 Hey everybody, it's Boris. I just wanted to wish everyone a really happy memorial day. Wanted to thank all the service members, anyone who's watching this in the military. Thank you for your service. Thank you for everything you do. Keeping us safe, keeping us free, letting us do what we do. Basically letting me stay in this cozy room with an air conditioner and getting to go to school and make videos while you guys are out on the front lines, out on the sandbox, you know, wearing a bunch of gear and 110 degree heat getting shot at. All that stuff. I just want everybody who's in the military watching this to know. I really appreciate everything you do. I'm super grateful. You guys are all heroes. Okay, next thing. If my video and my audio look and sound different, it's because I'm filming this on my phone. I'm in yet another Airbnb and yet another new location. This time I'm in Plattsburgh, New York. It's like way up north. Basically, if you don't have it pulled up on a map, it's Canada, Vermont, and then Plattsburgh right across from Lake Champlain. So it's like way up north, North country. And so I didn't take all my stuff. I didn't take my microphone, my nice camera, any of that stuff. So any videos that I make here, I'm just going to make on my phone. I think it's going to look and sound pretty good. Maybe not as good as my normal camera and microphone setup, but you know, good enough. So if anything looks and sounds different, that's why. All right, third order of business. And this is the biggest update that I really wanted to give you guys. I signed a contract. I signed a contract for a job. I officially have a job lined up for when I graduate from PA school. And I just wanted you guys to know that it wasn't an easy decision, came with a ton of soul searching, whether or not to take it, whether or not I should hold out for something different, maybe look in a different city. I initially thought that I would go back to Cleveland where my family lives and you know, work there, be closer to family, see my niece grow up, have my parents be closer by so I can hang out with them, spend more time with them. I also thought about living somewhere like Nashville or like North Carolina or even Florida, just places I personally really like to live for a bunch of different reasons, mostly the weather. I'm kind of a freeze baby. I don't like the cold, even though I do like skiing, but I don't like the cold. I like outdoor activities year round, so I kind of wanted to go down south where it's warmer. But basically what happened is this job came along and just blew me away. It's like it feels like I've been preparing for this job my whole entire life. Let me tell you a little bit about it. Okay. So it's outpatient internal medicine, which is basically like primary care family medicine, but for adults only, you know, 18 and over, no kids, which is ironic because the rotation I'm about to start tomorrow is pediatrics. So I'm about to learn all this cool stuff about treating kids, how to treat child specific illnesses and stuff like that. And I'm just not going to use any of it in this job, but it's still really really good to know. So I'm really excited about the pediatrics rotation, but this job is going to be basically all adults. So it's family medicine, you know, primary care, being somebody's kind of family doctor. I'm going to be a PA, but, you know, being basically someone's first go to for all their health problems, doing all their health maintenance, referring them to specialists, stuff like that, just a huge broad scope of practice, lots and lots of diseases, you're treating everything. And so what I really wanted for my first job is to not specialize. I wanted to do something general. So like emergency medicine, family medicine, something like that, just so that I can really reinforce and retain all the knowledge that I got from PA school and build on top of that and just really learn every body system more in depth and in practice. I didn't want to specialize in like gastroenterology, didn't want to specialize in like neurology or something like super specific. I wanted to keep it general. Also kind of going into PA school and from the rotations that I've done, I basically became certain. I basically went into PA school knowing this, but having done the rotations, I'm now certain I do not want to do surgery for a lot of different reasons. But basically, the main one is my service connected back injuries make it really difficult for me to stand in a sterile environment, you know, where you basically have to keep your hands in this space, like just this box, can't really put your hands down, can't really sit down. And it's just like it's really making my back injuries flare up, and it's just making me miserable to be in the OR. So I basically know that I just can't really have a surgery job. Maybe sometime down the line, I can have a job where it's like some minor procedures like Derm, plastic surgery, something like that. But I just can't take a job where I'll be standing in the OR for like three up to six hours, sometimes at a time, staying sterile, not really moving much and looking down into where the surgery is being performed, you know, being first assist like a PA normally would be. So right off the bat, that just eliminates most surgical jobs and leaves me with mostly office based jobs, which is kind of better for my personality, you know, nine to five. And it's just better for me physically not having to stay sterile and not having to stand up for long periods of time due to my injury. So I basically already knew I was going to work an office based job. And then the choice basically became emergency medicine, primary care or specialty. And I wanted to focus on emergency medicine or primary care. Now primary care, I really like the hours better. A lot of people kind of hate on the nine to five schedule. I personally love it. I love having a routine schedule where you have some time before work. If you get up early like I do, you got some time after work, you got every single weekend off, you got holidays off. I just like I spent enough time in the military working holidays, working weekends, working