big nasty
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 Hmmm it ain't that shabby!
Ok, I have done just about every crap job out there! I have been inside grease vents longer than 200 yard to clean them for hours with just enough room to wriggle your way onward. Been a blue shirt in the Navy (for those who have been there you know what i am talking about) in the winter on the Korean Sea. Sat on the aft end of the flight deck in the Persian Gulf sucking in all the exhaust fumes from all the aircraft preparing to launch 160° in the shade for 16-18 hours shifts and you have to eat before and after work. Ok ok ok, not going to go on, but you get the point. I have been abused. I am not sure of what hellacious hospitals you guys have been working at, but nursing ain't too shabby! Dude, your in a air conditioned environment, you get lunch, you get paid by the hour, they always have fresh coffee, you can alway get overtime. Yea, there be some bitches in the profession, but tell me what profession doesn't have them? When you can tell me that, I guess I am ready to die cuz I will have then heard it all. Here is some words if wisdom for all that feel that the job is too hard or "crappy"
DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL!
Serious guys/girls, what the hell, if someone wants to talk behind someone elses back, screw it, who gives a rats ass? Hell you can even have fun with it like do some very odd action that will not compromise your employment but really get people talking about you, I have put myself in tear of laugher doing this, you should try it, but don't tell a soul what and why you are doing it.
Additionally, screw being a staff nurse, agency is where it's at baby! I learned real quick in my career this point. When I first started, I noticed that during the tax season all the nurses were chit chatting at the nurses station about what they pulled in during the last tax year. Average staff nurse = $ 50 K Average agency = $ 100K Oh, but then you'll get the whole "Oh, but staff gets benefits!" LOL, what a load of crap, YOU REALLY BELIEVE THIS!
Good God, think about the mutual funds/bonds/CD's and health insurance that you could buy OF YOUR CHOICE with and extra $50K
Here is just an FYI for the nurse that believes that nursing sucks (which it does, but all jobs essentially suck so . . .) If the institution that you are employed at or are considering employment at has a lot of agency nurses or has 12 hours shifts, don't consider employment there! Why???? Cuz 12 hour shifts should be an option, not a mandation. 12 hours shifts were created, because the institution can employ less nurses (cuz no one wants to work there for whatever reason, but get the job there and you will see why shortly after) Hypothetically speaking: why would a hospital pay a agency nurse $50/hour and a staff nurse $25/hour? BECAUSE THE PLACE SUCKS and has trouble finding and keeping staff, what other reason is there? ??? there is a bizarre influx of pt's??? Come on people, open your eyes, it is never too late to learn.
I am riding a gravy train here! Man, I sing and dance for my patients while giving the best nursing care anyone has to offer. Yeah, they think I am crazy, but they love every second of it, and request me everyday they are there, they drive for hours back to the hospital after they are "released into the wild" just to give me gifts and food. Hmmm, no one else that I work with seems to get these gifts. Wonder why? Because most of them are apathetic, complacent, hum-drum, hate their lives, hate their jobs, hate themselves, hate their pt's people.
Guys, you can make a killing in this profession while having a hell of a time doing it. First, don't kill yourself doing 12's unless your like myself and have had serious crappy jobs before. Second, it is where you live, not the profession. Example: I would choose to live anywhere in the south, than somewhere in the North like MN, WI, IA, ND, SD, etc. Sorry if I offend anyone, but those peeps are butt heads! I lived up there for one year, and I felt like committing harry carry, even the supposed sweet little old ladies were a bunch of @)#%*. I wouldn't take a nursing job up there in the summer for $100 an hour! Come down south, maybe even to the dirty south, you will find Southern comfort here that you will definately appreciate! Hey, it is worth a try, don't let your nursing career be a sunk cost. Roll wit it baby, do what feels natural! And everyday say this prayer "God help me be the man my dog thinks I am!"
-the Great White Big Nasty-
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04-27-2005 05:28 AM
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