 What is going on everybody? Welcome back to my channel. I am joined yet again with a very special guest my wife Adriana and what are we doing on today's video? We're talking about our six month update living in New York. Yeah so we've been in New York City for six months now and a lot has happened since that time so we figured we would sit down tell you our experience in the first six months of living here what's been going on what hasn't been going on how we feel about it and what's happening in our life in the interim so let's get into it. Let's go. This video is sponsored by Morning Brew. Before I found out about Morning Brew my mornings were usually spent drinking coffee and just aimlessly browsing social media until eventually I had to get ready for work and then my friend told me about Morning Brew which is a newsletter sent to your email every Monday through Saturday and my mornings have never been the same. 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Now the reason we moved up here amidst the COVID pandemic was because we really had no choice. I signed a contract to do my fellowship in interventional radiology up here in New York City of what 2019? A year ago. Yeah a year ago. A year. I literally signed my contract a year before this whole COVID pandemic thing happened and the contract is binding and that's why I had to come to New York City. And before some of you all say I thought you were doing interventional radiology in residency before you came up here that's partly true because I was in the early specialization of interventional radiology or ESIR program at University of North Carolina where I did my diagnostic radiology residency where you do kind of an emphasis or last year fully in interventional radiology before you do your final year or sixth year of residency in interventional radiology which is what we call a fellowship. So that's the real reason we came up here. But it's also really nice that we are back in New York since I'm born and raised here all my family and friends are here we met here we got married here so it always holds a special place in our hearts. And what better place to be than New York City? No city can beat it. Sort of because it's not the same as it was it once was when we were up here you know frolicking around the city going out every night and all this stuff it is nothing like that at all. No it's not I mean you know this restaurant seen in the cocktail scene and and so forth are really they're really trying to make it what it was um we really are trying to support the local restaurants by eating outdoors when we can um and just trying new places we're trying to take advantage of trying all the restaurants that we had on our bucket list for example now that it's Christmas time we'll probably still stop by the Christmas tree maybe even go ice skating just to take advantage of all the New York City things. But it's it's different now that a lot of the restaurants have closed down a lot of them are boarded up a lot of them can't afford the expensive rent here you know the the restaurants the restaurant scene isn't what it used to be and now a lot of people don't want to eat outside wearing a winter coat to eat dinner and that's part of the problem now in the winter time which I expressed concern for in one of my prior vlogs which I'll try to link up here when I showed you guys some of the closed down restaurants and all this stuff and I was worried about winter because of the cold weather so amidst all this craziness in COVID pandemic and also all the shutdowns in New York City there are a few good things that have come from it one of them is that Andrea got a new job or started a completely different career than she has done in the past you want to talk about that yeah so now I'm an aesthetics PA meaning that now my whole entire focus is on aesthetic medicine as you probably already know from my previous videos I was a dermatology PA a general surgery PA and then in North Carolina I was doing urgent care um why am I an aesthetics well ultimately when I was doing my rotations my elective my elective rotation was in dermatology and I knew that ultimately my goal was to gear my career into aesthetic medicine I got the exposure when I was a student my first job at PA school was in dermatology and I always had a part-time dermatology job I thought that this new new location was a great time to have a new job and the opportunity presented itself and now I'm working in aesthetic medicine and for those of you who don't know what aesthetics medicine is or what it entails what what is it so it's the cosmetic portion of dermatology or the cosmetic portion of all injectable treatments so think of wrinkle reducers like Botox um dermal fillers as well as as well as all skincare treatments who thinks that we should do a treatment on Michael we should do a video and do something for you yeah I'm down if you want me to do like a Botox or facial treatment and do a vlog at her work and have her do it let me know in the comments below that'd be fun yeah um I don't care but yeah so it's all facial treatments that are all cosmetic that make in person or individual feel restored and refreshed we're not changing or altering anyone's face lots of lots of concerns when it comes to injectables regarding that it's all just about maintaining our natural beauty and natural aesthetics so that's essentially what our goal is in aesthetic medicine and I love it it's my passion and I'm so glad that I'm in it I think it's really important just in general for PA's if you if that is where you're or for PA students if that is where you see yourself then definitely try and get a derm rotation a derm or plastic surgery rotation