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3 Essential Career Truths No One Will Ever Tell You
No one tells you because no one wants you to know
When I first finished medical school and residency training I thought I was done. I thought I just needed to find a job and plug away for 40 years until retirement. I watched other peers and clueless classmates do the same thing I was doing.
I was also saddled with over $200,000 in medical school loans with no real plan on how to pay them off. Physicians are notorious for being bad with money. I was now in my 30’s and had no knowledge of how the real world worked because I was in school for the past 15 years.
I was the first one in my residency class to sign a contract for a full time job as an attending physician. I look back on those early years and cringe. There was so much I didn’t know about work or a career in general. I wish I had someone guiding me on how to make good career decisions.
After being out in the real world and practicing medicine for a decade, I’ve learned a few things. Actually I’ve learned A LOT of things. Here are three career truths I wish I had known at the beginning of my career. These truths apply to anyone and not just physicians.
