What's good, everyone. This is Dr. Ney. This is coming out after Thanksgiving, and I hope you all are safe.

Now, on this end, we had a muted Thanksgiving. We kept things really low-key. My dad is in his 80s.

My mom is in her 70s. She recently had a stroke. So we're not trying to take any chances.

So obviously, we made some food here at our place, and then we brought it over to my parents, brought them food and stayed for less than an hour. And even during that time, we had masks on, we washed our hands, we socially distanced. We're just trying to make sure that nobody ends up in icy in December. Catch my drift. So I hope you all are doing the same thing. I hope you all are sacrificing in a similar

way, but still able to communicate with people because that's a normal human thing, is that we

want to be able to communicate, see people, see people's mouth without the mass. But, you know,

unfortunately, we can't do that right now. And we're spiking all over the United States. So it's

really important that we follow the rules

strictly so that December doesn't end up as bad as November. So let me know what y'all think. Let me know

if you are doing the same thing. I'll shout you out on the podcast. Now on to this episode,

we are full swing or even close to getting to the point where residents, chief residents at least,

and fellows should be looking for their first job. Now for me, around this time, I was freaking

out because my other fellows were pretty much signing their contracts for their jobs that

were going to start in July. Me, on the other hand, I was interviewing still, not sure if I wanted

to dedicate literally three or five years to a place based off of a five-hour, six-hour interview.

And it was around this time, maybe a couple months later, I decided to do locums and just forego

taking a job at, you know, such and such academic center. But when I did Locums, it really changed

my mind on a lot of things. It kind of blew my mind, not just giving me the inspiration to start

this podcast, but really I learned a lot about how valuable I am, just with my skills to any

hospital. I also learned how important it is to understand compensation, how that works.

I learned how to say no.

And that no is a sentence, full stop.

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