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career transitions are so hard
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especially when to the world you've
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already had the perfect career being a
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doctor is still a highly coveted
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profession it's a lifetime of hard work
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a crown of honor to your friends and
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family so any leap out of that career
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can be very terrifying why simply
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because it seems like anything else you
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do might never be good enough not to
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your friends your family and maybe not
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even to you but I want to challenge you
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to look at a journey ahead with
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excitement because you now have the
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opportunity to carve out who you want to
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become i want you to be intentional
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because career transitions are not just
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about change they're about
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when I left clinical medicine I stepped
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into a world that at the time felt
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unrecognizable actually the transition
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was very humbling my very first role
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included tasks I never imagined myself
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doing professionally now one of those
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tasks even included emptying the garbage
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and not just emptying it I had to
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separate the recyclables before leaving
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for the day now that might seem minor to
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you but even that I needed to learn how
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to do in Guyana recycling isn't widely
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practiced so even something as simple as
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sorting waste became another unexpected
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learning curve but emptying the garbage
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it was a stark contrast to the authority
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and responsibility I once had in
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medicine but you know what i had a few
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things on my side my humility my grit
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and my deepseated belief that this too
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shall pass more importantly I held on to
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a life lesson my beloved grandfather
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instilled in me from a very young age
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rashana how you do anything is how you
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do everything that wisdom which is also
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revealed in one of my favorite
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scriptures Ecclesiastes 9:10 which
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states "Whatever thy hand find it to do
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do it with all thy might." Became my
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guiding principle every single day no
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matter how small or seemingly
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insignificant the task I made a
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conscious effort to do my best to do it
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with all my might not because anyone was
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watching and most certainly not because
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it was glamorous but because the way
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that I showed up for those small moments
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reflected on the person that I was the
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person that I am more than the job
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itself ever could and here's what I've
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learned if we are faithful with the
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little that we're given we will be
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trusted with much more i truly believe
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that the way we handle the smallest
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responsibilities often determines the
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doors that open us for us in the future
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over time my attitude of excellence and
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perseverance made all the difference it
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wasn't long before I moved from that
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humbling start to greater opportunities
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my next step was in pharmic vigilance
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and I worked my way up from a pharmacco
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vigilance associate to a pharmacco
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vigilance analyst until my current
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position where I serve as a manager for
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phicco vigilance and medical information
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this journey has reinforced a powerful
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truth your job title does not define
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your worth but your character will
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always define your success career
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transitions can feel like a loss of
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identity but in reality they are an
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invitation to build a stronger more
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resilient version of yourself and if you
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embrace every step even the
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uncomfortable ones you'll realize that
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nothing is ever wasted it's all part of
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becoming it's a bit paradoxical but the
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career transition wasn't just about my
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career my career transition completely
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reshaped me as a person i've grown
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tremendously not just professionally but
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as a wife as a mother and as an
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individual i've become more resilient
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more adaptable and more confident in my
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ability to redefine success on my own
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terms dr william Bridges a leading
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expert on change describes career
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transitions as a three-stage process
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endings the neutral zone and new
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beginnings the most painful part is the
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ending letting go of what once defined
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you the neutral zone the in between
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period is full of uncertainty and tons
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of discomfort but it is also where the
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most growth happens and finally the new
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beginning emerges where you step into a
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new identity one that reflects your
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evolving skills values and aspirations
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if you are in the messy middle of your
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transition right now I want you to know
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this you are not alone if you feel like
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you've lost your sense of purpose I want
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you to believe that purpose is not tied
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to a single job title your skills your
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ability to think critically to solve
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problems under pressure and navigate
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complex situations are needed beyond the
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walls of a hospital or clinic dr william
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Bridges in his book transitions also
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writes "Transision is not just about
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change but about letting go of the way
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things used to be and reorienting
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towards what's next that doesn't mean
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leaving your skills and talents behind
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it means using them to become even more
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powerful your ability to analyze complex
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problems make critical decisions under
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pressure and communicate effectively
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these are all transferable they are your
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superpowers so let me ask you this what
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if this transition isn't about loss but
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about reinvention what if the same
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discipline and resilience that got you
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through university or your first career
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will now propel you into a new field
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what if this is your chance to redefine
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what success means to you because here's
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something that I know for sure a career
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transition isn't the end no matter what
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career you're coming from it's an
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evolution and you you're just getting
