I’ve started a new venture!
It’s in content creation, related to my profession, and I’m super excited for the creative portion of it honestly. I’m hoping it becomes an outlet for me in the monotony that is dentistry. Maybe bring a little bit of joy back into what otherwise would just be a long day of work. Don’t get me wrong, I love my profession and I don’t regret it a single day, but it’s exactly as I said, monotonous.
How did this come about?
For one, I’ve always loved taking photos and making fun videos to post on my social media. I run a few social media accounts completely for personal enjoyment and related to many topics. One of the topics I post about is my job as a dental hygienist that I will occasionally post about on tiktok!
One of my college roommates from hygiene school recently started a CE (continuing education) business and reached out to me to ask if I was interested in 1. Beta testing her platform and 2. creating content for her business. This was an enthusiastic “YES” for me. As a dental professional I am always pursuing CE, for both professional enrichment and because it’s a requirement for licensure renewal. Also, I already create content related to my work for fun. Why not make a little money too!
Admittedly, I REALLY fell off creating content related to my profession since moving last October. In a way, I lost a lot of creative freedom (or maybe just freedom in general) when it came to my job. I enjoy my office and my coworkers, but the overall vibe of dentistry is SO different from how it was when I was working in Seattle. Here, I feel like work is just a serious place where you’re hustling from the moment you clock in to the moment you clock out. That’s not to say my work in Seattle was not serious or was not taken seriously, but I went from having an 8 hour work day to a 12 hour work day. The last thing I am thinking about at the beginning or the end of my work day is creating content.
Bottom line, I haven’t posted because I’m exhausted.
This opportunity to not only create content for my own personal enjoyment, but to also create for a business. This has been the first time I’ve felt excited about something related to my work in a long time. Longer than I would like to admit. I wrote another blog post about a job opportunity that I had applied for a few weeks back. That job was something I was extremely excited about. I think not getting hired for that job was a huge hit to both my ego and overall spark I had for my work. When this new opportunity came along, I think it was exactly what I needed to bring myself out of that hole.
I also love that I can do a lot (or all) of my content creation from home. I tell patients regularly that I romanticize the work from home life. Due to the fact that I don’t work in a field that warrants the opportunity to WFH, It’s easy to only see the upsides. Being able to wake up in the morning and not have to get ready OR get in my car to go to work? Beautiful. Amazing. I think this is a fun little way to be able to “work from home” even if it’s just something I am doing infrequently.
I will be posting my experiences with this new venture, the internet’s semi-newest content creator. Stay tuned!
– Hay
