On a good shift, yes, we have down time. My current job I am usually lucky and get time to sit around, but it's not generally as relaxing as you'd think because at any time I need to be up and out the door within 90 seconds, so I'm always mentally in go mode.
My last job I didn't do 24s, but I did do 16s, and I had to work a lot of OT to pay rent, so it was not uncommon for me to work 6 days/80 hours a week and I definitely did not spend time sitting around the station. I was almost always out running calls. I'd come home, sleep for 3/4 hours and be out the door again to work.
Not trying to do the suffering one-upsmanship. I've had to do clinical shifts in the ER for my schooling and I hated every moment of it. I don't think you could pay me enough to work in a hospital, it's not my thing. I have deep respect for my nursing homies, I love them and always have had a great working relationship with them. OP commented that they don't know any other jobs with such ridiculous working requirements so I added two.
I was at the gym the other week and this trio of tiny elderly ladies who all were well under 5 ft in stature and were dressed like grannies were walking around looking at all the equipment clearly trying to figure it out and occasionally taking turns giving it a try. I was trying so hard not to be rude and stare but they were so adorable and it made my day watching them
I had a work vehicle break down on me too once. It was the middle of the shift, gorgeous spring day, mild temperature, fresh spring air, a nice breeze, and we were in farmlands so we had a lovely view. My coworker was fuming at having to sit and wait for fleet to come rescue us, but I was happily chilling and enjoying getting paid to sit, enjoy the weather, and not be able to work.
Oh, I'm so sorry about your cat! It's so hard when they're suffering. I cry just thinking about the inevitable end someday, I don't know how I'm going to get through it when it happens, my cats are all I have.
I work 24 hour shifts. It's great! I love it, because I only have to work 2 days a week and have off the rest of the time. On the other hand, that shitty feeling you have when you start your shift and go "well, I just gotta get through X more hours then I can go home"? I gotta get through 24 more hours before I get to go home. It sucks.
Thankfully the cat did not get the Adderall. He does not need the Adderall. Luckily I went to take my pill first so I had an extra hand free to pop his mouth open and as I was putting it in my mouth my brain kicked in and went "why is your Adderall blue and not pink?" That's when I realized that I was about to take his Prozac and give him my Adderall. The last thing I need is to be more tired and the last thing he needs is to be more hyper.
A new coworker recently asked me the age of my cat. When I told him my cat is almost 10 he said "aw, that's so sweet, you have a nice calm senior cat." I got home from work and that night my cat was being his normal self, tearing all over the apartment, laying on his back flipping his toys around and ferociously trying to murder them, and "helping" me sort paperwork by grabbing random papers from the stacks and running away with them. I couldn't stop laughing, I was like hey bud, didn't you know you're supposed to be a calm senior?
My cat takes Prozac for depression. I take Adderall for ADHD. I was once running on about an hour of sleep after work and school, was frantically racing around getting my shit together so I could run out the door to get to another 16 hour shift of work, grabbed his Prozac and my Adderall, kneeled down to pop his Prozac in at the same time I popped my Adderall and damned near made a VERY horrible error. Taught me to slow the fuck down.
Idk, I had a rental with a lane departure and it almost made me crash. I was on the highway, turned my turn signal on to indicate I wanted to change lanes, waited a second or two, began turning into the other lane to make the change, and the fucking thing activated and forcefully slammed me back into the lane I had been in, despite the fact that my turn signal was on and no other cars were close to me. I almost lost control and immediately disabled it and left it disabled.
I've heard some fascinating propaganda about Americans, but this is new. What about the colder parts of Europe or Asia? Why only North America? Does this only occur above a certain latitude? If you move from a warmer climate to a cooler climate, does your body naturally adapt and how long does it take? With global warming, will everyone suddenly start shitting more and think they're dying? The sewage systems will explode because they won't be able to adapt to millions of people suddenly shitting daily instead of weekly.
