Ebola Is Not My Startup:A Founders Circumstance

Being my "day job" is working at the local hospital, while my "real job" is building startups, yeah, I punch the clock always wondering when my last day of ever doing that again will come. I know it will, I just don't know when.

With Ebola being ever so scary,us hospital workers are a bit terrified. We work with sick people all the time, that's our job. We have hearts filled with compassion to take care of the those who need help. Yeah, we have precaution standards, and let me tell you, we comply! Do we want to get a fatal illness in the care of someone else? Certainly not! Do we want to take care of those with life threatening illnesses, certainly yes! That's what we do. We love people and we want to help them. 

Just as everyone in the world is super worried about Ebola, so too am I. I found myself thinking about how this nurse in Dallas contracted the illness, as I know for a fact that all us hospital workers take precautions very serious. There is a ton of illnesses that will not kill us, yet make us very sick and we don't want those. Then there are the illnesses that will kill us slowly over the years, we don't want those either. Then there is Ebola, dead in three weeks flat! 

I can tell you this, that every single person who works in healthcare is more scared than you. We are the ones this crazy virus is staring at. It puts our jobs in an uncomfortable place. Just last night I was talking to a nurse and she said "she would quit her job if Ebola comes to our hospital" she is a awesome nurse, who gives the best of care, and she want's to save her own life more than help an Ebola patient. Sad, yet understandable. I too am worried. The first thing that crossed my mind was "NO, I have to build Passdown" I don't want that crazy virus to take me from this startup. I can't die, cause I have to build Passdown!

Of course my kids and husband were in my mind too, yet right now my passion is to build something great for humanity, and that dirty little bug, could stand in my way. I feel threatened by that virus, as if it's going to swoop in and spoil my dreams and maybe end my life.

Well, maybe that's a bit self centered, yet, it's just like the nurse who said she would quit her job. Yes, us health care workers want to take care of you, but maybe some of us will draw the line when it comes to our own lives. Yet even that would be no guarantee. 

So what do you do? Keep Living ~