“I just wanted to do something different and do something I felt like I was contributing instead of just waiting on the public in a retail job”
“My childhood pediatrician, who is 90, is still in great shape, got a great mind. He practiced here in Nashville for 50 years. 56 years and he never had one malpractice claim, never one complaint. 56 years. All the way through my [Medical Assisting Associate's degree] I would call and ask him. He said, ‘One thing you wanna do is when you go to one room and you deal with a patient, you don’t ever want to carry over what happened in one room to the other.’ He said ‘You have to forget that. That’s a mistake physicians and people in general make, they carry something over in one to the next.’”
“This thing here *points to his phone with the Indeed app open* wore me out. I had 19 responses to my resume. But it’s pretty good. I’ve got it on the medical, not the hospitality part. I’ve got my medical assisting, internship, all my education and skills, all the way through, all my certifications and licenses. I got the Dean’s List and the President’s List four times. My cumulative GPA was 3.55. My last degree was in ‘85. So thirty-plus years [before going back to school]. They used to take a certificate, now they almost all want the degree. It was definitely worth it.”
