u/posseltsenvel0pe

Been working office 2 years as associate

I am solo doc, 35% production

1099

4/5 days a week

Production like 1.2 mil a year

Overall things good. However, could be gooder. As I'm trying to ravish my student loans with the intensity of one thousand suns.

Is asking for a raise reasonable?

Even like 36/36%

I understand I'm at high end however I'm also 1099 and I feel I bring a lot to the office. I'm totally drama free make things easy for owner so much so that it's on autopilot pretty much for him.

Thoughts?

At this point I feel like it was a dream. Does anyone have any pictures of the inside? I need the nostalgia hit and mMorgans existed pre internet era. I know photos must be somewhere out there in the wild help!

Thought the edit of my custom crown might be appreciated here

Today I overheard staff talking at the front desk thinking I had already left:

“Dr. X is taking another week off? Didn’t he just take one?”

I joked back from the hallway, “Work hard play hard, right?” and everyone laughed awkwardly. One of them apologized after and honestly it wasn’t even a big deal.

But it stuck with me longer than I expected.

What bothered me wasn’t really the comment itself. It was the weird guilt that crept in afterward for taking time off and actually living my life outside of work.

I think a lot of us in healthcare slowly absorb this idea that we should always be available, always grinding, always “committed.” And if you step away too often, people start noticing.

The strange thing is that the older I get, the more I realize work is important — but it’s not the actual substance of life. It supports life. The people you love, the places you go, the mornings you remember, the hobbies that make you feel like yourself again.

I care about my patients and respect my team a lot. But I also never want to reach a point where my entire identity only exists inside the walls of an office.

Maybe that’s burnout. Maybe it’s growing up. Maybe it’s perspective.

Crown prep #2 or #15 only for the rest of your life, assume you are right handed, which is easier and why?