One Final Questionable episode for the year, where you send in your questions and I give you my questionable answers!
This week I discuss transitioning to OT from teaching, the prevalence of burnout in rural areas and how to respectfully quit your job.
To have your question answered on the next podcast, send me a DM on instagram (@Hollytheot_podcast).
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One Final Questionable episode for the year, where you send in your questions and I give you my questionable answers!
This week I discuss transitioning to OT from teaching, the prevalence of burnout in rural areas and how to respectfully quit your job.
To have your question answered on the next podcast, send me a DM on instagram (@Hollytheot_podcast).
https://www.instagram.com/thegradguide_/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993247/13646501
Today's episode is very proudly brought to you by InReach Co, australia's first exclusively regional, rural and remote Allied Health job platform. Inreach Co was created by Allied Health professionals for Allied Health professionals and is committed to connecting Australian communities with the Allied Health care workers they need For a simple and interactive way to explore current regional and remote positions, or for businesses wanting to explore job advertisement opportunities. Head to wwwinreachcocomau. The links will also be in the show notes. G'day guys, and welcome to Holly the OT podcast. My name is Holly and I am an occupational therapist looking to create a judgment-free zone for all OT students, new grads and early year therapists. Join me as I give my honest opinions on the highs and the lows and the ins and the outs of being an OT. Before I start today's episode, I'd like to acknowledge the Wujak Nongaw people who are the traditional custodians of the land. This episode was recorded G'day you guys. Welcome back to another episode of Holly the OT podcast.
Speaker 1:I think it's almost the end of the day and this could be my last episode. I have an idea for a final episode. I know I said in my last episode that only be one more, or did I say those two? Who knows, this could be the last one. You might not hear from me again. If I get all my ducks in a row and find some time, there could be a final, final episode, but this is potentially the last one. So thank you for tuning in, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1:I hope that the end of the year is treating you so very well. It can be so hectic getting towards the end of the year and I just hope that no one is feeling too pressured to get everything done and can really enjoy the silly season. It's such a fun time of year for many, many reasons. But I have a questionable episode for you guys today, which is lovely. It's been a few weeks since I've done a questionable episode. I've got two really good questions today. One is a two-part question, so that's me claiming three questions. It's usually my style a trifecta. So two questions and, yeah, they're really, really good ones. So stick around for those.
Speaker 1:But before we do that, highs and lows. You guys know the drill. I actually have had a super emotional week, so I'm going to meddle my highs and lows in together. Now, anyone who knows me, I'm not a super like emotional person. Like I don't. I don't typically cry, like it's not really my outlet for my emotions. I'm yeah, I'm not a crier, but this week I have cried so many times about like good and bad things. So for my highs and lows this week, I've compiled a list of all the reasons that I've cried and that's what I'm going to share with you guys. So that's my highs and lows.
Speaker 1:So reason number one that I cried this week is and I mentioned this in the intro for my bonus episode with Kane but my niece graduated preschool and I cried happy tears because how absolutely adorable. And then I cried sad tears because missed her. And then same vibe again with my nephew ruining the academic excellence. Oh, that is a tongue twister, academic excellence. Yeah, I cried happy tears and then I cried because I wasn't there. And then I cried happy tears again because my mom sent me some funny photos of the graduation.
Speaker 1:I also cried watching Love Island. I have been this is my first year actually watching Love Island. It's such an easy watch. I don't typically watch TV I'm more of a 30 second video on TikTok kind of gal but Love Island has been so easy to watch and I was catching up on episodes. And if anyone has watched Kaylin Tyra getting together. I cried in Kayle's little speech of how like he liked Tyra from the start, so that made me happy cry.
Speaker 1:I also cried because it's my grandma's 90th birthday next week and I was making her a book from all the grandkids with messages and photos from all of her grandkids and there's a lot of us. So it was just yeah, I don't know if I was happy or sad crying. I don't know what part of it was making me cry, but I cried over that. I also cried because my brother, who has been going through cancer this year, he is overseas on his first like solo overseas holiday. Just live in his best life. And I cried when he sent me a photo at the airport. I was like, oh my goodness, I'm just so happy.
Speaker 1:And I think there was another thing that I can't remember what it was. It's going to come to me like midway through this podcast Pause, hold on, let me see if I can remember it Intimation sounds. I think it was something to do. Oh, because I just dropped Kane at the airport. That was why I cried, which was just sad, because you know, kane's going to be away for Christmas, which is obviously not nice. We will see each other pretty soon after. But he was sad and I was sad and that was sad, and my mum sent me photos of my niece decorating the Christmas tree and that made me cry happy tears. So I was really confused as to why I was crying so much and then I got my period, so that explains it. But I hope you enjoyed that little fluctuation of my moods for the last few days.
