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Category Archives: Career-Life Balance
Reflections on Being a SAHM vs Corporate Mom: Is There a Happy Middle?
Last week, as the kids and I were walking to the Monteverde Library, which is about a 45 minute walk from our house, Tristan, my 7 year-old boy, and I had a good little chat. It went like this: Tristan: … Continue reading
Posted in A Question Worth Answering, Career-Life Balance, Family Life, Reflections
Tagged family, kids, Mother, Redesign, redesign your life, SAHM, WAHM, Work at home parent
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5 Blessings of Going From Breadwinner to Stay-At-Home Mom in Costa Rica
**DISCLAIMER: Please know that I am not advocating that being a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) is more difficult than being a corporate mom or the other way around. By corporate mom I mean a mother who works in a salaried job outside … Continue reading
Posted in A Question Worth Answering, Career-Life Balance, Family Life
Tagged family, Home, kids, Mother, SAHM, Stay at Home Mothers
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5 Challenges of Going From Breadwinner to Stay-At-Home Mom in Costa Rica
**DISCLAIMER: Please know that I am not advocating that being a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) is more difficult than being a corporate mom or the other way around. By corporate mom I mean a mother who works in a salaried job outside … Continue reading
Posted in A Question Worth Answering, Career-Life Balance, Family Life
Tagged family, Home, Mother, SAHM, Stay at Home Mothers
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Ladies: “You can have it all, just not at the same time.”
I have been thinking a lot about motherhood this week. I have also been thinking a lot about my old life where I had a high-profile career and made good money. This is most likely brought on by the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Career-Life Balance, Family Life, Redesigning Your Life
Tagged family, kids, Mother, Redesign, redesign your life
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Redesign Your Life: Making things better at work
As I posted in earlier blogs, up until a few months ago I was on the fast track in a career in academic medicine. I was at a high-point professionally even though I was still relatively early career. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Career-Life Balance
Tagged Career, Employment, Medicine, Redesign, redesign your life
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Eat, Pray, Love….Eat your heart out!
A secret revealed…. I always wanted to be a writer. I was in Writing UIL when I was in middle school and I wrote for the school newspaper…..yes, I was that geeky! I wrote stories when I was a little … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming an Expat, Redesigning Your Life, Writing
Tagged expat, Redesign, redesign your life, writing
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“Do you regret being a doctor?”
And the survey says….. A physician friend of mine recently posted a link on twitter to a national survey by Jackson Healthcare that indicated that 59% of the physicians surveyed were “somewhat unlikely” or “very unlikely” to recommend a young … Continue reading
Posted in Career-Life Balance
Tagged Health care, Medical school, Medicine, money, Physician
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Why We Moved, Part 3: Rediscovering the joy of motherhood
It’s a cruel, cruel summer……(sorry, I just watched the original Karate Kid recently) The summer of 2012 was a difficult one. I was conflicted about what to do with regards to my job. My division chief, a dear friend who … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming an Expat, Career-Life Balance, Family Life, Parenting
Tagged Costa Rica, expat, family, kids, move abroad
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Why We Moved, Part 2: My career bubble burst
Turning crisis into opportunity…. There is a host of personal and professional reasons as to why we uprooted ourselves from our idyllic, suburban, American fairytale life to live in a developing country. Not only that, we moved from one of … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming an Expat, Career-Life Balance
Tagged Costa Rica, expat, family, kids, move abroad, San Antonio, travel
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