I’m worried I won’t be able to convince the dealers when I’m 88 that I am not a cop.

You can explain it for them but you can’t understand it for them.

Veinetta mentioned!!

The marketing worked on me for SURE but not my parents so I only had this like once at a friends house.

Only a year? Cries in Silo, Severance, Pluribus, etc.

Wait haven’t you ever had to go to like, the DMV or a Walmart, or a CVS at 11pm? I’m not saying the professions are filled with dummies but the cross section of public you encounter there is sure to have a few dummies.

Raised Catholic and I took it quite seriously in high school. I even gave out communion after I was Confirmed. A couple of things and I can’t point to the strongest one. But here are a few. All these happened between last couple years of high school and being in my early 20s.

The movie Dogma

Sitting in a really opulent church while a collection basket was passed around. I actually started crying, because of the hypocrisy of it all. The way my dad rolled his eyes at me when I tried to explain my upset.

Leaning in to the questioning feelings id had for a long time but had pushed down because it was sinful and I really just wanted to be good. But once I explored those feelings, it got easier to let go.

It probably took me 5-6 years before I felt freedom from religion and I still have weird hangups that will stay with me forever i suspect, and I’m in my mid-40s.

Yeah during Covid you should have seen my inbox, recruiters offering like $12000 sign on bonus for 9 week contracts, like $4000 a week in rural New York or Florida. But I had fucked off to Norway by then so, wasn’t for me. And I’ll never work as a nurse anywhere but California anyway (until the other states follow suit and mandate safe staffing by law).

I’ve never known a thirstier bunch of people until I was a nurse, and I used to wait tables. Like surely you’re not going through this much liquid at home.

It depends on several factors, the staffing company, specialty, etc. but yeah they probably make a little more, but there is the trade-off of longer shifts, health coverage (mine was 100% covered by the HMO I worked for), and workplace culture. But even staff nurses had opportunities for extra shifts or staying extra to make a little more money. My base pay was good enough the thought of staying one more minute over almost never appealed to me, though.

ITT: Everyone is exploited, but not as badly as my profession is. Stop crying.

There are probably many more minds that could hack being a good doctor, but are smart enough to go into a field where the work-life balance hasn’t been a terrible trope since 1900. I think I could have been a good doctor but from a very young age I remember it seeming like the time wasn’t worth it.

That being said, I did end up becoming an RN, and I’ll say that my program is probably not unlike others in the US where sacrifice and fucking martyrdom reign supreme. Like wouldn’t you do anything to help your patient? Lose sleep, skip breaks, skip meals? If you don’t, whooo wiiiiilll???

Your downvotes are all nurse administrators and bed control. Bullies. Because who else would argue that hospital staff is not exploited, honestly.

When I worked as a nurse in CA, the standard for shifts was 8 hours, we had 3 shifts in 24h. Some travel nurses took 12h shifts, but staff RN had 8s. Not saying we never made mistakes, but it can be done with proper staffing (4 patients to hand off instead of say, 7) and a culture that respects the handoff time. We did it at the bedside in most cases so the patient could hear what was going on. In CA there are strong unions advocating for patient safety, and as a result, minimizing exploitive working conditions. We were still exploited to be sure, but not like if you’d dropped that hospital in any other state without those protections. Pay was outstanding as well.

Strong unions are the answer to this problem, at least for nurses/support staff. Idk about docs and residency but that is a big part of why becoming a doc never seemed attainable to me.

If not for the papercuts, big agree. It could’ve been anything improbable. Why that. It did the job of making the audience uncomfortable but at what cost.

Husband and I camped out for the Wii when it first came out, at Target, I think it was Black Friday? Somehow everyone in line caught wind of how many were being stocked. So we were like number 16 in line or something and they had something like 20-25. so once everyone knew pretty much where they were, we all just hung out, and occasionally went to our cars for warmth and back in line after a while without any drama. It was a bit hectic once the doors opened but they queued us in kind of separately if I remember right, so it was pretty orderly. Nothing too cutthroat.

I’ve never read this book, only heard accolades. But this synopsis and review makes me never want in on this action. If this is an accurate synopsis, how was this ever published? The example passage sounds like a low-literate 4th grader wrote it.

Wow haha thanks for the info!

Kelly Clarkson covered Taylor Swift’s Better Man in her TV show a couple of years ago and it was an entirely different song. Like she felt it in her bones. She elevated it.

Postal Service turned Such Great Heights from a low-fi, indie-folk coffee shop vibe (originally done by Iron & Wine) into 100% millennial optimism pop.

Hilary & Hayley Duff covered Our Lips Are Sealed and I’m just kidding that one was actually terrible.

Retirees are using money they saved, SS, pension etc that they earned during their working years, and I understand NEETs to be adults young and capable but disinterested in working/training, whether they have income/savings/pushover parents/sugar-parents.

I will never know that kind of progress. I love that song but I cannot listen to it without crying, it’s so sad.