Like most firsts, this one strikes a ‘gan jeong’ note in me too. I ironed my shirt, went to bed early, prayed for God’s guidance, woke up early, etc.
Although I haven’t found a semi permanent job to start in January, I certainly didn’t expect a surprising fast locum job offer. Day #3 after I touched down KK.
I took out my notebook (shamefully called a lil revenue book) which i routinely record my locum jobs, flipped to the next empty page and wrote the date today plus the location. 23 December 2011
Then I flipped a page forward and noticed the last entry was 24 November 2011
Whaaat? My hands stopped earning money for a month flat ?!?! A month already? After 24th Nov, I went to Kuching for Hope Malaysia National Convention, then I spent about a week to settle my Ipoh house and say the goodbyes (poorly), spent few more days at Kampar for LifeGame 2.0, spent a really fruitful and enjoyable week at Penang doing the exact kind of dentistry work i love and gave up. I mean surgery of course. I tagged i-can’t-name-her-in-case-i-get-her-into-legal-trouble for on call, and I caught myself really feeling excited when I saw a deep gruesome laceration wound over the face =.=
There goes my month.
Sigh…
Well, locum at Kota Kinabalu is no different from elsewhere. Private practice IS private practice. You decided the best treatment and render them to these patients who trusted you, and you be responsible for what was done. Only here in KK, I earned twice the money for half the number of patients.
What’s my career plan? I honestly don’t know.
But I have a lil vision. Grace Dental Group. Dad gave the weirdest look, as in why I named it after mom. To me, Grace is more than just that. It gotta start with one Grace Dental Clinic somewhere sometime. I envision it to be larger than.. Tew Dental! Hahaha, look who’s talking. Someone who wasn’t working for the past one month. Laugh with me, Dream with me, Realize it with me.
Sometimes, we need to lose something to find out that we actually love it very much. I hope you will find what you love to do most and move towards what you are made to do. It is a blessing to be able to identify your interest and do it for a living. Not many people have the opportunity to do it.
It’s never too late…if you have the desire.
Congratulation….you already taken your first step in building a successful career in your hometown…..:)