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I've been sitting at work thinking about what I wanted to write about for a while now. I'm an athletic trainer (person who helps injured athletes get better) so if no one is injured there can be a lot of down time. Just now one of my athletes walked into my office and asked if I wanted to look into a job at a local high school.

She asked because she knows that I'm just at my job temporarily while the full time trainer is on maternity leave. So I'm scheduled to leave this college at the end of February. I've been here for two months already and it has been a great experience.

I've only been out of college for going on three years. Before this job I was working in a physical therapy clinic. I loved all of my coworkers and the majority of the patients that I worked with. The problem was the clinic just wasn't the right setting for me. Working there I had started to feel like I chose the wrong career path.

Working here though, I've been reassured that this what I want to do. At least this is something I can see myself doing for a while down the road.

By asking me if she could help me try and get another job after I'm finished here, she totally made me feel like I was good at what I do. I can honestly say this was the first time an athlete made me feel this way. It's not the first time I've felt like I'm good at my job. Frankly, I know I'm good at my job. It's the first time I've had one of my athletes or a patient tell me directly.

Normally, I like think that I'm not the type of person who needs outside praise for validation. I've gotta tell you though that the little comments that people have been making over the last couple of months have gone a long way. I've kind of been worried about finding another job after this one, and now I feel confident that it won't take me long.

Her statement also turned what was going down as an extremely boring day at work into one that I all of sudden don't mind so much.

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