“don’t wanna leave clinical completely yet but am deffs over it 5 days a week” - anon
In 2021 I was still working full time in ED when I started helping out at Buzzy, my partner’s edtech startup. It fitted into the time outside work that if I was honest with myself was just being spent doom scrolling or binge watching shows on Netflix.
I built self-serve resources (kind of like patient handouts) for the teachers running Buzzy’s school holiday camps, and in six weeks the support requests per student more than halved, from 0.53 to 0.24.
When I went on to interview at Startmate, that reduction in support requests was a powerful real number that proved my 14+ years of physio = transferable skills cos what I did that changed how the business ran.
So start with your network: who do you know running a business or a project that could use you for a few hours a week? (maybe it’s the clinic you’re already working in?). If nothing turns up there, volunteering is another way in.
Next: what to do with the non-clinical work once it’s on your CV.
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