Sunday, April 29, 2012

Professional: Reasons for leaving

Tomorrow, I submit my letter of resignation to my boss.  It'll be the standard letter that I pull from the internet (yay Google) but in order to remember where "I came from" and why I am submitting this, I shall list it out in the ethos:

Why am I leaving?
- the encounter driven systema nd organizational heirarchy are not sustainable.  Something will have to give.
- miss collaboration with other healthcare professionals (colleagues currently work part time and are as busy as me.)
- keep closer interaction with an inpatient facility
- closer to family
- lack of autonomy and innovation in the workplace
- young and want the challenge
- closer to a major airport
- Austin is same pretention wrapped in faux openness and the gay scene has been "done"
- waking up every morning frustrated
- there is no cutlture of safety or preventative health
- too much typing resulting in the predecessor to carpal tunnel
- feedback not respected or appreciated

Why leaving will suck:
- my patients
- my co-workers
- limiting acces to kids who need it
- moving and leaving the perfect house and neighborhood
- starting over with a new patient panel
- farther from hometown
- leaving a terrific tennis instructor
- leaving great neighbors
- I had established the competencies of most of my therapists
- established business in Round Rock
- working with J. Beard

But a change can be a very good thing; and I intend to be open to it.

Me: Moving again...

It's been a long time since I've posted anything. 

It's funny how certain things seem important at one time or another but in the end, where you're "supposed" to be is where you often end up.

After working a year in outpatient, I am moving to a different job.  This particular job has been lots of fun and I've come to love and respect my co-workers.  But the brass in charge leave much to be desired.  I truly believe they are good people but I'm shocked at how disrespectful they are towards quality patient care.  I went out of my way to do what I felt was best for my patients and as a reward, was talked down to.

So I shall find something else to do.  Actually, I already know where I'm headed to next and I'm hoping that it'll work out.  That's one of the weird things about leaving a job...the uncertainty.  But Ekhart Tolle's book is extremely helpful in this regard.

I've been blessed beyond belief (I can't say that enough) and I know that this job just wasn't the right fit for me.  Just like I knew that some of the men I've dated are right for me either.  So I put on my "big girl panties" and bit the bullet and enacted a change.  While only time will tell how good of a decision it was, I am willing to throw myself into it full nell and see what happens.

That's it for the time being; I'll try to write more later.