really odd hours, standing watch. And I'm honestly, I'm just over it and I'm ready to just kind of have a nine to five, have a routine schedule and just be able to finally at long last just have a normal, stable life. I just like, I'm so excited to finally have just like a normal stable life for the first time in my life, honestly. So I'm stoked about the schedule. But the specialty and the schedule aren't even the best part of this job. The best part of this job is that the doctor that's running the practice, it's a small family medicine practice basically. The doctor that's running this practice just got his residency in obesity medicine. So it's a pretty new specialty. And if you've been paying attention to medical trends, metabolic syndrome, you know, diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, all that stuff is basically killing us. It's the biggest problem, the biggest health problem in America and basically in the Western world altogether. It's killing the most amount of people. It's destroying people's quality of life. And it's different from diseases that used to kill the most people, which is like infectious diseases, workplace injuries, stuff like that, like back in the 19th century and stuff. We basically got rid of most of that. We have antibiotics, we have lots of treatments, we have OSHA, you know, occupational safety and health administration, all kinds of rules and regulations. So a lot of people are not really dying from infectious disease and from all kinds of illnesses like that. Most people are dying nowadays due to obesity, due to diabetes and due to high blood pressure, cholesterol, things like that. Heart disease is the main killer of people, of adults in America nowadays. And so I'm just really excited. And the doctor and I really share this passion to really try to solve this problem at the root, to really try to solve this problem, the biggest health problem that America and most of the Western world faces. So I'm just really excited to have found a doctor that shares this colossal passion of mine for physical fitness, nutrition, weight management, all those things, preventative medicine basically, keeping people healthy instead of just fixing them when they break. I freaking, freaking love that. And I just can't wait to learn from and work with this doctor who's got a ton of experience in internal medicine, but also shares this passion of mine. So honestly, like I said, I feel like I've been preparing for this job my whole life. It's not just like you're one of the mill, you know, get your first job as a PA, just get your feet wet, just learn how to practice, and then maybe go find a job that's better for you. No, I feel like I'm starting with like the perfect job for me. Now, granted, I don't want to idealize anything. I'm sure there's going to be struggles. I'm sure there's going to be challenges. I'm sure there's going to be all kinds of stuff that I'm just not foreseeing right now. Totally accept that. I just love that my first job is going to be able to fuse my two biggest passions, which are like fitness and overall health, along with medicine and practicing medicine. So basically just wanted to give you guys that update. I'm so stoked for this job. I'm definitely going to update you guys once I actually start working there. It's obviously not for a few months because I still have like two months left of PA school. Then I got to take the pants and all that stuff. And I'm going to take a couple months off to travel in between all that. So there's still a few more steps in this road to get there before I start working this job. But I did get it. I signed the contract. I'm going to be starting the job in November. It is in Syracuse, New York, where my PA school is. So I'm pretty excited about that. I love the area. I've already got some connections in the area. So it just feels nice to stay somewhere where I know people. I have some hobbies. I already know how to get around. So that part's really good for now. Anyway, like I said, just wanted to update you guys really quick on my life. Like I said, I'm in Plattsburgh, New York doing this pediatric rotation. It actually starts tomorrow. So I think what I'm about to do after I make this video is I'm going to take the Ross Review Pediatrics Boost exam. It's like 110 questions that are all pediatrics. Kind of just test my knowledge, see where I'm at, see what I might need to review over the next week so I don't look like an idiot on this rotation. And so I really set myself up to get a good grade on the end of rotation exam, the EOR. You know, me, I like to start early. I like to knock everything out so that the last week I'm not freaking out and studying. I'm just enjoying my time, my last week on the rotation and basically being confident that I'm going to pass the exam. So if anyone has any questions for me, PA school related, pre-PA essays, interviews, you know, all the stuff that I like to talk about and like to teach you guys to get better at. Please send them my way. Reach out to me through my website, boristhepa.com. If you're interested in one of my services, CASPA essay review, supplemental essay reviews, mock interviews, pre-PA counseling, all that stuff that I do. You can just reach out to me through the website, click on the services tab and book whatever service you like. If you have any pre-PA questions you'd like to ask me, leave them in the comments below or just reach out to me through the website and I'll see you guys in the next video. Oh, and just one thing really quick. Look at this freaking view. I'm staying in this gorgeous Airbnb here in Platsburg, but look at this view outside my window. I really hope you can see that. That's Lake Champlain. It's freaking gorgeous. I love that I'm staying here. This apartment that I'm staying at is absolutely beautiful. This is my water and yeah, I guess I'm just really grateful to be here. I'm really grateful for this job. I'm really grateful for this rotation. I'm grateful for this channel and all of you watching it. And so yeah, just wanted to say that. Wanted to say hi and check in. I know I haven't posted for a couple weeks. So yeah, have a great day.