Let me tell you a story, as a healthcare recruiter I have had highs and lows. I make a pretty good living and I play as hard as I work. At one point in my career, I was offered a large sum of money to run a start-up operation for a recruiting company that was an IT recruiting company and they wanted to get into healthcare. I was thinking with dollar $ign$ in my eyes. I was doing pretty well, and lived a happy life, but thought how great it would be to make the kind of money they were offering me.
In taking this new role, I took on a lot more responsibility. I informed my owners of what I would need to make this company a success. They agreed…to a point. As I began to build this new company for them, they began slowly taking away the tools we had earlier agreed that I needed to succeed. It made my job harder and harder, but I strived to move forward. I worked day and night to build this into a strong company and the money seemed great…at first. My wife was wondering why I wasn’t coming home for dinner, I stopped going to the gym and I was suffering from sleep deprivation. These were sacrifices I felt were necessary for my greater good and I was willing to make them.
I began to build and place PT, OT, SLP and RN travelers throughout a major city in the South. My owners were happy and thought of more and more expansion. Again, my hours increased and my home life suffered, but still I worked harder.
On my six month anniversay of opening this new division of our company, we turn our first profit. My owners, while saying they were happy with our progress wanted much more. I was very happy and proud of myself and my staff, but knew deep down that something was missing.
