07/23/2025
What have I learned from quitting medicine, a career that I worked eight years to obtain?
Aside from the obvious—like, maybe don't dedicate eight years to something you don't wanna do—I've finally grasped something: 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙮.
For years, I wanted to quit my job, and I wanted a new job. But, to able to quit my job, I thought I needed the perfect new job. I sought my answers from inside of certainty.
When the time came to quit medicine because I couldn't work another day in a field that wasn't who I was, I quit without a plan and without a perfect new job. But slowly, a path emerged, answers appeared, and I followed them into my new job, where I write and refinish furniture.
Never, in all of my days of searching for a new job while I was a doctor, did I envision what I'm doing now. I had to live it... to find it.
To quit your job, you don't need a perfect job. You need uncertainty.
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