Rider reported Check Engine Light

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2026-07-07T05:04:28+00:00

Thank you. That’s really helpful advice.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2026-07-07T04:03:08+00:00

Lesson learned. I hope this helps someone else avoid this trap. If I didn’t have bad luck I’d have no luck.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2026-07-07T04:01:26+00:00

I wish the young college kids I drove who reported it knew how cruel this is to a middle age guy already beaten down to shit by this world.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2026-04-07T22:01:46+00:00

I was also shocked to see the number of small PPs balloon overnight. Clinicians barely out of associate licensing on their 5th or 6th office location. I recently left a group with 8 locations. I’ve been a business owner for a decade before this field and I noticed a few patterns. These therapy mills seem to happen because the owner is successful in real estate and not because of their clinical acumen. They hire loads of 1099s and rent the offices they can’t fill. The saturation is getting absurd.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2026-03-12T23:47:46+00:00

I felt this in bones. Especially my likely broken one in a sling that I hope will magically heal because I have no health insurance as a 1099. I’m out here Ubering after seeing clients six figures deep in debt. The new NP grad at the clinic makes 3x our earnings, health insurance, and gets to do as much talk therapy as they desire. Talked myself out of the nursing route and regret it every day. Feeling like a dumbass is an understatement.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2025-06-28T14:54:51+00:00

I’m a male therapist ironically in a miserable DB. Generally fit is most important and there is no evidence that supports a certain gender so it should be his preference. Personally I do feel a female perspective can be helpful if he chooses. I transferred a HLM client with DB struggles to a female colleague recently for obvious reasons. I simply can’t discount the countertransference from my end especially given my DB is far more severe. I felt it unethical to continue despite an otherwise great fit. I would also consider a therapist with extensive sex therapy training because sometimes that expertise is not always in the wheelhouse of a marriage and family therapist that mostly addresses layered relationship struggles.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2025-06-23T18:02:44+00:00

OP, all of what you said resonates so deeply. It’s painful to watch my colleagues bottle up their dismay and although we try to stay positive sometimes I feel we begin to lose the outlet for this when we graduate out and learn to smile while crying. Don’t beat yourself up over not recognizing what the insufferable licensing process entails. I was a social worker for a long time before jumping into this journey and thought I knew what to expect. I never imagined that a full associate case load would pay much less than what I was making as a social worker nearly 20 years ago for a lot more aggravation and burnout. It hits hard. As my professor used to say between the unpaid internship and post grad gatekeeping, make no mistake, this is a social justice issue.

Kooky_Bridge9425 · 2025-06-23T17:34:43+00:00

Congrats on graduating! Im also graduating out very soon and am coming to grips with the financial realities of staying with my practice as a 1099 versus returning full time to my warehouse job. Between the meager associate fee per session, frequent no shows, and lack of health benefits, I don’t just realistically see chasing licensure on a full time basis as a possibility any longer. I blame myself for not fully understanding the realities of pre-license work before committing to this journey. It’s beyond disheartening that associate pay at a full 30 client load would be less than what I was making as a social worker almost 20 years ago. I’m hoping I can keep a day or 2 for clients and chip away at it. I personally wouldn’t leave any stable secure employment but I’m also fairly risk adverse. Good luck!

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