Speaker 1:But let's get into the episode, shall we Questionable? Like I said, let's do it. So if this is your first time listening to a questionable episode or you just need a little refresher, this is essentially where you guys send me your questions about OT, or can be not about OT, hey, I'll give a crack at life advice. See what you've got for me. But it's your questions and my questionable answers.
Speaker 1:As always with everything I do in this podcast, I do not claim to know all the answers. I do not claim to have experience in every area. I love that you guys trust me to sending questions and want to hear my thoughts, but that's all they are. It's purely thoughts. It's purely my opinions. It's not endorsed by anyone. It's no one else's thoughts, just mine. They're never really controversial opinions, but they're my opinions nonetheless. So keep that in mind as you're listening. You may not agree, you may want to add additional things, and that's totally cool. If you have things you would do that you think you would give advice to these people, flick me a message and I'll pop it up on my stories or even revisit it in another podcast episode. So keep that in mind. Questionable advice I'm not here to change the world, but question number one. I'm going to read it out because it gives a little bit of context which will be important for my answers. So the question is hey, holly and I'm going to do the little spill at the start because it makes me happy, but I absolutely love your podcast and eagerly await each episode.
Speaker 1:I stumbled across your podcast while researching career options, as I'm wishing to retrain as an OT. I've been an English history and music teacher for many years and, prior to teaching, worked in community programs and career respite. Like most teachers in Victoria. At present, I'm seriously burnt out and fear that I may end up in another career where burnout is a real risk. Call it a midlife crisis. I'm in my early 40s. Am I too prehistoric to move into OT? I am prepared for the big undertaking of another degree and four years of retraining. However, we're entering the profession mid career put me behind the eight wall. We're working in a rural area where I live also increase the risk of burnout due to shortages. So two part question. So we're going to focus on the retraining first and then we're going to get into the rural part of that question.
Speaker 1:So my perspective is that if any profession was to retrain and become an OT, it would be, and it should be, teachers. The skill set that teachers have and the skill set that teachers would be able to bring across to an OT degree is astronomical. And if there are any teachers listening to this and I know there are a few, I've had actually a few people message me about this I think the switch from being a teacher to an OT will be the best decision you've made. That is just my opinion because I'm an OT and I'm biased, but I've actually had so many conversations with teachers upon learning about what I do as an OT and having me visit their classrooms, have said pretty explicitly that if they had their time over, they would retrain as an OT and I think education in general at the moment is really not the best place to be and it might not always stay like that, but we are hearing so many stories of teacher shortages, teacher burnout, teacher teachers leaving the profession.
Speaker 1:Two things that I will say to the lovely lady who sent this question is give the guide follow on Instagram. So this is M. M is a teacher. I'll link her bio in my show notes. You may already follow her, but for anyone else following along in the same situation, definitely give the guide a follow. She shares really, really great practical resources for teachers, just in terms of behavior, in terms of workload as a teacher, in terms of ways that you can reduce stress and create change within your school and within your workplace. That I found actually really helpful being an OT, even though it's a lot of things not relevant to me, but I would give her a follow, definitely.
Speaker 1:But as far as, will your age be of any impact to leading to burnout or to leading to your success as an OT? I think absolutely not. We know that OT is so based off experience and because our career is so broad, the more life experience you have and I mean that with no tongue in cheek in your proclaiming of prehistoric age, and I do not disagree. I do not agree, oh, my goodness, I do not agree at all. I think you have so much time, but the life experience that you have being that age and being in the experience that you would have had, studying, and whether you have children or what your family situation looks like, how often you've moved around just the general life experience that comes with being in your 40s, I think, will serve you so well as an OT and the practical skills that you have will be so, so important.
Speaker 1:I think with burnout it is so dependent on your workplace, it is so dependent on your mindset and it is so dependent on how you approach those first few years. So your age, I don't think, has anything to do with that. Obviously, keeping in mind, you will have commitments that are different to someone who is 21, 22, entering the workforce and you will have to consider whether you're in a position to be able to go on placements and have that time and I think that is a real challenge for a lot of people who would like to retrain is that they've got mortgages, they've got families, they've got commitments outside of just being a student. And that's not to say that people who are young don't also have those same commitments, but it's often not as prominent and it's often not as pressing to have eight weeks off at a time to go on placement, as someone who is a little bit older and a little bit more into their lifetime I might say. But I don't think that there is any contribution to age as to whether or not you're going to experience burnout.
