Waaaaahh!!!
OK, since you all love having me here so much :roll: and endlessly support me unconditionally, I have to vent my utter frustration with my current situation.
After many years of career success, financial security, etc, I've been struggling under a near-total meltdown - my last job both began and ended disastrously, I'm (nearly) broke, my Post-Concussion Syndrome symptoms have me nearly totally disabled, I'm unemployed (but looking), I'm living in someone else's house, and the entirety of my studio and musical instrument belongings are in storage. I haven't so much as strummed a chord in nearly 9 months.
In addition, Shania isn't returning my phone calls and Anne Hathaway keeps pretending she doesn't know who I am. :?
I'm feeling a lot of despair and anger lately. I've actually begun the occasional \"disconnect\", as the reality of my situation is just too bleak to deal with.
For many weeks, I've been trying to keep my chin up, stay positive, keep the faith, look forward to better days. I know that somewhere down the road I'll look back on all this and it'll be like a bad dream.
But right now, wallowing in the middle of it, it's pretty distressing. Even when I try to write songs about how things are now, they come out gloomy & depressing (not that I was ever very good writing lyrics... :oops:).
Will one of you guys please send Shania over to cheer me up!?! 8)
After many years of career success, financial security, etc, I've been struggling under a near-total meltdown - my last job both began and ended disastrously, I'm (nearly) broke, my Post-Concussion Syndrome symptoms have me nearly totally disabled, I'm unemployed (but looking), I'm living in someone else's house, and the entirety of my studio and musical instrument belongings are in storage. I haven't so much as strummed a chord in nearly 9 months.
In addition, Shania isn't returning my phone calls and Anne Hathaway keeps pretending she doesn't know who I am. :?
I'm feeling a lot of despair and anger lately. I've actually begun the occasional \"disconnect\", as the reality of my situation is just too bleak to deal with.
For many weeks, I've been trying to keep my chin up, stay positive, keep the faith, look forward to better days. I know that somewhere down the road I'll look back on all this and it'll be like a bad dream.
But right now, wallowing in the middle of it, it's pretty distressing. Even when I try to write songs about how things are now, they come out gloomy & depressing (not that I was ever very good writing lyrics... :oops:).
Will one of you guys please send Shania over to cheer me up!?! 8)
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Shania in Ojibwa means, \"on my way.\"
Go easy, not too much at first.
That's the best I can do, for now. She shares an Ojibwa heritage with me, and would know the \"Manitou Spirit\"... (sound of an Eagle cry)
so I'll put in a good word for you. :P
But Jim. Jack and Morgan are more than willing to help cheer or get you though... and if your lucky Morgan might bring his morganettes! 8)
You'll be in my prayers
Like the thread's subject suggests, I'm just whinin' and cryin' a bit. I'm a little depressed about this. This is unfamiliar, and VERY uncomfortable, territory for me - I've been unemployed ONCE, for about 8 months, in the last 16-17 years. I'm NOT diggin' it.
Thanks again guys. You're a bunch of gems. Even if you haven't bothered to set me up with Shania yet. :P
Oh yeah...I forgot. Your wife would surely not approve of you fondling cute nurses.
I'll gladly fill in.:twisted:
Good luck in the job hunt!
I know how tough it is, and the mortality rate of students. EMT-P myself.
Spent many years in Fire & Rescue, and regional SAR.
Best wishes to you Bro!
I worked in a Hopsittle for a few years, and it was insane with hot chix. The Nursing students were especially wild.
There you go Shredd...can you here your calling?
Paging abcd EMT 'tou ...Rescue Sx... 1033
For what it's worth, of the approximately 200 students that started Nursing school (LPN phase) with me, only 30 of us graduated. Of those 30, only 12 of us got admitted to RN Nursing School (about 300 applicants just for my class). We started out with 75 RN students (online and in-class) and graduated about 40. The online class lost more than half their students. In my in-class group, we lost 1 out 3 students. These are all highly educated, highly motivated, professional people. The mortality rate, like you said, is very high. It was the toughest program I ever went through.
Shredd, the ratio of male nurses to female nurses is now 1:9. Even if you throw out all the old crabby Nurse Ratched's, you still have lots of eligible young women. Most of them are pretty darn smart too. And, like you said, Nursing is a field that is in shortage for now and the expected future. They might not get paid the most money, but once you have a job, it's usually a pretty good profession.
Around here where I live, it's one of the better paying professions. Maybe you could hook up with a nice young nurse for more stability in your life? Who knows, if you look and act like a total wreck, you might just peak her desire to nurse you back to health (financially, emotionally, etc....). It might be a plan.....
That's exactly what I need. I lovely young Cindy Crawford lookalike with big brown eyes to lovingly care for me.
Actually, I always saw myself in the office world - spending my workdays doing the breast stroke in the steno pool... :shock:
But yeah, the nursing biz is very good. The demand is huge, and while all the jobs are not great, at least they're THERE.
