Are you Quiet Quitting In OT?
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My name is Hoang. I'm an occupational therapist and certified hand therapist. I've been feeling like I'm talking about this new quote unquote.
New phenomenon of quiet quitting. So if you're here and you're watching, I would love to [00:01:00] hear what do you think about that? Are you quiet? Quitting? Are you quiet? Quitting? What's up with that? Cheers. It's Monday, it's six 30 Eastern standard time and I just thought I'd pop on and say hello. See what's going on with everybody.
It's hasn't rained in the late afternoon. So I thought I'd taken a moment to sit outside cuz it's been really rainy. Yeah, I just wanted to come on and say hello, see what's up with everybody. So I've been hearing about this quiet, quitting, and it just made me think about like my journey.
What was old is new again? what is old is new again? Seriously. As my daughter buys these 80 these nineties types of pants and the crop top was huge back in the day and now things just always come back around. It's yeah, I just wanted to, hear if you're watching this [00:02:00] live, say hello, come on.
Tell me your name and where you're from. And are you quiet, quitting? If you're watching this on replay, I'd love to hear the same thing play along. I think I remember if I'm hearing this correctly, it's just like, when you almost like in a way burn out, just. Form of saying you're burnt out, not really loving your job, but you're still gonna do it.
Cuz let's face it. We all need money. we all need that paycheck, that salary. and it just reminded me of when I was first outta school. I think it happened a couple of times for me. And it corrects me if I'm wrong, if it's happened to this quiet quitting, but I think it was, I was in acute care and I had worked there for a while.
to me, it was like a while, but relatively speaking, it was no time at all, but I was there and I think it was like at the [00:03:00] very beginning. It just like that first year after I learned a lot of stuff, I just started to get really bored. with I guess the kind of patients I was seeing, or maybe the kind of attitudes that I was getting from, like the team members, whether it be, oh, you're just an OT or no PTs can do this better or like the nurses or the doctors, not really appreciating you, that kind of stuff.
And so you start to, in a way. Give up a little bit because, even when I was working in acute care, I was really interested in doing hands and I just didn't see the opportunity so slowly but surely it was losing my way and then something new and interesting would come up and pardon me right up.
So I would love to hear what, this quiet quit. Means for you. And if that's something you're going through I, as I reflect back, I think about it more as a in a way I was bored. So I [00:04:00] wonder, are you bored in your career? Cause what it tells me is not just what it tells me, but what it means to me is when I was quitting, or if you were quite quitting like it hurts you more than it.
Where you're working. So I felt like when I was doing it, it was stemming from something that was happening with me. Like I was bored at the position or I was not getting some kind of feeling like I was progressing. And I think that's so important in our. In our lives as human beings to have a feeling of Hey, we're progressing somewhere.
Hey, we're doing something that provides us. Meaning that gives us energy, that gives us fulfillment. I remember back then it was happening to me and it was most likely because. I was feeling bored. I [00:05:00] was feeling like I wasn't going anywhere in my career. And I would encourage you if you are feeling that way, it never hurts to look around.
It never hurts to put your resume together. I remember I did that. I would put my resume together and I started looking for different positions and I would send out feelers and I would just put it out there and see, let me see what. Could see, and when I would get a call back, I would go and explore the opportunity.
Sometimes exploring the opportunity can give you that little like puff of energy and a, almost like a renewal, because what it helped me realize was. I really did like where I was working at that time, I was working for a big hospital and I was looking at moving from one hospital to another hospital and it made me really analyze what's really actually great about my job.
And it made me want to [00:06:00] stay versus want to leave. Now you might have a different reason why, like I'm ready to go. But at least it gives you an opportunity and at least it. Letting you get out there and do something, which I think sometimes can help. So I'm a big fan of having choices in your career.
I often talk about that a lot. Sometimes if you're looking for new opportunities, just having those choices to say yes or no can sometimes mean a lot so I was offered the position, but I didn't like I didn't like how vague it was in the sense that they couldn't really tell me what they were bringing me in for.
