Had some trouble with our machine at work today, finally the engineer came...fm S'pore...so he's doin his job when out of d blue I have sudden 'inspiration' to ask...
"So you fly in & out of different countries most of the time?"
"Yeah, it can get v tiring, especially since I dont like to travel"
"Ok, I guess that means u fly out for a couple of weeks then head back to home base only for 3 days, that kind of engineer job level?"
"THANK GOD no...I would quit straightaway..family wouldn't be able to take it"
"Hmm..I know a medical engineer who's semi-permanently posted overseas, 6 mths at a time.."
"OMG, hw can the family stand it?"
Basically at this point I realised we in the medical field do sacrifice quite a bit...I mean lets take our resident surgeon, who flies in in the morning, does the surgery & flies out at night or 1st thing the next day back to Singapore to attend to patients there...or our own local doctor who 4 nights out of 7 is on duty, as is his wife...or lets take my own boss who goes home at 7 almost every night, sometimes coming back to work at midnight when there's emergencies, or Sundays..I mean...are we missing something here? Strive to save so many lives, or make others' lives better,neglect our own...for what?Doctors (overseas) with high divorce rates, neglected families...or singles in this field whose time is so sapped up by work that personal & social life becomes stunted (I personally know 1)...I guess that is the price to pay...its like nursing, its a vocation *a job not for the sake of working but for the interest to sacrifice for others* all too often people work for the wrong reasons....maybe a step back for re-evaluation will work wonders....does wonders for professionalism as well within the job...anyway enough ranting & raving....for now...Im off to re-evaluate my life...
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