Tuesday musings

I am typing this post as I am flying home from a long meeting in Orlando.  Perhaps the meeting itself was not super long (Saturday - Tuesday), but with travel in on Friday, and many hours of travel home (FL to MN to UT) on Tuesday afternoon/evening, I am exhausted.  Additionally, I had a super busy week leading into the conference with packed days Monday - Thursday.....and will return to extremely busy days Wednesday - Saturday (weekend meeting).

So, during this few hours of quiet on the plane (or at least quiet as I can muster over the loud-talker behind me, whose voice I can hear louder than my iPod), I decided to blog for a minute.  As always, I should be working (as never seems to be a minute when I feel "caught up"...actually I have given up believing that state exists), but perhaps a brief pause will help.

As I was participating in the meeting, I found myself thinking about work and professional careers in general.  As a little girl, I knew I wanted to be an educated and competent woman, but never planned to work - I believed I would graduate from the working world long before this age.

Alas, life does not always happen in the linear fashion you plan, and as such, I have found myself immersed in the world of physician education - and within an industry I absolutely love.  And surprisingly to those who knew me in highschool, I am not terrible at it.  Somewhere along the way, it took over and now seems to define who I am and how I think about myself.

As I think about changing that paradigm and considering what I would do if I didn't allow this profession to usurp the majority of my life, passion, and time, I don't know who I would be, as my persona has become part of this whole beautiful mess.  So the enigma is now, could I go back to the other expectation?

Fascinating.