Nobody decided this was your job.
It just became yours.
Essays on the quiet ways a career stops fitting the person in it.
Essays
You Didn’t Agree to This. Or Did You?
How reliable people end up holding work nobody assigned them.
The Quiet Cost of Being Good at Your Job
What it costs to build work you can do without thinking.
The habits we inherit, and why some work is so hard to hand off.
I Built the Case for Someone Else
A promotion file, and who I was really building it for.
The Hour That Produced Nothing
A woman stitching a lobster, and the hour I couldn’t leave empty.
Hi, I’m Shaun
I’m a clinician (PA-C) and professor (PhD) with more than a decade in academics and over fifteen years in clinical practice.
For years I built work that ran predictably, and for a long time that felt like progress. Then a health event slowed me down enough to see what it had been costing me.
That is most of what I write about now. I also work with a small number of professionals each year on a decision that has stayed open too long.