Seriously Considering A J.O.B

[valerian]

I'm in the same boat! Don't know what I want to be when I grow up! My Aunt who is 64 just got a job a few months ago at a thrift store operated by the hospital in the town where she lives. She likes it a lot! She gets to go through the stuff before it goes out and she gets anything she wants for half price I believe. She also gets one free meal per week in the hospital cafeteria if she wants that. There are a couple of other perks too I think.

Just a note...my family could never understand why I liked one of my college jobs as a cashier in a drug store better than my "real" job when I graduated (which was as an operating room nurse). The cashier job was relaxing to me. I enjoyed putting stock out. Being a nurse was a horrible job that left me plagued with migraines and fibromyalagia and CFS. I hated it from day one! Money is nothing if you hate what you do!

[brenda67]

I'm in the same boat! Don't know what I want to be when I grow up! My Aunt who is 64 just got a job a few months ago at a thrift store operated by the hospital in the town where she lives. She likes it a lot! She gets to go through the stuff before it goes out and she gets anything she wants for half price I believe. She also gets one free meal per week in the hospital cafeteria if she wants that. There are a couple of other perks too I think.

Just a note...my family could never understand why I liked one of my college jobs as a cashier in a drug store better than my "real" job when I graduated (which was as an operating room nurse). The cashier job was relaxing to me. I enjoyed putting stock out. Being a nurse was a horrible job that left me plagued with migraines and fibromyalagia and CFS. I hated it from day one! Money is nothing if you hate what you do!

Wow...Being a RN could open sooooo many door's for you at least in my area..You could work in a Nursing home and deal with less stress depending on what your position you take...May I ask why you didn't like your job?

[valerian]

OR nurses apparently have a rep as being b*tches and I can definitely see that about them! They would deliberately sabotage other women's cases by hiding instruments that had been pulled for those cases, by telling tales to surgeons to try to turn them against certain people if they didn't like them, by talking sweetly to the faces of patients when they were awake and then talking trash about them once they went under, etc. Evil, evil women! They did this type of stuff to anyone they didn't like. They didn't like me 'cause I was the only one with a four year, nursing degree and because my mother was the Director of Nursing for the hospital where I worked. I was the favorite of the top general surgeon and he requested me for his cases. It was just jealousy on their parts. Some of the surgeons were asses though suffering from major "I am God!" syndrome and I got sick of that. There were affairs galore going on in the OR and all of the drama associated with that. There were many things really...too many to list here so I got very tired of it. No lie, but my head would start hurting as soon as I went into the building and clocked in! I had to get out of it before I flipped out and clobbered somebody. Oh, and I hated call and I hated it when they eliminated call and made a nurse and scrub tech just stay in the OR for 12 hour shifts on weekends at the mercy of whatever surgeon wanted to get away from his family or whatever and decided to do elective surgery during what was supposed to be emergency surgery time only. It didn't matter whether we got to sleep or eat or even go pee. I called someone in the state capital about the lack of even a 15 minute break and was told that employers could work you for 12 hours straight without ANY kind of break at all even to go to the bathroom. That's a crock! Anyway I don't miss it at all! I would starve to death before I'd go back.