They were like, yeah, let's just play it right here. And I was I have a great job when I thought about it. I was like, I have a really great POS position. I have a great job. I work with good people. Not every day. The best day ever, but in the overall scheme of things, I had really nice position.
I had an opportunity to grow as long as I kept working on myself, working [00:07:00] on my skills and also having a certain amount of patience. And that really helped me. It actually helped me. And that was, it took me, I think another year before I propelled into an outpatient hand therapy position. And I think if I was in a rush and didn't put a lot of thought and intention into.
I might have moved into a position just because I was bored , and once that kind of episode passed and I could look and say, oh, this is a good job. Then I started getting great cases coming through the acute care. So yeah, I just think if you are like, fed up somewhere Think about it.
Oh, thank you. Love your work. Really helps me as an associate. Perfect. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you. So yeah, that's I just was thinking about it all day and I thought, Hey, I'd come out and say, hello, see what you guys are looking for. See what's on your mind. Quiet. Quitting is something that I see, and I don't think it's that different from that whole idea of burnout.
And I think [00:08:00] that one of the. Where we, where these things happen to us is because our expectations are up here and our reality might be down here. So when we have a better match of them we'll be in a better happier content place. But that's my story. And hopefully me sharing my story with you will help you put things in perspective or maybe give you.
That little boost to say, Hey, maybe I will get my resume together. Maybe I will apply for different positions just to say, what if right. The great thing is that you can always say, no, I think that's the greatest thing is if you have a really great job, you can always say no to the new opportunity.
My second came from I wasn't quiet, quitting. I was. I think the universe just knew I was looking, but I was in between actually I was in between quitting the job and just starting my own thing or [00:09:00] just staying in my position and be happy. I had a decision I had a choice to make and all of a sudden I was flooded with opportunities.
Things were shifting in my area, people were moving around and jobs became open positions, became open. And I said, you know what, if I'm gonna move, if I'm gonna move. And if I'm going to make the move to going outta my own, this might be a little bit of a stepping stone for me because when you're really comfortable and you are really happy sometimes, but you're bored.
it that, that position doesn't allow you to take risks because you're just so comfortable, just so happy. Getting myself into an uncomfortable position, like a new position. Really. I knew what I was doing, like from a skill standpoint, I knew how to treat. I knew how to treat like a really good time management.
So I wasn't scared. [00:10:00] The volume. So coming from a I can see eight to 10, 12 at the most in one setting, I went to a setting where I was seeing like 22 patients a day and that didn't really scare me because I was looking for a very particular type of experience and I got it. And it was a thing that propelled me.
To essentially go outta my own and eventually to start hand therapy secrets. Everything is a process. And I think if you take a moment to really think about it and think about what you want it could help you to make the best decisions about what you could do for your career. Cuz quiet, quitting.
Doesn't hurt anyone, but you, if you quit and you quit quietly, you are the you're essentially the only one that suffers you suffer in the lack of growth. You suffer in the lack of progress. You make [00:11:00] decisions that actually don't move you forward. I don't know. That's my take on. Would love to hear if you're watching now, if you're watching back on the replay, I would love to and you could just slide into my demo if you don't wanna say anything publicly that's okay, too.
I'd love to have your take on what that is and of if you're doing it or not doing it I'd just curious because I'm gonna be going to two conferences in. Two months, and I will let you guys know what they are. So maybe we could meet in person. Maybe we can get together and have a drink somewhere maybe we can meet at those conferences.
So yeah. All right. I just wanted to come on and say hi, and also thank you to all the new people follow me here on Instagram. I really appreciate it. I hope to always continually put out content and share my ideas and insights that can help you in your career. And if you wanna watch more long form videos [00:12:00] go check out my YouTube channel hand therapy.
We're putting up videos weekly and hopefully we're gonna start, putting up a few more that can help you. All right. Thank you so much. I will talk to you guys soon. Bye.
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