No, I didn't quit my job. I am, however, traveling again to hospitals and doing performance improvement consulting. So, the experience is necessarily like starting a completely new profession.
To put it succinctly, I love it. This is really the first time that I have ever felt challenged by (or even interested in) my work. My managers (I'm still figuring out why) give me a ton of responsibility and want to teach me something new at every given turn. I love it, love it, love it.
I never considered myself a datahead. Dataheads are geeky, snarky, socially awkward...right? Wrong. The dataheads in this particular area of my company are some of the most fun people you'll ever come to know. Shocking but true. They're really good at what they do, and also very entertaining. Where was I? Oh, yea, I'm no datahead. In fact, just the opposite. If I could find a profession that allows me to talk to people all day long, well, I'd be the best...whatever that profession is...you could possibly be. This current position is something else. Your best friend is a laptop, so you better snuggle down with that hard drive and get nice and acquainted. Formulas are your language of love and spreadsheets the fruit of your, um, er, nevermind. So anyway, I get to talk with the client every day, but in theory I could accomplish my whole tasklist using e-mail, Access and Excel.
My teammates and managers are all older than me: married, grown kids, graduate-degree-and-tons-of-healthcare-experience types, but they keep me in stitches. Who knew an ER doctor accidentally leaving a sponge inside the patient could be hilarious? Aw, come on: a little toxic shock never hurt anybody...except the patient. A sense of humor is a must in this biznass.
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