i chose my field of work because it's damned hard to export to a foreign country, not because of any deep love of the profession

the paycheck pays for the things i do care about

I'm a nurse, for context

Are you one of those coffin dancing nurses? I saw a smoking hot one on the interwebs a couple months ago.

if society and academia have taught me it's that if your not perfect your a worthless failure. it's based on the marxists idea that humans are perfectable. you have to learn to accept that your human, humans make mistakes, and therefore you will make mistakes. and that is natural and ok @ACE

i'm one of those cranky ER nurses who scares interns

@Tracey your my favorite kind

Scrubs before skirts... don't like it, but I feel you.

When I've never done sports and never actually did anything besides work on book stuff to get a 4.0 gpa in almost all my years, I've surely failed at becoming ready for the basics.

I can't even talk to people correctly most the time without insinuating anger

I remember a time when doctors and nurses didn't wear pajamas to work.

i dunno, I take a look at my own life mismanagements and then take a look at teenagers and go, Holy crap, look at me adultin' over here

@ACE you sound like me 5 years ago

exactly like me

I get that a lot these days

and i like wearing pajamas to work

we were all taught the same thing

It cuts me down with every reiteration.

the best part about working the night shift is coming home and having a beer at 7 am, walking across the street to get the mail, and all my day shift office working neighbors staring at me as they drive past en route to work, looking at me and going 'Chemex is an alcoholic, she's drinking beer at 7 am'

also, grilling after dawn

Could be worse. You could be like nurse Jackie.

lolol

I'll pretend to know who that is for the sake of not making myself look more dumb than five minutes ago

cuts you down? if anything that's hopeful! I have a 2yo I love I'm buying my own house in the coming weeks and my band (my dream) is starting to take off.

she was a character in a TV show, a nurse addicted to narcotics after getting a work related back injury (i think) - it's sort of like the nurse version of House

the point Ace is we are taught to be that way but we aren't doomed to it forever

i'd rather be nurse ratchett 😛

btw Ace I have no idea what they are talking about ether

@Alinpass (INFJ-T) It cuts me down because it reminds me of a false hope that people always give me despite me being the worst choice for any task.

@Tracey Also, I guess I'm too uncultured to know that show

Another bad thing to add to the list

voice of objectivity - again, it's statistically unlikely that you're the worst choice for everything

nurse jackie a story about a drug addicted slut who was really bitchy

my fiancee teases me about it - she watches TV at work, that wench

that's why I stopped watching tv

you want a cookie

@Tracey It would be statistically unlikely unless you saw my track record

she's a security engineer so she works from home, so she's got something usually going on another monitor

Bah, Ace - you're upright and chatting at us, you've managed to make it this far

@ACE if you were dead I'd say you were right,but you dont know the future and neither do I so stop pretending to know that you will fail.

as opposed to hiding in a blanket fort in your bedroom