Posted Dec. 2, 2022, 11:12 a.m. by Lieutenant Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) (Jennifer Ward)
Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Eela’s Apartment- Compelling Things to Grow
Posted by Lieutenant Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Eela’s Apartment- Compelling Things to Grow
Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Eela’s Apartment- Compelling Things to Grow
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Eela sipped her tea and nodded. “Yes. We have a similar experience that way. I could study all the techniques I wanted but until I was face to face with someone going through something difficult there was no way to know what kind of counsellor I would be. Being a captain was a little different though. By then I had been in leadership roles before that so I understood how I thought, how I reacted, and where I’d need support. But sitting in that captain’s chair for the first time wearing that fourth pip?” She shook her head. “That weight of responsibility is hard to compare to earlier. And now it just feels like a surreal dream if I actually sit to think through what it I’ve done by accepting this job,” she added with a laugh.
~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.
Sharah nodded, “It was a little different for me. I was always drawn to help people, from most of my earliest memories. I couldn’t stand it, for someone to be hurting and was determined to fix it. I knew I would be determined and compassionate,” how could she be anything else? The alternative was terrifying. The choice black and white. “I just didn’t know how successful I would be. But I never wanted leadership. That wasn’t my goal, it wasn’t what drove me. It still doesn’t. I left a position as a CSO on a mythology class ship because I wanted to return to medicine.” Sharah shook her head and sipped the tea staring out the window. “Then my next captain sent me here, right back into a leadership role.” Sharah laughed softly. “I think, they think they know something I don’t.”
Sharah
Dasca grinned from over the lip of her cup before sipping. “They just might. And I get it, working with patients is a rewarding experience that is hard to match. But I also resisted leadership, and I too had to learn to see what others were seeing. No one is requiring you to to do more, Sharah, but consider for a moment the people in leadership roles you’ve encountered that truly inspired you, who made you want to be and do better. There are a lot of people out there who want power for power’s sake, to feel powerful. We always need more leaders who are compassionate and willing to stand up for those that can’t do so for themselves. In all areas of life, including medicine. Sometimes when we stop fighting the thing we’re being compelled to do, we find the magic.”
~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.
Sharah laughed, “Oh I’m not saying I don’t like what I am doing. The situation here, the dynamics are....compelling, they drive me. If you told me I had to transfer, to leave Oed and Sacred Heart, I can truthfully say I would resign so I could stay here and continue doing this job.” She smiled thoughtfully over her cup. “I think my first bout with leadership was a wring fit. You can put people who care and do a hreat job into positions but that doesn’t mean they fit. I found my way onto the Ark Angel because of my thesis and my background in Botany. I was put in charge of the arboretums and I really enjoyed that work, the people, and even the administration. Somehow I ended up as an Ensign as the CSO of a mythology class ship and given the rank of Jr Lt a year and a half out of the Academy. There were much more experienced officers. Medicine is science but I was ill-equipped to help the officers of my dept. I had very little experience over all and even less in the respective disciplines. There is delegation but in the end it was on my shoulders.”
Sharah lifted a shoulder, “Here, in Medical, I don’t feel like I am floundering. I feel like I have the knowledge, the understanding that I can make those decisions and know I am not failing anyone, even if I make a wrong decision.”
Fayth, SFCMO
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