I know a woman who does the traveling nurse thing - she gets a 6 or 12 month contract to be a nurse at such n such a place, then goes wherever she wants to next and takes a contract there.
Plus, she's gorgeous. If only she actually liked me...:?
And I'd be curious as to why the washout rate is so high - I'm sure it's a tough program, but perhaps there's a lot of loser wannabe/delusional types enrolling at the start?
No doubt when students first enter Nursing in our LPN phase, they really don't know what to expect and how hard the work will be. Hence, we start with 200 in the classes and go down to a graduation number of 30-40 students in that LPN phase.
In the RN Nursing School, it's a different thing entirely. In our RN school, everyone is already a licensed LPN and knows what the deal is. We had over 300 LPN applications for 45 seats. Only 31 of us graduated. It's not like those who did not graduate are dumb, losers, or wannabes. Our minimum passing grade is 80%. To give you an idea, thats about only 4 wrong on a chapter test. To put it in another perspective, in the RN class for Med-Surg, our class average was 78% at midterm and only 83% at graduation. It is not hard to see that if the class average is close to that 80% minimum passing grade, that half the class is failing. We had some nurses that have been practicing for 20 years as LPNs failing tests and crying out in the hallway. It was really stressful, especially the last year studying in RN school.
But I was in an accelerated program to get my RN license as fast as I could. I don't know what 4 year University Nursing programs are like. My instructors that did attend 4 year Universities said that school there was tough, but they did have more time to digest the material.
The final thing that I learned is that the instructors really do not care if the students pass or fail. They are ultimately judged by how well the graduating students do on our NCLEX-RN exam. So, if they fail half the class but the remaining students do very well on the NCLEX-RN license exam, the teachers and administration get rewarded. If the instructors passed almost all the students in the class, but a number of us failed the NCLEX-RN exam, then the instructors and the program would be put on probation. So, from the instructors' point of view, it's much better to fail a student in the class and only have the remaining \"strongest\" students graduate to take the license test. Nobody from the school cares how many students get washed out in the program. The school and the instructors are only judged by how many graduating students pass the license exam. Until that focus changes, and the number of students graduating out of the program is measured and evaluated in addition to the pass rate for the NCLEX-RN license exam, the school is better off failing students. Sad, but true.
Just try to survive them. Lost a lotta good men at the Hospital.
Pace yourself....but at least they'll bandage you afterward...or give you a suave.
One time I made a big mistake of flashing my biceps at the Nurses, after a hernia operation. :shock: I should have been moved to the Trauma Ward.
Barely got out alive that time.
One time I rode my Hog cross country, mostly with no helmet or bandanna.
My lips were chapped and cracked, and my face was wind burnt crispy.
I took a Bee in the face. That swelled my upper cheek real gnarly, and one eye was swollen shut. It didn't stop me.
I think chix like gargoyles. Of course you still have to act like a gentleman, or they'll flee from you. :P
..very charming shredd, but I didn't find that move in 'the book'...I'll write it in !
I know a good portion of the nurses at the local hospital, no small amount either...tough group, hard working and intelligent. Musicians are probably the first group of males that get 'no play'...
Anybody notice that nurses as a group tend to be a bit overweight ?
I think it's rampant in medical care in general...or am I wrong ?
Depends on the age of the nurse and lifestyle, of course. I will say that working a late shift, or overnight shift, leaves you eating \"supper\" when you get home at midnight, or 8 am, and then you immediately go to bed. Not the best practice to keep your weight down. I compare it to a musician who plays all night, packs up the gear, and rolls into home about 3-4 am. Have a bite to eat and go to bed. After awhile, you start to put on weight.
On the plus side (pun intended), at least they are making enough money to buy food. I remember my old college days where money was short and food was not always my first priority. Besides, a healthy body is biologically designed to pack on weight in case of lean times. Our body wants to store fat in case it is needed later on. I figure I got a good few months of storage built up with minimal intake, so I won't throw stones at others fighting their weight problems.
Up north, we are Hunters. You grow up learning how to bag your prey.
When your prey is in range, you will always miss, if you look at the whole target.
You have to focus on a small spot on the target, then hold your breath, and squeeze one off.
Remember to do that, and you may bag more game.
Pick a [small] spot...
don't look at the whole target!
Hold your breath.
Squeeze. (not pinch)
Oh ya, I remember.
[Dudley Dooright no.1]
Psst..how aboot after this, I take you oot and aboot
for a romantic dinner and a movie?...eh?
[Dudley Dooright no.2]
Ya you betcha... doncha know, eh.
[Shania]
Knock it off you hosers.
[Shania]
\"I can't wait to lose you hosers and get out of this hott dress, and back to shredd in the hot tub...\" 8)
If you Google Shania in a hot tub....you come up with a link to Shredd.
Good-bye Canada
I'm leaving you for Shredd's hot tub.
Yes I love you...but yer too freaking cold!