A working progress 27-year old with a huge curiosity for life.
How do I know if being a doctor is right for me? What if I make the wrong career decision? How will I know? Feeling worried about our career choices is totally valid. After all, we spend about 80,000 hours just on our career alone: that’s 40 hours a week, 50 weeks per year, […]
Are you considering quitting your job? It could be for multiple reasons: You might be interested to explore another industry. Or you may feel unsatisfied with your current role. Or maybe you’re eager for a new challenge. Or you just want to do something of your own for a change. Whatever the case may […]
Quitting your job is extremely daunting, and understandably so. You are about to leave the comforts of financial security and future predictability — in pursuit of something unknown. When I was contemplating on whether to quit housemanship in September 2021, I was plagued by anxiety, indecision and fear — fear of future uncertainties, of […]
Being a doctor is perceived as a prestigious and well-respected career. It is the dream of every (or most) parents for their child to become a doctor, and it is the dream of every child to make their parents happy. So when someone decides to leave their medical career, it is almost seen as […]
It’s been almost two years since I left housemanship in December 2021. When my colleagues and family members knew about it, they thought I was crazy: “You’re quitting? Do you realise you’re wasting five years of medical school?!” “You have to be strong, it’s just two years. Housemanship is meant to be […]
Sometimes deep in your heart, you already know the answer. You’re yearning for a life bigger than what you’re currently stuck with. You want more
I used to be worked up on my goals, hustling extra hard, going late nights putting all the hours. I was really laser focus in achieving them. But this year, after all that I’ve gone through in the last few month and last year, I think it’s time for self-care. It’s time to be kinder to myself, and to live a more gentle life.
Instead of listing down a tonne of goals and resolutions to achieve and be obsessed about.
This year, I decided to have only ONE goal.
In my previous blog article, I shared about my thoughts on work and how we are starting to see a shift in the nature of work, from being merely as a means of survival to having a more spiritual meaning. Ever since the pandemic lockdown, many employees have more autonomy over their time to do […]
We have come up with terms such as The Great Resignation, the ‘turnover crisis’, or the YOLO economy to describe this phenomenon of employees leaving their job that has been spreading like wildfire across the globe.
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, in August 2021, the United States met one of the highest rates of employees quitting their job: a whopping 4.3 million.
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