I have been struggling to decide what to write about for the past few months. Since I have started a new job about a month ago, I have been reflecting on my career journey over the past few years.

As I often tell people, my uni experience is a long story. So as per usual, I will summarise the particular events of five years ago. I was suddenly told on a placement that I was off my course after being told that I wasn’t good enough to work in healthcare and I wasn’t given much guidance or options on what to do next. It was quite a surreal experience and there was a mixture of emotions and thoughts that were hard to fully comprehend.

However, one of the prominent thoughts from that time was not being able to see myself working as anything else apart from a healthcare professional. As most of you will know, I stuck to my guns with that and I am back working in the NHS.

On recent reflection, I realise how brave I have been in doing that and not allowing other people’s opinions to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. That being said, I still live in some fear that a similar setback could happen again when I face situations that remind me of past experiences. It has only been in the last few weeks, just under five years later, that I have started to feel more ready to seriously consider what I am capable of within healthcare and what I would like to achieve in life. Partly due to the fear before of it not working out again and still having doubts that I am capable to achieving them. This isn’t going to be a rushed process but I am interested to see what happens.

However, I can be proud of myself for getting back to a similar level in my career in just under five years and for all the people I have helped to look after up until this point and in the future as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you find it helpful. As always, feel free to get in touch with any questions/feedback/comments – I always love to here them. Stay tuned for the next instalment.

Until next time

K