Live Your Job to the Fullest

Many think that being a hygienist would be boring. Just cleaning people’s teeth day in and day out. Anything can be boring but if you don’t try to make it fun. You could go to work everyday with the attitude that you hate your job, all you do is clean teeth, and it’s boring.

            Stop being that negative person! You can make any job fun if you work to make a relationship with your co-workers and patients. When I was interning the whole day was full of interesting event. We would socialize in the lab or sterilization rooms when waiting for our patients to arrive. We would have a potluck once a week so everyone could catch up on each other’s lives. We celebrate birthdays, anniversary’s, births, everything! We were one big family.

                                     

            Interning at a smaller dentist office made me realize that’s what I want. The hygienist, dental assistants, and dentist got to know everyone really well. When a patient would come in we would ask about their kids, grandkids, and parents. I was really interesting when patients would say they loved it there because of the personal relationship we tried to make with each person.

            It’s sad to think that coming to a dentist office would be the highlight of your year but for some patients it was, especially for the elderly. The elderly who had lost their significant other would say that they couldn’t wait to come see us because they simply had no one to talk to. Most of their family had past away and the only form of human communication that was left was when they had to go to an appointment.    

            Not every job is going to be interesting but it is up to you to make it a place you want to go. Make a relationship with your co-workers and patients. Your day will go from being a two to a ten once you figure that out. It’s all about whom you surround yourself with.

            They say if you find the right job you wouldn’t have to work a day I your life. It is also important to make a family within your work place and don’t just view the patients as patients but as friend. It will make you love your job and not dread going to work whether it was the job of your dreams or what you have to do to get by.