Attended a course today...
and the trainer mentioned that in recent years,
there were many mid-career shifts into healthcare..

lawyers...teachers...accountants...
they all heard a calling...
apparently Healthcare decided to call on alot of people recently...
and many of them picked up the "phone" and answered 'OK'

i wonder when did i hear my calling?
was it subconsciously when my granduncle suffered a stroke?
(i was so young, i can't remember when that was...)
was it in J1 when i had a few days attachment at NUH Diagnostic Radiology department?
(yet being a radiographer never appealed to me...)

i cannot remember...
just like how i cannot answer the famous question
"Why did you choose to become a physio?"

*awkward silence*

i don't i ever received a call from Healthcare...
i just kinda drifted onto this path...*shrug*

some has asked me
"Why you never become doctor?" (usually followed after i told them i was from Hwa Chong)
i answer "Cos i can't handle the stress that someone's life is in my hand and i only have seconds to decide what drug to give...or not to give"
[in hindsight, i am glad i am not a doctor..because, well..let's just say i don't think too highly of them nowadays...]

some has asked me
"Have you ever thought of doing something else?" (very common recently since my wrist op)
i answer "yeah...but nothing that I want to do more"

and i have asked myself
"What if my PT clinical path has ended on 18 Aug 2009 (day of my wrist op)?"

*awkward silence**heavy sigh*

anyway....
what i did want to say is...
i admire those mid-career shift people..
because they took the plunge, pay-cut etc...
and enter into the world of blood, PU, BO etc...
i think it's very brave of them...

should i decide to move onto something else..
it's kind of a mid-career shift for me too (not so much mid..but almost just the beginning...)
and i admit..i have no such courage to plunge myself into, say...the world of ugly wigs and acidic words (i.e. lawyer =P)
[ps: MJ, if you are frowning and protesting loudly to the stereotype, and yes, I know no more wigs and not all lawyers spit acid when they talk...but TOO BAD!*pffffft*]

i once wonder..
if i hone up on my photography skills,, maybe i can become a travelling journalist...
and i did jokingly said that the day i buy a SLR is the day I am changing career =P

it remains a dream...

of course..
there is the other dream..
the 开民宿-民歌餐厅 dream...but that one, i have to wait for my 'business partners' to be ready

and so...
i continue to wait for a calling from somewhere...

*more awkward silence*

but i do wonder...
all these mid-career-shift-into-healthcare people...have they ever regretted?
like in the midst of cleaning a patient's buttock...or struggling to transfer a patient..
do they think back to those 'high pay, less s***' days....?
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during the course today, there were discussion about how some of these mid-career people can't adapt or fit into the Healthcare setting well...

a question was raised "why did they answer the calling but yet not suitable?"

i turned to my colleague and said:"maybe it was wrong number..."

*kua kua kua*