I think it's very interesting that you are, dare I say it, a bit 'bored' with things. I guess I really never thought that a doctor would have that feeling; but now that you mention it, I can see that it could easily happen.
Well, one thing you 'could' do is cut down on your practice just a little bit, and free up some time (say a few hours per week) to investigate other possibilities.
What might be exciting for you? What challenges could you explore in the time available?
Would you want something completely different from medicine? Writing novels? Making independent films? Publishing a book of your original photographs? There *are* things you could work into your current schedule, but it's totally dependent on what kind of challenge appeals to YOU. Only 'you' can decide on that, of course.
If it's not prying, what dramatic change did your friend make? Was he happy with his decision? Is it still working out for him?
Decisions about life changes are scary, and I admire those who make them. I think I am ready to make mine, but I have had to wait for a few pieces of the puzzle to fall into place. I think now is the time for me. Still scary though.
Thanks Carol for your reply.
By boring may be i just over-react yesterday, i was in a little bad mood due to professional problems (the kind of problems that we have to face frequently). I think that there is many aeras in my job, where i can improve my self. By boring i was refering to the lack of big professional projects.
I have a good control of my time in my work : only 40 hours of work per week, but very intense and let's say condensed. It give me time to do others things, like chatting here.
I would like to write a book, but i am a relatively poor writer (if only i worked more my french during my studies), photo book may be a good thing, i could start by a personal web site with my photos. I am still waiting my digital camera (Canon where are you ? )
My friend change his life at the age of 37. Here is short biography : enter in a big busisness school, made his draft dutie as a cooperant in Canada, where he stayed. Became here a high fonctionnarie of the Quebecq governement (oil contracts) then leave it and make his small busisness of translations of busisness contracts (french, english, and spanish : absolutely fluant in all these languages) . Obtain the canada nationality.
For a personal reason ( i do not exactly why) wanted to study medecine. Was not allowed to do it in Canada (if you are not graduate here, it's impossible) and returned in France. Became a plastic surgeon specialised in hand surgery. Now is the chief of plastic surgery in an universitary hospital, and will became a professor.
A good friend of mine's dad was a top hand surgeon in Texas. Decided he couldn't stand it any more, and in his 30's? 40's? Went back to school and became a plastic surgeon.
Then you are a dumbfvck. It's refreshing to see someone who actually enjoys the profession and does it not because they were incapable of doing anything else but rather that they have a talent and the drive to help others. We need more teachers like Carol, not less.
Dear BR -
You are a sweetie. Thank you very much for saying such a nice thing.
Carol you sound like what you need is a "Not A Real Job" job. I got me one of them. The upside is you never wake up in the morning and think "oh damn I've got to go to work" because you're doing something that you're passionate about anyway AND doing it in a way that satisfies you.
The downside is for most folks it means surviving on lower pay. A friend was telling me that a recent study found that 1 in 4 Australians have downscaled their lifestyle since 9/11 for the very sorts of reasons you state in the original post - they've had enough of the new slavery.
Anyway, aside from hanging on to what I've got, I want to buy a few hectares of nice bush, build a house using renewable energy, probably solar. And I want to start what I think of as my own form of tithing - giving my time, energy and skills to those less fortunate, probably some of the local indigenous kids. At my age, I've accepted there's no point waiting for governments to right the world so f**k 'em I'll just do my bit and they can live with their own consciences.
Time to pay the piper.
Hi Chester -
I have always wanted to build my own house. When I lived in New Mexico, I designed (on paper) an adobe house, with the master suite on the second floor. The roof of the lower house would function as a massive upstairs patio/deck for the master suite, with lush plantings of flowering trees and flowering bushes, a cedar hot tub, an outdoor grill and kitchen, a gazebo or ramada-type structure away from the master suite for outdoor meals, a place to write, and to provide views of the surrounding mountains from a different perspective. This would be in the Taos area, of course, which is an art colony type-place; or maybe on a hill near Santa Fe.
Where I live now, I would like to build a mountain cabin (maybe a log cabin) as a retreat from the summer heat in the valley. I've designed that already, too, though not yet on paper. Lots different from the other, but I can see everything about it SO plainly in my mind. It would feature wrap-around windows and wrap-around decks. A romantic sleeping loft with a fireplace and a circular stained-glass window. I can see myself sitting on the covered porch with my laptop, inhaling the rich aroma of sweet, fresh pine, listening to the raindrops of a brief summer shower, writing novels in the open-air as squirrels and hummingbirds partake of treats I have put out for them. Ahhh bliss.
I have designed this cabin so that my brother and I could build it ourselves. I would LOVE to do this. What could be more satisfying than to see a unique dwelling rising up from one's own efforts. Sigh.
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Originally posted by Kickaha
I don't think he *cares* what it was for...
Originally posted by Carol A
Hi Powerdoc -
I think it's very interesting that you are, dare I say it, a bit 'bored' with things. I guess I really never thought that a doctor would have that feeling; but now that you mention it, I can see that it could easily happen.
Well, one thing you 'could' do is cut down on your practice just a little bit, and free up some time (say a few hours per week) to investigate other possibilities.