Speaker 1:I really, really encourage teachers to sort of look in. Actually had I met a girl the other day at a Pilates class which was so fun and she was a teacher and she was generally considering studying OT and her concerns were how her days were going to look different. And I always say I have this conversation with people about teachers and I don't know if anyone else who's maybe a mobile therapist can agree with this but just being able to change my environment, just being able to remove myself from situations, you know, when you're a teacher you can't go anywhere. You are with the children Constantly. Obviously they go out to lunch, they have breaks as RFF, but for the most part you are in a classroom constantly.
Speaker 1:The overstimulation, the fatigue and the just general overwhelm that I can only imagine that would cause teachers Is something that I think I would really struggle with. The father teacher. The fact that you know I have my sessions with children whether it's 30 minutes an hour, you know, totally dependent on the child but then I can either get in my car and drive to another child, I can drive home, I can drive to my office, whatever it might be, whatever role I'm in, that debrief and not able ability to disconnect from each client at a time I think really makes me love my work as a mobile OT and I think teachers would love that and that. You know everyone's different, not everyone is going to feel the same as me, but I just love being able to, you know, have my clients for that timeframe and be able to leave, be able to step outside of that overwhelming situation, be able to remove myself from the overstimulation. If that is what is happening.
Speaker 1:And I just think the flexibility that we have as OT these days really, really outweighs the flexibility that teachers have with school holidays. I know that school holidays is a huge, huge draw card for many, many people and I know that the idea of that would be really hard to leave and I totally, totally get that. But the flexibility in your everyday life with the variety of positions that are available for OTs, I think, outweighs school holidays any day the week, and the demand for OTs means we can be flexible. Them to man for OTs means we can, you know, have different working, working stages like take me, for example, two weeks on, one week off. I have a week off every two weeks. I know my situation is very unique, but I couldn't do that if I was a teacher. I had a class, you had students. I could not do remotely close to what I am doing. So it's something to keep in mind and I think the flexibility definitely, definitely contributes to reducing burnout.
Speaker 1:The second part of this question is we're working in a rural area where I live also increase the risk of burnout due to shortages. Now, this is a question that I think I've touched on a like a little tiny bit, but I've never really dived fully into it and it's definitely a misconception oh my God, I cannot pronounce my words today. Misconception is definitely a misconception that rural work leads to burnout. Now, I'm going to give the positive spin on this answer and I'm going to give, obviously, the practical spin on this answer. For those who don't know my history, I've spent majority of my career working really and advocating for the rural workforce. Now, positive spin on this is that you know you're like I said with the same the question before burnout will happen regardless of where you are located, if you don't have the right mindset, if you don't have the right support and if you're not in the right workplace for you and your personal needs within a workplace. The geographical location of your business, of your workplace, has nothing to do with whether you are going to burn out or not. That's the general, overarching answer. Now, as someone who, like I said, has lots of experience working really, I will also touch on the things that aren't common in metropolitan areas, that you will see that could definitely lead to a little bit of a burnout. So that's definitely two spins on this answer.
Speaker 1:One thing that is really important is, if you're working really and you live where you work, you will get to know people on a more personal level, and I really like this. When I worked in the back and lived in the back, I love that I got to see people you know out at community events. I loved that I got to see people down at the cafe and you really get to know their uncles and their aunties and their cousins and their friends and who they hang around and what their days look like and what their weekends, what they get up to on the weekends like. You really connect with people On a deeper level far more than when you see them for one hour a week or one hour a fortnight and you have a little bit chitchat in the waiting room. So that's obviously a positive. But when you are getting to know people on a deeper level, you are seeing the impact that their disability has. If you're working in the disability space, you are seeing the impact that it has on them on a greater level. You're seeing the impact that it has on their grandparents, because you know their grandparents and you chat to them about it at the cafe, obviously never breaching confidentiality. But the matter of it is that you will learn more and you will see more and you will feel that impact greater. So that is something to keep in mind when working really is that you really get deeper in the connections you have with these families and you know how important your services are and you know how important the lack of other services are and the impact that has on them as well.
