Millennials are changing the workplace. Love ’em or hate ’em, this is a reality.
And it’s a reality we’ll all have to deal with for the next several years, since the tail end of the Millennial generation is just starting to graduate college, move back in with their parents, and apply to part-time jobs so they can spend 20 hours per week at rallies protesting student loans.
Haha! I’m totally kidding. Sort of.
It seems to me that as soon as we doctors are making any kind of decent money (which is usually immediately after graduating) we start looking for reasons to not do any actual work outside of the office.
Usually the reason given for this attitude is some version of “I can make way more at my job than what the (insert any type of manual laborer or domestic service provider) charges me per hour, so why would I not hire that out?” If we want to throw an extra layer of guilt on for anyone who might object, we say something like: “Well I have to pay someone to clean my house and cook my meals and cut my lawn so I have time to do things with my kids!”
Both of these excuses may have some superficial merit, but neither one holds much water when examined closely. …
If you are lucky enough to find someone out there who is doing what you want to do in your own professional life – congrats! This discovery will be incredibly helpful for you! But before you go dashing out the door to try to imitate someone else or handing them your credit card in exchange for their secret recipe, you need to look critically at their business models and their lives. …
Our guest post today is by my business partner, Dr. Eric Peterson. Dr. P loves his work but loves being outside even more. He spends most of his free time recovering from joint injuries due to ski accidents in the terrain parks and running ultra-marathons all over the world. …
Hi! In case we haven’t met, I’m Dr. Peppers. I’m a distance runner, backpacker, skier, world-traveler, wife, and mom. I’m a Millennial and an extrovert, so I like talking (or writing) to people about pretty much anything. You can learn more about me right here. Through some combination of luck and hard work and thinking outside the proverbial box, I’ve managed to build a life that l absolutely love – and thus I consider myself highly successful despite not being particularly famous or important. …