What might be exciting for you? What challenges could you explore in the time available?
Would you want something completely different from medicine? Writing novels? Making independent films? Publishing a book of your original photographs? There *are* things you could work into your current schedule, but it's totally dependent on what kind of challenge appeals to YOU. Only 'you' can decide on that, of course.
If it's not prying, what dramatic change did your friend make? Was he happy with his decision? Is it still working out for him?
Decisions about life changes are scary, and I admire those who make them. I think I am ready to make mine, but I have had to wait for a few pieces of the puzzle to fall into place. I think now is the time for me. Still scary though.
Thanks Carol for your reply.
By boring may be i just over-react yesterday, i was in a little bad mood due to professional problems (the kind of problems that we have to face frequently). I think that there is many aeras in my job, where i can improve my self. By boring i was refering to the lack of big professional projects.
I have a good control of my time in my work : only 40 hours of work per week, but very intense and let's say condensed. It give me time to do others things, like chatting here.
I would like to write a book, but i am a relatively poor writer (if only i worked more my french during my studies), photo book may be a good thing, i could start by a personal web site with my photos. I am still waiting my digital camera (Canon where are you ? )
My friend change his life at the age of 37. Here is short biography : enter in a big busisness school, made his draft dutie as a cooperant in Canada, where he stayed. Became here a high fonctionnarie of the Quebecq governement (oil contracts) then leave it and make his small busisness of translations of busisness contracts (french, english, and spanish : absolutely fluant in all these languages) . Obtain the canada nationality.
For a personal reason ( i do not exactly why) wanted to study medecine. Was not allowed to do it in Canada (if you are not graduate here, it's impossible) and returned in France. Became a plastic surgeon specialised in hand surgery. Now is the chief of plastic surgery in an universitary hospital, and will became a professor.
A good friend of mine's dad was a top hand surgeon in Texas. Decided he couldn't stand it any more, and in his 30's? 40's? Went back to school and became a plastic surgeon.
And then in his 70's became a lawyer.
You think law school is hard in your 20's? Feh.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
My dad's about to finish his PhD at the age of 69, which is nearly as cool.
In what?
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
My dad's about to finish his PhD at the age of 69, which is nearly as cool.
If I don't hurry, that's how old *I'll* be before I'm done.
Originally posted by BR
Then you are a dumbfvck. It's refreshing to see someone who actually enjoys the profession and does it not because they were incapable of doing anything else but rather that they have a talent and the drive to help others. We need more teachers like Carol, not less.
Dear BR -
You are a sweetie. Thank you very much for saying such a nice thing.
Originally posted by crazychester
Carol you sound like what you need is a "Not A Real Job" job. I got me one of them. The upside is you never wake up in the morning and think "oh damn I've got to go to work" because you're doing something that you're passionate about anyway AND doing it in a way that satisfies you.
The downside is for most folks it means surviving on lower pay. A friend was telling me that a recent study found that 1 in 4 Australians have downscaled their lifestyle since 9/11 for the very sorts of reasons you state in the original post - they've had enough of the new slavery.
Anyway, aside from hanging on to what I've got, I want to buy a few hectares of nice bush, build a house using renewable energy, probably solar. And I want to start what I think of as my own form of tithing - giving my time, energy and skills to those less fortunate, probably some of the local indigenous kids. At my age, I've accepted there's no point waiting for governments to right the world so f**k 'em I'll just do my bit and they can live with their own consciences.
Time to pay the piper.
Hi Chester -
I have always wanted to build my own house. When I lived in New Mexico, I designed (on paper) an adobe house, with the master suite on the second floor. The roof of the lower house would function as a massive upstairs patio/deck for the master suite, with lush plantings of flowering trees and flowering bushes, a cedar hot tub, an outdoor grill and kitchen, a gazebo or ramada-type structure away from the master suite for outdoor meals, a place to write, and to provide views of the surrounding mountains from a different perspective. This would be in the Taos area, of course, which is an art colony type-place; or maybe on a hill near Santa Fe.
Where I live now, I would like to build a mountain cabin (maybe a log cabin) as a retreat from the summer heat in the valley. I've designed that already, too, though not yet on paper. Lots different from the other, but I can see everything about it SO plainly in my mind. It would feature wrap-around windows and wrap-around decks. A romantic sleeping loft with a fireplace and a circular stained-glass window. I can see myself sitting on the covered porch with my laptop, inhaling the rich aroma of sweet, fresh pine, listening to the raindrops of a brief summer shower, writing novels in the open-air as squirrels and hummingbirds partake of treats I have put out for them. Ahhh bliss.
I have designed this cabin so that my brother and I could build it ourselves. I would LOVE to do this. What could be more satisfying than to see a unique dwelling rising up from one's own efforts. Sigh.
Originally posted by Carol A
I owe you a spanking, do I?
Can you remember what it was for?
Originally posted by Kickaha
I don't think he *cares* what it was for...
Ah Kickaha, you weren't supposed to tell! Damn you and your commune!
Carol, please check your PM's.
juss kidin`.... i hate that song so much - i love it. that's how much i hate it - i love it.
but seriously, i want the snow to go away.