I’ve been writing about doing less, being more, for over a decade. I was steeped in the healthcare world, working three or four different gigs, weekends, nights, learning as much as I could. That lasted about a year. When I realized that though I loved what I did, my whole life was consumed by work and that didn’t align to a life well-lived for me. I wanted flexibility and time abundance, not the status quo. Most of my life has been in rebellion of the norm, so I thought about what could change.
I looked back to years of work before I became a PA. Three twelves, four days off was my first real job out in college. This primed me to accept a very different schedule than the rest of the world and I was eager to discover that again. I found a job in a rural clinic that offered this and more. Four days off most weeks and I could stack our schedule for five off. Sometimes we would play with our schedules between colleagues to have two weeks off without having to take PTO.
This taught me to live the law of least effort. And also the principle of ‘relax into riches’ (my next book) as I made plenty of cash while working less. I bought a house, paid off $100K in student debt and traveled extensively within my first eight years of practice.
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