As you can see from the title, yes - I can finally say that I have gotten myself into what they called the 'working life' (where everyone will start saying 'bye bye social life!').
A big step - my first full time job (ever!) after being in numerous part time jobs for years..
Well, it's been a year now and here I am, planning to tell you how it has been so far.
Before landed into this job, I had "zero experience" + 1 week of placement at a nursing home at Australia - which made it hard for me to even get a job related to my major because all required at least 2 years of experience. However, I worked so hard on those resume and just kept sending over 50 or 100 (?) resume and finally landed into my first job (like, hello!).
I would say, everything was a first time for me - having to work closely with Doctors, Nurses or even Allied Health Professionals, being able to communicate with patients one-to-one, getting compliments from patients - definitely one of the highlights. Amazing, isn't it?
Of course, not going to lie that the first 3 months was really an exhausting period as they tried to squeeze with a whole lot of knowledge into you - expecting that you remembered everything after. Once you get the hang of it, it will be all on you. At first, even though it was an office hours based and 5.5 days of working days, I guess my body took a toll on me - didn't have the time to socialise and even sleeping super early.
Now - it's been a year + in this healthcare industry and yes, I still do get excited going to work because why? (I can really imagine all your faces telling me "you've got to be kidding me?!" ㅋㅋ)
First - I work in a team of 6 (4 Doctors and 1 Nurse) and they've been very good to me and well, despite me being new in the team, they have been really nice and giving me a lot of advices and the best part is, our teamwork is so good though (just had to say that ㅎㅎ). Other than that, I do talk to the other ancillary staffs or even cleaners at the hospital at times too (I do think that they really think of me as "the girl that always say good morning and good bye to them every morning and going back home")
Second - I really thought it would be stagnant job but there will be a lot of trainings and courses for me to look forward for! FYI, I have just finished a 5-day intensive "basic" Conversational Mandarin course and thanks to that, I have been trying my best to make use of it to converse with my Mandarin speaking patients in a way that there won't be any misunderstanding and making them feel comfortable to talk.
Last - Since my major is under Public Health Science, my work scope is more of a part of my major, mainly looking at one's socioeconomic factors which is more of patient-focused in a sense. I do think this job really expands my knowledge a whole lot of it instead of just following by the textbooks - that's why I guess people says experience is a key for everything huh.
P/S: COVID strikes again + haze is back so everyone, do take care and be safe. Will definitely update you again soon.
XOXO, Nazurah Aurora [나즈]
