The Beginning

This blog will primarily serve to keep my friends and family updated on my progress and whereabouts and secondarily to inform any other Physical Therapists or PT students about this somewhat unknown career path.  I hope you enjoy.

After a year and a half (2 jobs) of working in NYC and not feeling satisfied in the level of respect or compensation I was receiving, I have decided to pursue one of my original post-graduation plans.  A little background first...


At job # 1 I felt I was under appreciated, under respected, under paid and most times felt like a number to a (relatively) large corporation.  Come to find out a little over a year after working there that not only are they lining the pockets of a few doctors but committing fraud on so many other levels at the same time.  An attempt at getting myself out of there and granting the courtesy of a 3 week notice of resignation only led to them kicking me out that same day.

At job # 2 I felt like I was constantly on a sinking ship. A ship that was obviously going to sink soon and fast but the Captain of the ship was oblivious to this and sold cruise tickets very well.  The prospects of having 3 clinics turned into only keeping 2 and now probably only 1 because Mr Captain is still in denial that his marketing plan cant stand up to a saturated NYC market. Four and a half months later I found myself in a bagel shop standing by a garbage can listening to him tell me that he can no longer afford to pay me; that by paying me he has been unable to himself; that he will be closing the clinic I was running, and no longer pursuing the 3rd which was the primary reason for me coming on with him in the first place.  He left me standing there, speechless, as he left to go treat the rest of MY PATIENTS.

Sorry if this is starting to feel like a rant...

That was the straw that broke this camel's back.  I finally had a reason to try out this travel PT thing that I had been looking into for 2 years.  I was always hesitant for 2 reasons: 1. That wherever I end up ["bumble-fuck Montana"] I will fall in love with it and want to stay there and never come back to NYC and 2. That I really love this city and the amazing friends I have made here, and opportunities I have had here that I probably would not and could not have had anywhere else.  I now find these two reasons being trumped by my Columbia sized debt and my curiosity for travel.

I have decided that I will leave this amazing city for a year or two, come back with a dent in my debt and, hopefully, enough money to live here the way I want to live here and possibly start my own clinic.