Something I hate about 'taking the B roads' to CCT is constantly having justify why I'm *still* a trainee.
Nothing I've done or am doing-spend a year in NZ, have 2 x mat leave, work a bit LTFT or do a PhD- are that unusual in medicine, alone. But do them all and suddenly you feel people think you're taking an embarassingly long time to finish specialty training.
I wouldn't even call it a scenic route- I haven't switched specialties, or failed an ARCP or been off sick, although these are of course all perfectly reasonable reasons. It just takes a long time to do all the things I wanted to do.
Instead of asking 'when are you finishing?', I wish people would ask me 'hows the PhD going?' Or 'how are your children?'.

We have to stop treating people like they've somehow failed if they're not a consultant by 35.
I don't regret any of my choices and I absolutely love what I'm doing right now. But it would be nice sometimes if people saw them as positive choices, not just things that delay the 'finish line'.

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