I'll hop in here.
I'm a physician assistant who took a break from practice to help with family as my wife started her new career. Then we got pregnant. The we got pregnant again, so I stayed at home with the boys for a while.
As I had been out of practice for nearly 5 years, I've spent most of 2025 getting recertified, completing CME and applying to reactivate my license.
I just got word that my license has been approved for reactivation... provisionally. Unfortunately, one of the provisions is I cannot do remote work, which pretty much kills the job I had lined up with an old boss.
5 1/2 years in ortho surgery (foot & ankle), 2 1/2 years in general surgery with a focus on thyroid. I have no doubt I can get excellent letters of rec from my previous docs.
My wife is a CRNA, so hopefully I can establish some connections that way if the typical online applications fail, but I'm trying to cover all my bases. If anyone who works in the Austin area (I'm in Round Rock) is aware of any openings, feel free to DM me.