Speaker 1:The other side of that is that some people wouldn't like that. You get that personal sort of connection, you can definitely withdraw from it. You don't have to go to community events if you're living there, but if it's your hometown or if it's where you've been living before you started working there, it's almost inevitable. So that can be tricky for people, knowing that you could run into your clients at any time. You could see them down the street, you could see them at the coffee shop when you're trying to switch off or on your day off or you know you're having a rough weekend. You know kids come up to the shops like.
Speaker 1:That can be hard if you don't get that time to switch off. And it all depends on the size of the town that you're living in. When I was living in Lightning Ridge, you know I think two and a half thousand people in the town and there's one shop, there's only two cafes, there's one pub. Like you, it was inevitable that you're going to see people and I found that tricky at the start because I was wondering how I could navigate that work life balance. But it all depends on your attitude and how you immerse yourself into the community and how you present yourself as well, but also keeping in mind that you have to present yourself a certain way at all times. You can't have a professional side and then you can't have a real wild side on the weekends, because your clients will see you and you know you absolutely. If you, if you must have a wild side, you can, but it's important to keep in mind that that will impact the perception your clients have on you and that may impact their receptiveness to your services and what you're trying to provide. Is that OK, like, should you be restricted in what you can and cannot do on the weekends? Absolutely not, but it's something to consider and that itself could lead to burnout.
Speaker 1:The other part of it which I think is so important is that you know rural areas are under resourced and that is really difficult in the sense that you know if your client needs to get a hearing test and they can't get a hearing test for six months, that is frustrating. If you know that your client needs a pediatrician diagnosis to keep their NDIS funding and the closest pediatrician is four hours away and they cannot get there and the telehealth pediatrician has a 12 month waitlist, like two year waitlist, whatever it might be, depending on where you are, that is frustrating. That leads to burnout. So it's all about your attitude and your approach and it's about knowing that there's going to be limitations. It's about knowing that rural areas are understaffed, are under resourced and there will be gaps in the service you can provide. But the other side of it is is you become so resourceful and you become such a generalist in so many areas and you learn about so many other professions and you liaise with so many different professionals all over the country through telehealth and through communications, and that side of it is really, really special and that's something that I really really love. So it's just reminding yourself that there will be gaps in the service that you can provide and there will be gaps in what you are able to achieve. You will have to get creative, you will have to make some tricky phone calls, you will have to be pushy and you will have to advocate to people living in the city, visiting once every eight weeks, thinking they know best, and that also is really really frustrating.
Speaker 1:As an outreach OT now like, obviously I'm living in Perth and I outreach to remote towns I try to be really, really conscious of my privilege in being a remote OT and sorry everyone, oh, my goodness, I try to be really conscious of my privilege, being based in the city and knowing that I have access to things that these kids don't have access to. And, yes, I'm able to drive out to these towns, but that doesn't mean that they had the ability to drive to the city. So I find that outreach services can sometimes be a little bit off putting to people in towns. And you know, I, as an OT that used to live in a remote town and they would be visiting services, that would come in and they would say, you know, they'll do an initial with the client and they'd say, all right, let's do this, this and this and we'll get this test done and we'll refer you to here, not really having that insight of what the town is actually like and often giving false hope to people. And then you, as the OT that's based in that town, having to, I guess, pick up the pieces and sort of bring things back to earth a little bit. So that was something else that I found frustrating time and time again. But when you're in a good workplace, there are supports for you for this. When you're in a good workplace, when you have the right mindset, it is just a part of the job and you really, really find ways to, I guess, overcome this and think of the positives as working really and knowing that you are making a difference, even when it feels like you're doing nothing at all. So I yeah, I hope that's an honest answer. I genuinely, genuinely think that there are more people burnt out in the cities than there are people burnt out really, but that's there's no fact to that at all and I can't give you any evidence behind that. That's just my personal opinion. But please, don't let working really deter you. It's incredible and we need more people that live really and are willing to travel to rural areas, to be really open and realistic in services that we can provide. So please, please, please, consider working really.
Speaker 1:That was a two part question, so I'm gonna take that as two and we're onto question number three. Ish, this question came in from a lovely listener as well, and she was asking how can she respectfully Resign from her position. She has feels like she's outgrown the position and this was a an ongoing conversation we had, so not really a short message that I can read, but the question yet was how can I resign without burning a bridge? And this is a really great question because I feel like in this podcast I've mentioned many, many times If you're not happy in a job, just quit. And I had a really, really, really great episode with live on our therapist talks episode now link it in the show notes as well. But she spoke about how she left her job to come to her current position now, and it was a position where there wasn't necessarily anything going wrong, there wasn't necessarily any bad blood, but she just knew it wasn't the right position for her. So it's definitely common.
