A short personal narrative (YouTube video) in which the speaker describes working at Coffee Kade, a Sri Lankan-inspired cafe in Glasgow, as a transformative experience that rebuilt their confidence after time in medicine. The job allowed them to express creativity through food and coffee, reconnect with non-medical social circles, and work alongside creative colleagues (many with ADHD).
And now I work in a cafe called Coffee Kade, which is a Sri Lankan inspired cafe in the south side of Glasgow. And it's been amazing. Like, it's. It's rebuilt my confidence. I can really translate my creativity into making food and coffee. And what's really amazing as well is that I'm surrounded by people that have nothing to do with medicine. Obviously, some of my best pals in the world are doctors, but it's also nice to have that separate entity. And people that I work with, a lot of them also have ADHD, which is amazing, and they're writers and painters and DJs, and they've had all these really exciting lives and squiggly careers, and it's just been amazing to have time in that space and remember this whole side of myself that I completely forgot about.
