dental school Archives - Lolabees Career Coaching https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/tag/dental-school/ Getting Real About Your Dental Career Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:12:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-BumbleBee.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 dental school Archives - Lolabees Career Coaching https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/tag/dental-school/ 32 32 141275061 Why Leaving Dentistry Isn’t so Simple https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/why-leaving-dentistry-isnt-simple/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/why-leaving-dentistry-isnt-simple/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7520 In 2018 I wanted to highlight more stories of dentists and hygienists leaving dentistry to create more happiness in their careers. I came up with a series of blog interviews sharing others’ amazing stories, so that you could see that change is possible for all of us. Then it dawned on me that the interviews may have been glossing over the real work involved in career change. I wrote this article to keep it real, as yet another reminder that this process can feel really complicated when you’re going through it. I hope you enjoy. I recently had a conversation […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/why-leaving-dentistry-isnt-simple/feed/ 19 7520 Celebrating New Beginnings: One Dentist’s Career Change into Real Estate https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-change-dentist-real-estate/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-change-dentist-real-estate/#comments Tue, 03 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7376 In 2018 I began connecting with other dental professionals who made career changes after becoming unhappy in their dental careers. I began an interview series I called Celebrating New Beginnings and wanted to showcase real people like you and me who were able to shift. Mark was one of the first dentists I interviewed. As an unhappy dentist, career change became the only option for him. I hope you enjoy Mark’s story and find inspiration in it. This week we showcase a wonderful dentist who went for it! He knew it was time to change when he found himself wishing […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/career-change-dentist-real-estate/feed/ 26 7376 The Pros and Cons of Dentistry https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-dentistry/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-dentistry/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:00:00 +0000 http://lolabees.me/?p=4395 Ever wonder if you should become a dentist? If so, knowing the REAL pros and cons of dentistry is crucial. For years, US News and World Report crowned the dentist as the #1 best job. I first wrote this post in 2013, and being a dentist won that designation for years. In 2018, something changed, and they caught onto what some of us already knew. It slipped to #2 and stayed there, but in 2021, being a dentist slipped all the way down to #9! Maybe they’ve started to see the pros AND the cons of dentistry. What changed? Could […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-dentistry/feed/ 314 4395 The Curse of Being a Perfectionist https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-curse-of-being-a-perfectionist/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-curse-of-being-a-perfectionist/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:23:00 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=8845 “Wow! Being a perfectionist is a curse!” I dramatically said to my patient with a sly smirk on my face. After what felt like an eternity of revisiting the stupid ledge that remained on that damn distal box floor of the MOD prep on #3, I had nearly given up. Fighting the patient’s tongue with my right hand while holding the mirror to barely see around my left hand doing the actual work, my right arm became fatigued. I was caught up in an obsessive pattern of alternating between blindly reaching for that ledge with a quick zip of the […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-curse-of-being-a-perfectionist/feed/ 2 8845 The Importance of Work Life Balance https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-importance-of-work-life-balance/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-importance-of-work-life-balance/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:38:32 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7960 Most of us really value the importance of work life balance. Especially now, it seems to be more important than ever. My guest today is Andrew, a dentist in the UK. Andrew came to a crossroads in his career when he was forced to make a tough decision. He had to choose between continuing on in a very happy, successful dental practice or walking away from that to maintain the most important relationship in his life. See how it turned out for him… Three years ago, I came to a junction in my life where I really struggled. It turned […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-importance-of-work-life-balance/feed/ 1 7960 Celebrating New Beginnings: Dental Hygienist Pioneers New Niche https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/celebrating-new-beginnings-dental-hygienist-pioneers-new-niche/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/celebrating-new-beginnings-dental-hygienist-pioneers-new-niche/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2018 19:03:11 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7925 We can get so caught up thinking we have to fit into this perfect image of how to practice dentistry. That usually means having a busy, successful private practice. By now you know that I love to challenge that idea. So here is my challenging viewpoint: it is possible to be passionate about dentistry outside the Dental Op. My guest today proves it. While Carrie Ibbetson is clearly passionate about life at the dental chair, her true calling within dentistry has pulled her interests in a different direction. Carrie is a dental hygienist with a slightly different mission. Listen to […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/celebrating-new-beginnings-dental-hygienist-pioneers-new-niche/feed/ 0 7925 How Our Beliefs Create Our Reality https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/beliefs-create-reality/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/beliefs-create-reality/#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:16:50 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7864 Did you ever consider that what we perceive to be true might not be reality? Think about it. Take the comment “I hate the dentist.” Some of us shrug it off as if it’s nothing while others get peeved by it. What’s really going on here? Is the patient really being rude? Are they making a joke? Maybe they’re grasping for some compassion? What is the reality? The way we perceive a comment like this does create our reality. It’s normal. It happens because we all see the world through different filters. Our filters determine how we see everything in […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/beliefs-create-reality/feed/ 0 7864 The Real World of Dentistry: Harmful Beliefs that Keep us Stuck https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-real-world-of-dentistry-harmful-beliefs-that-keep-us-stuck/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-real-world-of-dentistry-harmful-beliefs-that-keep-us-stuck/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:16:35 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7782 I bet you’d agree that as dental students, we have no idea what the real world of dentistry is all about. What’s worse is, we think we know. Unfortunately this lack of understanding can set us up for a tough road ahead. The problem is that it limits the possibilities we see for ourselves in our future careers. The prime example is how we, as students, perceive what it takes to succeed in private practice. Who remembers judging our teachers in dental school for being teachers? Collectively we viewed them as dentists who couldn’t hack it in the real world. […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/the-real-world-of-dentistry-harmful-beliefs-that-keep-us-stuck/feed/ 6 7782 Managing Dental Staff: What are you Avoiding? https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/managing-dental-staff-what-are-you-avoiding/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/managing-dental-staff-what-are-you-avoiding/#respond Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:19:36 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7721 I think you’ll agree that many dentists hold on to a difficult employee much longer than we need to. The problem with this is we waste far too much time and resources settling for mediocrity when managing dental staff. In the past I’ve held on to more than one employee out of fear, but now I know we don’t have to settle. We’ve all done that. We’ve all found excuses for why we should keep the wrong person around. The good news is we can learn how to do it better the next time around. How can we make the right […]

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]]> https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/managing-dental-staff-what-are-you-avoiding/feed/ 0 7721 Creating Harmony in Your Life https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/creating-harmony/ https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/creating-harmony/#respond Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:29:31 +0000 https://lolabeescareercoaching.com/?p=7678 Last week we discussed how important it is to change your environment and change yourself from within to create a sustainable shift. After so many years of wondering if I would ever really feel the changes from within, it was refreshing to see there was more to it. Now that I’ve experienced it, I’m convinced that changing both my environment and myself was the key. Let’s fine tune the concept even more: creating harmony with my environment allowed me to make more tangible progress. It’s not just about changing your environment, but it’s about changing your environment so that it […]

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