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Re: Tell me about the time you made a career change

Oct 4, 2022, 9:28 AM

Coming out of residency I thought I had a job lined up at my hometown hospital. Met with the group a bunch, they were the ones that reached out to me, looking at houses and all that. Thanksgiving of fellowship year all of a sudden they don’t have a space for me. I scramble, look around other spots in the state, land my current job after a pretty short search. Small hospital, growth potential, I can do bariatrics/foregut from day 1 but I’m having to do general surgery call as well which means doing stuff outside of just my subspecialty. It’s a good job, pay is good, people are all nice, but it’s not perfect.

Well the day I signed the contract to come here, hospital 1 calls back and says hey we made a mistake, we want you, come back let’s figure something out. They wanted me to come do just ER/acute care surgery for a few years until they had enough business for me to do bariatrics. I say no. They screwed me once, and the offer they made me was insulting so I say no thanks.

Well, May of this year I’m 8 months in to practice, busy, doing well, hospital 1 calls me again. They say look, we got it worked out, we screwed up, we really want you please come here before we hire someone else, this job should be yours. They offer me more money to come do just my subspecialty, just what I like and I’m good at, at a much bigger and far more prestigious hospital, and no general surgery call at all, period. That eliminates 90% of what makes my job suck. Means having to uproot, leave the house we built, and start over again, but the opportunity for a better job closer to family, the farm, Clemson, etc is one that I just can’t pass up. It’s a no brainer, all my mentors said I have to do it.

I’ll be starting there next summer. Still haven’t told the people here about it, they’re going to crap a brick. Have to give 6 mos notice to get out of my contract.

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long run, but the best one was taking 8 years off to raise my younguns

At the time I was pregnant with my daughter I had a job I loved but working for the worst person ever (he's since been fired for shady ####) who made me miserable. He was some weird fundamental christian religion and had strange views about women in the work place (ie they shouldn't be there).

He did some crappy stuff while I was on maternity leave and made the decision to take time off totally worthwhile. We ended up moving to Florida to be near my family (I swore I'd never do that) and to my small hometown where I never thought I'd find a job in my field. I also swore I'd never work in a large company again because I hate people with the corporate mindset.

Fast forward 8 years and the perfect gig for me literally fell in my lap via an acquaintance who happened to know I had the background I did. I pretty much get to do whatever I want and I'm making twice what I made in the last corporate gig. I found a gig that valued my experience and education and also that I am a mom and active in my community.

The only thing that sucks is that I'm stuck in FL and we'd really like to be back in the Carolinas one day.

Tell me about the time you made a career change

I look for a change in career every day.***

With my job change last year I landed a

not really sure

Get a job that changes every day. Never get in a rut.***

That sounds terrible***

Works for me. I'd be bored out of my mind doing the same

oh it changes daily

I have made 3 career moves and the ALL worked out for the

In my line of work, you're only promoted if you're

If you don't want to climb back down the ladder, you can

Got laid off from a soul-crushing wretch of a company.

I'm kind of the opposite. Give me an easy job

There's a difference between soul-crushing and boring.

That's where I am on one part of my job

Jalepeno farm > Coyote > landscaping > taco truck empire

Re: Jalepeno farm > Coyote > landscaping > taco truck empire

about 11 years ago, I moved from COLA to CLT

Contingency?***

Re: Tell me about the time you made a career change

Two great leaps for APM:

Was working at a national med mal plaintiff's firm...

TIL we got some lawyers up in da Lunge! Now we need guns and

I used to be a high school chemistry teacher, but

The boys in Gastonia said to tell you they miss you!!!***

I did it at the age of 27

Started with Milliken in January 1983.

You probably knew my dad

You never know. I did sell to Milliken in the 90's.

i have never made a career move that wasn't worth it in the

Re: Tell me about the time you made a career change

same field, same type job

Quit my job

I sheetrocked houses for about 15 years.

I started with a small firm in the late 70's and never left

I've been selling pest control for 22 years now

in 2008 the engineering firm i was working for decided i

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