Redefining Progress and Success

• I’m back at work for three more weeks before three months in the Philippines/Indonesia 👀👌🏻 Can’t believe I was in Thailand a month ago. I got into a discussion today about careers and life - I was asked “But do you regret not progressing over the last 3-4 years...”. It’s funny how society brain wash us into what is classed as “success” and what is seen as “progressing” in life. It’s this BS check list of “life goals” - get a good job, get married, have babies, buy a house, repeat the same cycle of work with an occasional week of freedom here and there... • • I know people who have ticked off all of those points, and they are seen as having their life together, they are deemed successful. I am currently back working at a hospital I also worked at 3 years ago - in the three years I was away nothing has changed. There are people there who have done the same thing, day in day out for that entire time. The same woman came to assess my clinical skills, the same woman made my ID badge, the same woman is organising the rota, the same consultants are doing the same ward rounds on the same wards, with the same nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists.... genuinely nothing has changed in 3 years. People say they would be too anxious doing what I do, but for me the thought of doing the exact same thing for the next 20 years terrifies me... and that’s why I do what I do. Progress doesn’t have to mean the same thing for everyone. If I can see the world over the next 10 years, start bizarre businesses, succeed in some things, fail in others, experience working in Medicine all around the world, learn different languages, experience new cultures, meet great people - then I’m happy to say I’m successful and progressing - even if I am still “only” a surgical SHO 🤷🏼‍♀️ • • • #deepshit #phuket #thailand_ig #thailand🇹🇭