoy what I do, and it's only when I start getting down, when I start looking for 'meaning' in my work, is when I start to think about going down a different career path like medicine, where I am almost positive that I will find this.
I think I'm going to continue reading as much as I can about medicine as a career, reading med students' and doctors' blogs, as well as blogs like Hoover's medschoolhell :) and do as much soul-searching as I can over the next few months.
If I do land an interview this year (which I'm highly doubting at the moment, but who knows with this whole process), I'm going to continue with it. I have nothing to lose. :)
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