Glad you have power! We are also in a hurricane favorited area of the Gulf, and just got our generator installed WHICH MEANS no hurricanes in our area for the rest of the year probs. Our area was hard hit over the summer with one. They suck.
It's going to be devastating. So many of my friends have already lost most of/everything in their homes to Helene, and were already looking at months+ of restoration for their houses. If Milton ends up as bad as it currently seems like it will be, the area will never be the same.
I'm originally from Southern California and went through several major fires. I remember how terrible they could be. This is an entirely different level. Stay safe everyone. I'll keep our Florida SDNs in my thoughts.
Fires are terrifying!! I have not been through one of those (knock on wood). Several less scary hurricanes, and one bad one, growing up in Florida. Got hit by a tornado and a major hailstorm in Michigan as well. We were lucky that we only had a few brushes with storms when we were in Tampa for a few years. Having a bit of survivor's guilt over this. You want to help and give others a place to evac to, or just do something for your friends, but being 1000 miles north isn't all that helpful.
Thank you! It’s rough out here. No gas or water to be seen hahah
I did and it was a mistake. I waited until after 1 year. I should have left no later than 6 months.
The only thing keeping me here is my apartment lease 😭 & the fear of trying to find a new job and them being like "why were you only there for X time" and having to answer that Q
I get that it’s uncomfortable to answer that kind of stuff, but really as a new grad you have a lot more “excuse”. (Not that one needs an excuse) What you think you want and need as a student may not be what you actually need in reality, and you just don’t know it. You had priorities then, but they may be different now. Plus you have never looked for a job (a job like this anyway), so you may have missed red flags along the way. Ten or more years out it’s a little harder to claim naivety like that, though surprises can always pop up. For what it’s worth, I had several classmates leave their first jobs before a year. All found other employment and are still in the field today, nearly ten years after graduation. None I’ve talked to about it regretted leaving. Most people aren’t going to stay at their first job forever. Some do, most don’t.
I was at my first job for 4 months. If it’s not the right place and you’re miserable, please leave. I’m so, so much happier at my second job and have been here 1.5 years. First job was too big of a clinic and too busy and chaotic. I needed a smaller clinic and now I’m one of 3 doctors instead of one of 8.
I think the stat I read is that 60% of people leave their first job within 1.5 years. And on VIN, I see frequently that older doctors that are managing or owning know this and ask either how to keep new grads long term or why are they leaving. I didn't have an issue answering that question when I was looking.
Besides my intern year, I should have left my first 'real' job sooner than I did. I have left one job after 8 months - it was uncomfortable and I felt all types of terrible, but I was so unhappy.
I left after like 5 months. I should have left after the first month. It got to the point where my now-hubby said that if I didn’t put in my notice he would, and that he would support me even if I was unemployed for the next year (the job market was real bad). I had just graduated and I was doing ER receiving, major surgeries, and taking care of inpatients by myself. There was one night I had 17 inpatients……. There were just 4 doctors covering 24/7 ER in addition to a separate gp shift during the day Mon-Fri. You do the math. I lived there day and night. My one day off was just spent sleeping. My schedule was so erratic that I couldn’t plan anything. No set schedule. I literally got October’s schedule on Sep 29. So if I needed to go to a wedding, I needed to use vacation days to do so… even if I worked so many days in a row that should have just counted as a weekend. And I only had 10 vacation days. This wouldn’t fly nowadays… but there were a lot of new grad mills like this everywhere. And get this… my salary was $65k. No production. I had days where I contemplated crashing my car on the way to work so I wouldn’t have to go in for a while. I often stopped in the Walmart parking lot to nap for a couple of hours on my way home because I truly was so sleepy I couldn’t make it home.
Well I mean I guess you could have cheerfully told them the dog would die as if not to scare them! Sorry… people are so dumb.
This is exactly where I was in the depths of my ER job. Few people outside of the medical field (vet or human) would understand this sentence. I'm glad you moved on to greener pastures.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry! 🙁 <3 I hope she comes home.
I found her while surveying the woods near my house! She's dirty as heck but unharmed, has chomped all the tuna. ❤️
YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!! 🎉🎉❤️
This made my day, honestly. A lost pet is my worst nightmare, I can't imagine what you were feeling!
Update: got orders. Got denied for initial preauthorization as "medically unnecessary " and sent back to Dr for peer to peer review and is not yet officially denied. The f**k? I pay my premiums and out of pocket expenses. You are not involved in my care. Give me my mri so I can move on in life.
Just read an article posted in SPF how there's this behind the scenes aspect of human medicine authorizations where there's review companies that can be contracted and get bonuses based on how many denials they push through the system.
I went through something similar earlier this year, but for my mental health. It messed up my care so badly. Thankfully I got what I needed, but it was not great in the thick of it. Thankfully, for mental health at least, Illinois has a bunch of changes going into affect around that. Prior auths are gone after January 1, 2025 (made up science fiction year btw) for mental Healthcare in Illinois.
OMG same. Literally going to make a plan for that day. Hubs may also be at a conference (he still doesn't know somehow), which would not be fun.
Sometimes that's all you need!
Depends on the circumstances. I gave 4 weeks (which I gave 2 weeks after I'd come back from maternity leave). But I had a good relationship overall with the clinic. For those without a contract and without a good relationship, it's up to you.
Sort of depends on your contract, how miserable you are, and how much of a bridge you want to burn.
Thank you. I mostly ask because I don't have a contract (when I asked for one it was met with "kids these days all want contracts 🙄 they're not worth the paper they're written on!") so I'm trying to think about what a timeline would be where I could tell a potential new job that I could start.
Just quoting this in case others find this post in the future; not trying to rub salt in the wound in any way.
Oh no, you don't have to tell me twice! There were several red flags from the start but I was hoping that the good aspects would outweigh the bad, and if they didn't then I'd leave. I spent 2 x 2 weeks here during school so I mostly knew what I was getting into. My school didn't give us a lot of externship time in 4th year (we got 1-2) so I didn't have the opportunity to travel to many practices to see what else is out there. I also don't have a "home" to go back to (family all moved out of state when I was in undergrad and I'm flying solo) so I decided to stay somewhere close bc at least if it sucked I didn't move across the country. This was entirely predictable!
Do you have another job lined up?
I have a lead! Another practice I've spent a month at, they just didn't need another LA doctor when I was looking for a job. I know it would be a much better situation overall and I have a classmate there too and she loves her job. But I am otherwise actively checking AABP/AASRP listings, etc.
Given that you want to keep a cordial relationship with your boss, it might be a good idea to just wait to put in your notice until you’ve signed with the other place and give a month’s notice.
I was hired to do 100% LA and I did say I'd be willing to do some small when things are slow. It's not slow because he's doing all of the appointments, he is of retirement age and he's trying to scale back and give me most of the appointments as it is. Doing the SA work isn't why I want to leave, it's the Dr. Pol level medicine, the mentality of "well technically you're always on-call" (no I absolutely am not), him being rude/condescending to the staff and to me, staff turnover, etc etc. He and I are the Drs doing LA and I told him when I agreed to take the job that I'm not willing to do 50% on-call long-term/beyond a year so he needs to hire more Drs, but seeing how slow it is, I know there isn't enough work for a 3rd or 4th LA doctor to come on and share the call burden, plus, he hasn't even started to advertise.
Well I guess that makes it easy then. Doing a high percentage small animal while taking 50% call is like the worst of both worlds…
