It’s sort of scary to think that at the age of 37, I’ve never done a formal job search. With the attendance of medical school and graduate school along with the prospect of going to architecture school always present, I’ve just never had the need, for better or for worse, to secure a job. I’ve literally been in school this entire time since graduating from WashU at some minimal capacity. I’m a forever student. In many ways, that’s sort of what I signed up for when I entered medical school. We were told as medical students that we would be “forever students”: always learning something new and applying it for the betterment of our patients. I’m still sort of on that trajectory even though I’ve never obtained the MD. I’m just on my own unique path.
It’s going to be an interesting job search for sure if I have to do it, because I have an interesting story. I wonder if my employers are going to look me up and read some of my blog posts? These posts are filtered and meant to be public, but I can still get blunt in them. There’s a slight chance that my outlook on things may rub some people the wrong way. I don’t know—people seem to be sensitive nowadays. Yet, having a blog is sort of a double-edged sword. In a blog, it’s normal for an individual to be brutally honest; after all, it is your page, and you dictate what to write. Why would you write propaganda or, worse yet, something you don’t care about? Who would spend the time and energy to do that? So, in that sense, it’s very easy to rub another person the wrong way with a blog if that individual actively reads your content.
Nevertheless, a blog is also a positive thing if it is kept regularly because it is a way for a person to practice their writing, which is a very important task. I’ve already established that writing is basically a form of thinking. It is the way that we communicate our thoughts and ideas to the world. If you can’t write well, you really should not have an advanced degree because you’re basically just a technician. I feel like in super technical fields like MRI, there are some people with PhDs who fall into this category, especially in the age of AI.
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