Taking Your Career to the Next Level

[drechie]

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That is a good book. I do ponder about it a lot. Good pick.

which book are you referring to?

 

[AD04]

which book are you referring to?

Ecclesiastes. It's not going to help much with your career as the premise is that everything under the sun is meaningless. So instead of focusing on your career (or wisdom or fun or whatever that is transient), it is better to focus on fearing and obeying God.

Short book, but profound. I think about it a lot because in many ways I'm experiencing what the writer experienced.

 

[clausewitz2]

Ecclesiastes. It's not going to help much with your career as the premise is that everything under the sun is meaningless. So instead of focusing on your career (or wisdom or fun or whatever that is transient), it is better to focus on fearing and obeying God.

Short book, but profound. I think about it a lot because in many ways I'm experiencing what the writer experienced.

I don't know that's a fair summary, a major theme is 'take joy in your work and toil doing something you care about because everything else is vanity and doesn't really matter'.

The '...also fear God!' bits are very clearly later awkward additions by subsequent authors uncomfortable with the message.

 

[AD04]

I don't know that's a fair summary, a major theme is 'take joy in your work and toil doing something you care about because everything else is vanity and doesn't really matter'.

The '...also fear God!' bits are very clearly later awkward additions by subsequent authors uncomfortable with the message.

We're total opposites. We read the same things and come up with different conclusions. I still think I'm right though, from the very first post to now. 😉

 

[clausewitz2]

We're total opposites. We read the same things and come up with different conclusions. I still think I'm right though, from the very first post to now. 😉

'There is nothing better for a person to do but eat, drink and find their satisfaction in their own toil' seems pretty clear the many times it is explicitly repeated, but sure

 

[robellis]

Hahah this thread is so passive aggressive I love it

 

[AD04]

'There is nothing better for a person to do but eat, drink and find their satisfaction in their own toil' seems pretty clear the many times it is explicitly repeated, but sure

Bible Gateway passage: Ecclesiastes 2:17-26 - New International Version

Toil Is Meaningless - So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether that...

www.biblegateway.com

I linked the paragraph where your quote came from. People can read that and determine for themselves.

By the way, any update on your private practice?

 

[clausewitz2]

Bible Gateway passage: Ecclesiastes 2:17-26 - New International Version

Toil Is Meaningless - So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether that...

www.biblegateway.com

I linked the paragraph where your quote came from. People can read that and determine for themselves.

By the way, any update on your private practice?

It or a close paraphrase occurs in at least 10-12 other places in that book. I don't know how it could be a clearer theme.

Yes, actually. Three days a week are totally full now and i officially stopped taking new patients a month ago (i make some exceptions for folks in the biz - residents, physicians, therapists etc). Perhaps 28 clinical encounters in the last week (i had some other obligations so a light week) came out to ~$4500 net for me. A more typical week i aim for more like 35 encounters over those three days. Plus an IME that better me $2500 made and income from other gigs made it a very good week. One of those gigs I plan to drop in August and I may just not work more than 4 days a week going forward.

 

[Mass Effect]

It or a close paraphrase occurs in at least 10-12 other places in that book. I don't know how it could be a clearer theme.

Yes, actually. Three days a week are totally full now and i officially stopped taking new patients a month ago (i make some exceptions for folks in the biz - residents, physicians, therapists etc). Perhaps 28 clinical encounters in the last week (i had some other obligations so a light week) came out to ~$4500 net for me. A more typical week i aim for more like 35 encounters over those three days. Plus an IME that better me $2500 made and income from other gigs made it a very good week. One of those gigs I plan to drop in August and I may just not work more than 4 days a week going forward.

How did you get your name out there to do IMEs? I've started doing these, but only have done a couple so far.

 

[clausewitz2]

How did you get your name out there to do IMEs? I've started doing these, but only have done a couple so far.

I actually have no idea. I started getting totally unsolicited calls once I had a whisper of an internet presence. Not like I was deluged with them or anything but I wasn't even advertising i did them on my online profiles.

 

[AD04]

It or a close paraphrase occurs in at least 10-12 other places in that book. I don't know how it could be a clearer theme.

Yes, actually. Three days a week are totally full now and i officially stopped taking new patients a month ago (i make some exceptions for folks in the biz - residents, physicians, therapists etc). Perhaps 28 clinical encounters in the last week (i had some other obligations so a light week) came out to ~$4500 net for me. A more typical week i aim for more like 35 encounters over those three days. Plus an IME that better me $2500 made and income from other gigs made it a very good week. One of those gigs I plan to drop in August and I may just not work more than 4 days a week going forward.

It seems like you filled up fast. Good deal.

 

[psyguru]

Have you considered non-clinical work? Examples include forensic expert witness work and research. They would require some fluidity or at a minimum, some expansion of your knowledge base.

 

[psyguru]

It or a close paraphrase occurs in at least 10-12 other places in that book. I don't know how it could be a clearer theme.

Yes, actually. Three days a week are totally full now and i officially stopped taking new patients a month ago (i make some exceptions for folks in the biz - residents, physicians, therapists etc). Perhaps 28 clinical encounters in the last week (i had some other obligations so a light week) came out to ~$4500 net for me. A more typical week i aim for more like 35 encounters over those three days. Plus an IME that better me $2500 made and income from other gigs made it a very good week. One of those gigs I plan to drop in August and I may just not work more than 4 days a week going forward.

What kind of IMEs do you do for $2500? You could be undercharging (perhaps going through a middle man?) Feel free to PM me.