so you can see what PA's do you don't really have much exposure in PA school so it's definitely great to get your opportunity when you actually have that elective rotation or shadowing prior to PA school so I know you were in surgery when I met you and also doing dermatology at the same time so you're doing procedures and also managing skin conditions so I feel like aesthetics medicine is like a perfect mixture of those two fields agreed I think that was where I thrive the most yeah I feel like that kind of fits your personality what you wanted out of it for your perfect exactly I always felt like aesthetic medicine was like the I don't know the fashion industry where you keep up with yeah fashion industry of medicine where you keep up with new trends when it comes to all things beauty so that's where I thrive and that's what I love the most so I felt like this was the perfect transition in my career yeah I agree yeah so I mean that it worked out perfectly for her she loves this job she wants to continue to do this job right I mean and that's part of the reason why we want to stay in this area so she can keep this job and also that kind of brings us to our next kind of life update and that's my job and what the heck I'm even doing after I finish fellowship in like six months time now I yeah it's crazy I mean this is six years in the making or 14 years total of medical education and it's finally a party yeah we shouldn't do a party if we could or we can maybe hopefully by next year 2021 and we can actually have a party maybe we could do a combo party of what my 30th birthday oh yeah and you and you're a graduation yeah her 30th birthday is like almost the exact same time as my graduation so basically what we're trying to figure out is or what I'm trying to figure out is the daunting task of finding my first real job as an attending physician which is like terrifying me currently because I don't there's a lot of different things that go into that because I know I've mentioned it on here before but you have to know exactly kind of what you're looking for in a attending physician job you have to know location which we sort of know we know we want to stay around here which is the easiest part in terms of what I want out of a job I don't really know because I've never had one and I'm exposed to every aspect of interventional radiology in my current job but I don't know what I want to focus on going forward if that makes sense you know I feel like when the opportunity presents itself that's when you know that it'll be the right position for you yeah that's kind of what I'm banking on but I'm a lot of my colleagues are getting jobs right now and I think like half of our fellowship class has jobs or is in talks with other places and I'm still kind of unsure about how to find that perfect job that fits me I haven't found it yet and I'm hoping it comes soon although I haven't really been looking this has been browsing yeah loosely browsing jobs but I haven't like really wanted to pursue one job that I've found so we'll see yeah I mean like I said I feel like this is your first job always gonna be your favorite job or your usually not and goal job I feel like not really I mean there's always that's always the stepping stone so so yeah I know it's only been six months I feel like it's been longer I mean six months that time like time flies yeah time flies especially when we're like not even traveling we're not doing anything and time is still flying which is crazy I'm halfway through fellowship I feel like I just got here yeah and I feel like I haven't even like to explore it anything you know like I haven't done anything I feel like besides go to work every day which is kind of unfortunate but it is what it is in the current environment and hopefully I'll find the job going forward if you have any prospects let us know let us know in the northeast New York greater New York area something like that so that's pretty much it so we have and drama is new job we have New York not being the same as it once was and hopefully it'll get better though I don't think it'll get better for many years to come then we have my job which I don't have and I'm in the process of looking for your fellowship almost coming to an end fellowships almost coming to the end her birthday at the same time but for these last six months we just want to give you all an update of kind of what we've been doing since we haven't been able to like vlog anything or go anywhere it's really just work kind of enjoying each other's company seeing some friends and family going out to a few restaurants ordering ordering and a lot supporting local restaurants when we can and that's pretty much it this is oh by the way I forgot to mention this is my second week of vacation so I used two to six months and then two the next six months and still not going anywhere so I'll be working yeah she'll be working the whole time and I'll just kind of be sitting here with the week off and trying to figure out something to do much need a week off he can cook for me yeah maybe I'll learn how to probably just end up making new cocktails that seems to be the usual thing I don't mind coming home to a new cocktail recipe sounds good of course so we'll go ahead and end the video there we just want to give you all a quick update of our life what's going on with us and all that stuff for those of you who care and uh yeah make sure you follow us on Instagram follow us on TikTok and if you have any new video ideas that you would like us to film let us know in the comments below we may film them if they're up our alley otherwise make sure you smash that subscribe button and otherwise we'll see you on our next video see you