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Lessons from housejob
I’ve finally completed my housejob year. đ„łđ„ł When I left Lagos to Ondo last year, it seemed like a journey so far away but as with everything in life, it all comes to an end at some point. At the start of 2018, I never would have thought that I’d find myself living outside of Lagos for a year. But that’s exactly what happened! And in retrospect, I’m glad that I didn’t accept the offer to move back to LUTH when I got the employment text then. This is not to say I never nursed the idea of staying back, or even wished I could be in Lagos even when…
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Being unapologetic about your growth.
One of the reasons why I decided to finally start this blog is to document and share my experiences going through life, along with lessons learnt from them. I find some sort of release in doing this via writing, hence my preference for Twitter over Instagram on my social media list. The most recent experience I had was deciding to change my work place from a rural area to a more urban centre. This might sound like a no-brainer but it wasn’t exactly that for me. I am one to ponder a lot on things, almost to a detrimental level. I used to worry about this part of me in…
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Post graduation: What now?
This post is about my post-graduation/pre-housejob experience and how I was able to keep myself busy all those long months. I sat for (and passed!) my final professional examinations in medical school in April 2018. As with many other students, both medical and otherwise, it was such a relief to FINALLY be done with school – all the late night reading, exams and waiting anxiously for results to come out. Even though a lot of older colleagues will always say things like âjust the beginningâ, âreading never endsâ and all the other similar stuff, at that moment, it was just enough to know that I was done with that phase…
