 All right, what's up you guys? Okay, so like the title says, I am taking a month off of work. And actually it's a little bit more than a month and it is paid. And so I wanted to touch on that for you guys because I've talked about my 24 hour shifts but I wanted to lay out advantages of the 24 hour shifts that I take advantage of and that a lot of my colleagues take advantage of as well. So let's get into the video right now. What's up you guys? Sit down and welcome back to my channel. So I know you guys are like, what, how are you taking a month off of work? Are you still even a trauma PA? Yes, I'm still a PA. I am taking PTO time to do this month off of work and I'm really excited about it because I've been working like a dog and I need a break. And so I wanted to touch on the beauties of the 24 hour shift. And this is one of the beauties, being able to take a large amount of PTO, still get paid for it. You're taking time off but you're still getting paid for it. And you're able to just kind of spend time doing the various different things that you wanna do. So as I've told you guys before, I work three shifts in a 14 day period. So three 24 hour shifts in a 14 day period. So if I go in on a Sunday at like 6.30 in the morning, I may leave the following Monday around like 8 or 8.30 in the morning. So a little bit more than 24 hours just because there are things that you have to do, like sign out to your oncoming PAs, talk to the attendings about any overnight events, just kind of wrap up some of the things from the night that you may not have had time to do because you had traumas, those kind of things. So it'll take about like 24, 26 hours in that day. And then you might do it again on like a Wednesday or Thursday. So my colleagues do it like Sunday, Saturday, Monday. But you have these long stretches in between or sometimes short depending on what you're looking at in terms of time off that you get. So how am I able to take a month off of work and still be full time? Some of you may be asking, well, let me tell you how. So as I just gave you that layout of how I'm able to work like a Sunday and then a Tuesday and then maybe even a Thursday like I worked this past week where I front loaded all of my shifts. So from Friday to the following like Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, it really depends on when I start. I can have that time off. Well, a lot of us do that quite often. So when we add the front load or even scatter our shifts where we're back and loaded, we have this huge, sometimes a week off of work, sometimes even a little bit longer depending on how you schedule your shifts to just kind of go on vacations and do whatever it is that you want to do. So I can take like a week or a five day vacation in the middle of my work schedule because my schedule is Sunday, Sunday, Thursday. So I have like seven to eight days to actually go travel or just kind of rejuvenate. And it's really been like becoming more and more apparent to me the necessity, I guess you could say. Taking time to rejuvenate yourself and just kind of recuperate after dealing with the trauma aspect of things because it can take not only like a mental toll on you but an emotional toll depending on the types of traumas that you're seeing coming in. So because of that, I haven't really taken any PTO time and for my job and I'm sure it is for other jobs as well but for my job, we cannot bank our PTO in terms of like rolling it over to, you know, I don't know, like another two years or in, you know, cashing it out. Like there are only certain times throughout the year right now where we can cash it out before there would be like there were some of my colleagues that had been working at my current place of employment for years and they had like hundreds of PTO built up. For me, I had a couple of hundred built up because I just never took any time off because I didn't need to. But if you don't use it, you lose it in terms of like I can no longer bank any more PTO. I can no longer collect my PTO. So why not use it? So that is what I'm doing. I'm using my PTO and that is one of the beauties of the 24 hour shifts is that you're able to take time off without taking paid time off and then you can kind of stock up on this paid time off to just be able to like have a really good vacation, a good time off and I am going to enjoy it. The second thing that I love about the 24 hour shift is the time that you get to spend with your family. So like I said, this all again breaks down to the schedule. If I'm only working three days in a 14 day period, there's 11 days out of a two week period that I get to spend with my kids and my husband. And it's pretty funny because they're like, oh, like on any day that I'm going to work they're like, why are you going to work? You have to go to work. And I'm like, yo, like you do realize that the average person goes to work every day of the week like five days a week, sometimes even six days a week. The fact that I'm only going a max of two days a week is like a blessing. So you got to count your blessings, but they don't know any different, right? This is all they've known in terms of how I've worked and in terms of what they can remember because they're still kind of young. So it's funny, but I like that. I like the fact that they want to be around me and I like the fact that I get to spend time with them because that's really why I went into this profession in the first place. And I'm just really grateful that I got a position and a job and a career that affords me the opportunity to not only help others and fulfill that passion that I have, but at the same time be able to be present and at home with my kids. Now granted, like after you're coming off of a 24 hour shift, you're kind of zonked, you're really tired. So there may be like a stretch of like four hours there that you're sleeping, but if your kids are in school and you sleep through the day, you'll be able to be with them up in the evening when they come home from school and into the night versus now as it is in the summertime where they're like, oh, you know, let's do this. And you're like, yo, I'm so tired. Like give me just like two, three hours. But you definitely have to just take that recovery day slash recovery hours to just get back into the swing of things after a 24 hour shift. It's all about like almost like compartmentalizing, like, you know, getting everything done all at once. And then, you know, you don't have to worry about it later. And so it's the same thing with this job. Like you kind of get 24 hours, almost a full 40 hour week out of the way already in one shift. And then you don't have to worry about it for like three or four shifts. Sometimes even seven depending on how your schedule and then you go from there. So hopefully this kind of gives you a little bit more insight into the 24 hour shift. I don't know what I'm gonna, well, no, I do know exactly like what I'm gonna be doing. And I might take you guys along on some of those journeys that I'm gonna be taking this month, but I'm gonna be enjoying myself and I'm gonna be like planning and making some content for you guys. So stay tuned for that. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you haven't already done so, like my video, follow me on Instagram at it on the PA and on Instagram at Get That See University where we help you not only get into but through PA school. Thank you guys. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.