Speaker 1:Obviously there are situations where you're not being treated nicely and I think sometimes you just gotta get out of there as quickly as you can, always trying to burn a bridge, but also putting yourself first if you need to. If you are in a situation where you need to resign from a job, potentially you're moving away. Potentially you are going on some extended leave. Potentially you're starting your own business like. There's lots of different reasons why this might be happening.
Speaker 1:Something that's really really important is to sort of keep the communication as open as possible. I, when I resigned from my job my main job that I was out for many years before I left to come to Western Australia, I think I gave like five months notice. We all knew it was coming. It was something that was a really open discussion. That meant that it could also be really open with clients. They weren't sort of blindsided and they weren't sort of shocked when it was time for me to leave and it's something that we're all able to prepare for together in terms of recruitment and in terms of yet making plans for my clients. For once I leave. Obviously, not everyone knows five months before they're leaving a job that they're going to leave a job and obviously there's not always that positive Connection with employers to be able to have those open dialogue conversations if you find that you are leaving somewhat immediately. So, whether it might be two weeks notice, four weeks notice based off your contract, I think the most important thing is to keep it as positive as possible in terms of your reasons for leaving.
Speaker 1:We all have issues with workplaces. We all have things that we would like to change. I think that's going to be evident in, you know, even the best workplaces, there's always things you want to change and if you're leaving a position and you're a little bit disgruntled and this is not in a situation where there's been mistreatment or like really obvious reasons to resign from a position this is just that general sort of like I'm a bit over this job, like could be better, I'm gonna have outgrown it, I'm going somewhere else. I think it's really important, especially if it's a workplace where there are other employees, when you know there's other services, like they might be speech there, there might be physio there there might be you know what. Whatever it might be, if you've got this sort of negative mindset it's really gonna rub off on those people around you.
Speaker 1:But it's important to rub off on to your clients when you're having those conversations with you about leaving and I think it's really important and you know that that clients don't know about the, I guess, in ongoing things that happen within a workplace and I'm not sure how to word that in a way that obviously, if there are bad things and it's a bad workplace and it's a bad environment for participants to be seeking their services, it's not really the situation, it's more just like that my boss doesn't really offer me this and I'm going somewhere else and whatever it might be like if those things sort of creep into conversations, not directly like I would imagine most people are gonna sit down with a parent and say, hey, billy Joe is is not offering me blah blah so I'm quitting, but it's more just your general tone and your general discussion about why you're leaving and that sort of positive upkeep that I think is really important just for the benefit of the other services that may be provided and those clients ongoing feeling of security within that workplace. So I hope that sort of makes sense. But I think another really important thing is your documentation. I would like to think, like if I'm an OT and I'm coming on board and I'm taking on board clients that have been seen by another OT, I just like what would you want to see? Obviously you're not going to have time to write a full report for every single client and if you've got that time and you're being paid to do that, then knock yourself out if you wish.
Speaker 1:But just think of like general handover, like general things that you would want to know, like is there a toy that this kid absolutely loves? And if I bring that out, that's going to build a rapport with him straight away, then let me know. Put it in a handover. Is there something that will trigger this child into a meltdown? And if I did that in my first session, they're probably going to have such a negative connotation of me. Let me know Is there different tips and tricks on how to really engage with the parents? We know that parents can be so diverse in how they respond to therapy. Is there ways that I can really positively build a relationship with that parent? Let me know.
Speaker 1:These things don't have to be in depth, these things don't have to take you time, but it's keeping in mind yeah, what would you like to know if you were coming into a new position? That's the sort of things you should be putting in your handover and just documenting conversations that you have with parents as well, making it really clear who knows you're leaving, who knows when your last day is, who have you yet to contact, who didn't really take the news well and might need a few extra conversations from the management or the owner of the business, keeping in mind that once you leave, they're likely not going to be able to contact you or they're likely not going to be wanting to bother you. So these are all things that, if you're respecting the workplace and you're wanting to keep it positive, that the more information you can give, the better. Obviously, in dire situations, if the relationship is still positive, they can reach out to you and it's nothing's ever the end of the world. But, yeah, keeping yourself in a positive light in the business's name is really important. I think that's a really, really easy way that you can do it and always just try to keep it as professional as possible, like I mentioned. And giving a really respectful amount of notice I think is important too, and that's going to look different for everyone depending on the situation, but this is just one of those things that's so circumstantial and I think it's just keeping in mind everyone else who you're leaving might affect and how you can make that as streamlined and as easy as possible for them.
