Re: btp and the rainbow surprise
11-10-2011, 06:22 AM
Ah the little mistakes that make life exceedingly frustrating.
so I have learned a great deal from my job. It's helped me get more comfortable around people, more friendly, and most importantly it has taught me that I do not want to keep my job.
Damnit I just did this thing I do sometimes with the drawers on my desk where I pull one out but then it doesn't go back in right and now I have to fiddle with it for like five minutes hold on
Okay.
They are back in.
Anyway I work in a hospital. See I had the bright idea late in my varied college career that I should put all my career fish into the exceedingly competitive medical field bucket. (specifically Physician Assistants which are a lot like doctors only they aren't. they assist them.) Now medicine isn't really my passion but whatever, I like the people interaction (I find it terrifying though and sometimes incredibly emotionally draining but again whatever.)
So turns out PA's have to get this thing called "WORK EXPERIENCE" in order to really have a competitive application. Fine by me, I'll just spend some time after graduation working in a hospital. Hospitals love college educated individuals with generic degrees and piss-poor gpa's right? (have I mentioned that I don't have many fish to put into my bucket to begin with? I have few fish. There is a fishtank in my room that is empty but that isn't really related (although once it is not empty it will be awesome and Ill share pictures but that my be a really long while).
TURNS OUT THAT THEY DO NOT. (hospitals liking college grads I mean)
Apparently the medical field is really big on this whole "certifications" thing. They'll hire a person with a GED and a certification way faster than a college grad with a smile and a diploma. So excessively long story cut down to size. I got an EMT certification and then a job in a hospital. As a Nurse Assistant.
They have other names for it, orderly, CNA, PCA (I go by PCA). It's one of those jobs where they sit you down when you are interviewing and confirm that you are aware that you will indeed have to wipe ass. That in fact ass wiping will be just one of the plethora of disgusting bodily tasks you will have to help invalid patients perform.
Now of course, there are lots of other things here and in the long run, when I look back on it, there is a feeling of satisfaction in helping these people who need help. It is the reason I've worked there for months , plural, and also the reason that, were I not a college educated individual, I would probably not mind continuing to work there as I got my education.
But that's hindsight (hind sight? rear view? looking back?), when I wake up in the morning and I look ahead I think: Today I will have to wipe someone's butt. There is a possibility that I will be shat on. I need a moment to be okay with this.
I am saying this because I have recently been feeling a good deal of work-related angst lately, and I have deemed this the proper time and place to bitch about it.
Though I am pretty sure you guys have jobs too. Or have had jobs? You should complain about them if you want. Share stories. I will be sharing mine.
so I have learned a great deal from my job. It's helped me get more comfortable around people, more friendly, and most importantly it has taught me that I do not want to keep my job.
Damnit I just did this thing I do sometimes with the drawers on my desk where I pull one out but then it doesn't go back in right and now I have to fiddle with it for like five minutes hold on
Okay.
They are back in.
Anyway I work in a hospital. See I had the bright idea late in my varied college career that I should put all my career fish into the exceedingly competitive medical field bucket. (specifically Physician Assistants which are a lot like doctors only they aren't. they assist them.) Now medicine isn't really my passion but whatever, I like the people interaction (I find it terrifying though and sometimes incredibly emotionally draining but again whatever.)
So turns out PA's have to get this thing called "WORK EXPERIENCE" in order to really have a competitive application. Fine by me, I'll just spend some time after graduation working in a hospital. Hospitals love college educated individuals with generic degrees and piss-poor gpa's right? (have I mentioned that I don't have many fish to put into my bucket to begin with? I have few fish. There is a fishtank in my room that is empty but that isn't really related (although once it is not empty it will be awesome and Ill share pictures but that my be a really long while).
TURNS OUT THAT THEY DO NOT. (hospitals liking college grads I mean)
Apparently the medical field is really big on this whole "certifications" thing. They'll hire a person with a GED and a certification way faster than a college grad with a smile and a diploma. So excessively long story cut down to size. I got an EMT certification and then a job in a hospital. As a Nurse Assistant.
They have other names for it, orderly, CNA, PCA (I go by PCA). It's one of those jobs where they sit you down when you are interviewing and confirm that you are aware that you will indeed have to wipe ass. That in fact ass wiping will be just one of the plethora of disgusting bodily tasks you will have to help invalid patients perform.
Now of course, there are lots of other things here and in the long run, when I look back on it, there is a feeling of satisfaction in helping these people who need help. It is the reason I've worked there for months , plural, and also the reason that, were I not a college educated individual, I would probably not mind continuing to work there as I got my education.
But that's hindsight (hind sight? rear view? looking back?), when I wake up in the morning and I look ahead I think: Today I will have to wipe someone's butt. There is a possibility that I will be shat on. I need a moment to be okay with this.
I am saying this because I have recently been feeling a good deal of work-related angst lately, and I have deemed this the proper time and place to bitch about it.
Though I am pretty sure you guys have jobs too. Or have had jobs? You should complain about them if you want. Share stories. I will be sharing mine.