After the years of medical training and working, it has probably been a long time since you have worked close to a 40 hour week.
To quote Rosanne Rosannadanna when you are a practicing physician "It's always something." There are courses to take and other professional requirements, meeting to attend, calls from patients, etc.
I would be concerned going from a high powered time consuming job to nothing would be quite the jolt. Could you really do that? Are you able to fill the many hours you used to work with something that will satisfy your emotional needs?
Would going half time now allow you to develop a life outside of work?
It is great to be needed and to have the skills to save lives, educate patients and medical students and be a highly respected and very important person. I would consider these emotional aspects very carefully.
I know this from watching my engineer DH, he cut down from the middle of the night calls and going in extra days and having a tough time getting out of the workplace to a part time gig and in the beginning had quite a bit of difficulty. He had to re-invent his whole life. He was not interested in volunteering and had some hobbies he thought he always wanted to do that did not pan out. I was very glad for him he still had a job connection as he developed his life. He still is part time and may go on for a long time, he loves his work and gets tremendous satisfaction from it. His personal life continues to develop.
To quote Rosanne Rosannadanna when you are a practicing physician "It's always something." There are courses to take and other professional requirements, meeting to attend, calls from patients, etc.
I would be concerned going from a high powered time consuming job to nothing would be quite the jolt. Could you really do that? Are you able to fill the many hours you used to work with something that will satisfy your emotional needs?
Would going half time now allow you to develop a life outside of work?
It is great to be needed and to have the skills to save lives, educate patients and medical students and be a highly respected and very important person. I would consider these emotional aspects very carefully.
I know this from watching my engineer DH, he cut down from the middle of the night calls and going in extra days and having a tough time getting out of the workplace to a part time gig and in the beginning had quite a bit of difficulty. He had to re-invent his whole life. He was not interested in volunteering and had some hobbies he thought he always wanted to do that did not pan out. I was very glad for him he still had a job connection as he developed his life. He still is part time and may go on for a long time, he loves his work and gets tremendous satisfaction from it. His personal life continues to develop.
