Thread by @usnehal

Arrived! Bathroom set up. At least the temporary set up. Why do I have bathroom as big as my bedroom? This should have been space in my WIC.

So, I have my work cut out for me to reconstruct my home (boxes everywhere). 2 years ago had made a big move after 13 years in Boston, moving just 1 day before the start of a job as a CMO of 14 centers & $100 budget but that is when the apartment with a view & WIC was available.

One of my “top strengths” is “input”

“You are naturally inquisitive.
You are a collector.
You love to learn new words, memorize facts, collecting quotes, and read new books.
You are excited by the complexity and infinite nature of the world.”

=clutter

letstalkpersonality.com/thinking/input…

Discovering “bins” at the Container Store has been great AND dangerous. So easy to throw random stuff into a bin & “look” neat but many of the bins are pretty disorganized inside.

Mind you, I never fully unpacked in NYC. Had this beautiful view and often ignored my apartment.

These were my initial attempts in NYC - I started off SO well. My error was I did not hire an organizer. When you move 1 day before stating a 1st time CMO job with over 700 staff and 14 centers across 4 boroughs, then you need help. Men have wives who do this. Woman need to hire.

Problem is when you hire folks, that does not mean they are competent. And organizers charge $80-150/hour, as much or more than I make working nights, holidays, weekends as a pediatrician. I have been through 5 organizers. One bought wrong size bins without measuring shelf 1st.

Another organizer forgot her jacket at my place then needed me to drop it to her home. Another offered bizarre nutrition tips (unsolicited weight loss advice)

Just 🤬 do the overpriced organizing job you are hired to do & stop creating extra work for me

So, battle entropy solo

And the NYC guy hired to rebuild my IKEA wardrobe for this stuff have a place to go? His buddy was too drunk to work. So found myself between wall & 93” unit helping him. Then he said a lot of single women ask him for help & some ask him out. He would not mind if I asked him out

I got him out of my apartment but then had only a half built wardrobe. I had moved stuff onto the empty bed frame & delayed buying a mattress. My carefully laid out plans to immediately have a functional home disrupted by bad, unreliable hires I focused on work and this remained.

I miss NYC sunrises!!! This today vs this the last 2 years. I simply ignored my never fully unpacked apartment and either enjoyed the view or was reading or was out or was in my head. Apartment? I am good at hopscotch. When you manage a 14-center FQHC chaos is your norm.

This is actually why I have issues with many on #MedTwitter who fixate on petty details easily controlled, seem incapable of getting past “personal attack” when addressing systems issues. Could I have a perfect home? Sure. I wrestle with big messy frustrating problems at scale.

Petty people define their entire selves & scope of their consciousness by petty details. And I am not saying details don’t matter, they do. They are important for functionality. They are important to vet and validate when doing things that impact others

Don’t get me wrong. This is so 😍 when I manage it

But even that lovely table & chairs, I’d gotten off of Overstock, the chair tops were never secured cuz the holes were not predrilled. 7 years like that until I gave it away

Thanksgiving week is coming. Just get unpacking done

So... I want to go back to NYC! The food is as expensive here but less good. Out of caution (makes sense) food deliveries not allowed into building to door - must go get it.

I feel like I moved to Iceland. No sun. Depressing by 4:30 p.m. vs the city lights and view I had in NYC.

This is my new “view”

😫😩😭😟😞😒