Twenty years in emergency medicine and helicopter flight medicine. Nights, trauma, the whole thing. Then telemedicine, which I told myself was a bridge and was actually a holding pattern.
Rebuilding: an income that doesn't require me to be physically present at a specific hour to exist. Consultant work, courses, this room, writing.
Blocking it: my telemedicine group just cut compensation, and I have not sat down and run the actual arithmetic on how many shifts it now takes to cover the gap. I have built landing pages, a podcast rebrand, and three courses instead. I know exactly what that is. I teach the pattern, and I am still running it.
That's my three. Post yours.