Hand washing dishes sometimes does the trick. The extended amount of time in the soapy water with soap that's meant to cut grease, combined with the movement of actually washing the dishes will often help break down the dirt and push it out.
I've never dealt with that, but I worked night shift for a long time and so I've worked when daylight savings time happened and stopped happening and run calls during that time shift. Usually you just note it when making report at the hospital and then when you are writing the chart you manually adjust the time so the computer is happy and lets you close your chart (so you keep things linear, even if it then means your documented times aren't actually accurate as to when things happen) and write a note in your chart that the call occurred during the time shift of daylight savings times and that anything that is time stamped after XXXX actually occurred at XXXX.
I think so. I work in EMS and we use 24 hr. All my clocks and devices are set to 24 hr and I am irritated when I can't change them off the 12 hr clock. It's safer, if I tell you a medication was last administered at 10:00 there's room for error, but if I tell you it was given at 2200 there's no confusion.
I don't get it. If I somehow ended up with enough money to not have to work the rest of my life I'd buy a decently nice house and and a newer sedan so that it's reliable, keep working part time in my field because I genuinely love it, spend more time on my hobbies, and do all the traveling I've been dreaming of but too broke to do my entire life.
If I had a ludicrous amount of money I'd have a serious thought about how many normal people I could help and how and who I wanted to help. I'd love to set up a scholarship fund for adults going back to school (any school), but I'd also love to help adults in underdeveloped nations starting a business, and I'd love to work with medical charities, and I'd love to help underprivileged children get educated, and there's so many things I'd love to do to help people's lives get better.
Scheming on how to steal more money from ordinary people would be the last thing on my list!
I have discord but I only use it to talk to a relative who doesn't like traditional texting and because some of the help guides for mods are solely on discord.
I had an Instagram and a Facebook years ago and deleted them. Recently I realized I was missing out on updates, information, and job postings related to both my job and my hobbies that are only posted on mainstream social media, so I made an Instagram that so far has zero posts, not even a profile picture, and I don't have it installed on my phone, only on a tablet that stays at home and doesn't have personal info stored on it. I'm still missing out on a lot that's only posted on Facebook but the amount of dread I have when I think about going back into that cesspool has so far kept me away.
The earlier parts of the game were so beautiful. I played last year and spent so much time walking around, doing all the side quests and clearing the map. Got up to the frozen parts and was like meh, it's pretty but after the other parts? Finished the main quest and called it a game.
When I was in my early 20s I was near tears in my doctors office telling her that the health issues I was dealing with were ruining my quality of life and that I was so exhausted and in so much pain all the time that all I could do was go to work and come home and go straight to bed and had been like that for months. I was near suicidal and extremely depressed. She said "stop being dramatic, you could have cancer".
Two kinds of medications are given during surgery. One is a sedative/painkiller (sometimes additional meds are given for pain). It sedates the patient and "puts them under". Another is a paralytic. It paralyzes the patient, so that they don't have a gag reflex and can be safely intubated and their airway can be managed while they are sedated and not breathing properly on their own. When they wake up during surgery and can't move it's because the sedative part failed but the paralytic is still working.
On a good shift, yes, we have down time. My current job I am usually lucky and get time to sit around, but it's not generally as relaxing as you'd think because at any time I need to be up and out the door within 90 seconds, so I'm always mentally in go mode.
My last job I didn't do 24s, but I did do 16s, and I had to work a lot of OT to pay rent, so it was not uncommon for me to work 6 days/80 hours a week and I definitely did not spend time sitting around the station. I was almost always out running calls. I'd come home, sleep for 3/4 hours and be out the door again to work.
Not trying to do the suffering one-upsmanship. I've had to do clinical shifts in the ER for my schooling and I hated every moment of it. I don't think you could pay me enough to work in a hospital, it's not my thing. I have deep respect for my nursing homies, I love them and always have had a great working relationship with them. OP commented that they don't know any other jobs with such ridiculous working requirements so I added two.