Speaker 1:Another thing I wanted to add to this and I guess it's a bit of a side comment because it wasn't really what the question was about but if you're in a situation where you don't want to leave a position because you're worried about leaving the clients and you're maybe worried about what will happen when you go, and maybe there are different circumstances where you know that there's going to be no replacement for you or you know that the replacement that is there is not going to be, have your client's best interests at heart, which I would imagine is quite rare, but you know it always happens, and if you're in a situation where, yeah, you aren't leaving an unhealthy work environment because you are worried, I challenge you to think about what's that doing to yourself and what's that doing to your own engagement levels at work and your own job satisfaction. We are so empathetic as OTs and I've said that comment until I'm blue in the face this whole time I've had this podcast and that is our best and our worst qualities, because we are always putting everyone else ahead of us. And my overall career satisfaction has skyrocketed when I put my own needs and my own wants first, and it feels weird being selfish sometimes and it feels weird prioritizing myself, because it's not what we're really ingrained to do as empathetic people, but it's something that is what I know will allow me to stay in this career for many, many years to come. If I stayed in workplaces where I wasn't happy, if I stayed in workplaces that didn't suit my lifestyle or my needs purely because I was worried about the outcome for my clients once I left, then I'd be burnt out in five years and I'd be retraining something else or selling flowers on the side of the road, which would be also really fun, but probably not the best decision for me at this point in my life. So keep that in mind there will always be more clients for you to support, there's always more families for you to meet and there's always more people's lives who you are going to change. You don't have to pocket yourself to a certain group of people because, yeah, it's just not good for you in the long run. But I know it's also so much easier said than done, so don't think I'm taking this with a grain of salt, but keep that in mind. So, please, they are all the questions I am going to pump out for today's episode. I hope that was helpful for you.
Speaker 1:I didn't really prep too many of these answers, so I hope that I haven't missed anything. But, like I said, if I have, I will touch on them in another episode. And if there's anything that you would add and you would want these people that have sent in these questions to hear, also send me a message and I will do a follow up episode. But if you have questions for questionable, this will be the last one for 2023, but hey, news slash 2024 is in a hot little minute. It's so soon and I want to keep pumping out questionable episodes because I think they're really, really helpful. So let me know if you have any questions clinical questions, job questions, life questions, challenge me with a random question, I don't know. Give me something fun. Not that these weren't fun, I love these ones too. But yeah, let me know Some of your questions over on Instagram. If you don't follow me on Instagram, what are you doing? Holy, the OT underscore podcast. It's the place to be. Not really. I haven't posted much for the last few weeks, but I've got plans, guys. I always say I've got plans. Will I ever action these plans? That is another story, but get on over there. Questionable semi-questions, and we'll get on to them.
Speaker 1:Now, before we wrap this episode up, it is fun fact time, my favorite time of every episode where I share my most irrelevant to OT fun fact. Today's one's an interesting one. Could be false, like always to know, I get most of these off TikTok. But did you know that the amount of water in, on and above the planet Earth does not increase or decrease? It's always constant, which I guess makes sense because of like evaporation. But I always, just as a kid, was like oh, flushed my water down the toilet, it's gone or poured my water down the sink. It's gone and obviously, as I've come to be a mature adult, I know that that is not true. And yeah, I just guess I always thought water disappeared. So there's a fun fact there's a consistent amount of water and it ain't going anywhere. Actually, that's a lie, because what if icebergs melt? Does that not create more water? Or are I wonder if they're considering frozen icebergs as the water content? If someone could confirm nor deny my fun fact, let me know. But that's what TikTok said is my fun fact for the week. That'll do, I'm done. This could be, as I said, my last step for the year. It could not be.
Speaker 1:If you hear from me again, I can't wait. If you don't hear from me until 2024,. I've just decided to take holidays early. As always, we do not follow any sort of structure around here at HollyoT podcast and we likely never will. So have a great Christmas if I don't talk to you or talk to you soon. I think I've emphasized that enough. I don't need to repeat it again. But thank you so very much for tuning in, send in your questionable episodes, questionable questions for the next episode, and thank you to those who contributed to this questionable episode. I hope it was helpful for you. That was all in one breath. I'm having a nap, goodbye.