See the positive, not the negative — it might just make your day

Looks miserable, doesn’t it? Photo by Eutah Mizushima on Unsplash

I just got back from the gym. It’s raining outside.

I had a bad day. Three years into the startup journey, I’m working in more operational stuff than ever. I’m supposed to do strategic stuff and all that, as the co-founder, but I spent my train ride assembling fucking name tags and reviewing CVs. Monkey work, as I like to call it.

Said train was also only half the size it was supposed to be, everyone was standing, and in a bad mood. My suitcase was in a different wagon, retrieving it harder than to get to the front row for a Backstreet Boys concert. Arriving in Frankfurt, turns out all bus drivers are on strike. Which means: trams are packed (no space for suitcases), and late. So I walked. In the rain.

God damnit, I thought. Why the hell am I doing this?

I just got back from the gym. It’s raining outside.

I had a great day. Started the day in Munich, and learned a lot about the work of radiology assistants: how radiotherapy and nuclear medicine works, what the difference between a CT and a PET-CT is, why certain radioactive material gathers in tumors and how you properly scan a brain. Then, I said goodbye to the 15 candidates from Italy, who applied for our program (we bring unemployed medical professionals from Southern Europe to…