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Author Topic: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)  (Read 9025 times)

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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #45 on: October 17, 2007, 09:33:15 pm »
She's a nurse. She's worked in the public or semi-public sphere her entire life. She worked as the head of a floor of nurses until I was a teenager then she moved on to be one of the supervisors for the local county health. Steady jobs, stable jobs. Fields where there aren't enough people to fill all the needed positions to begin with.

She just... I guess she sees academia as equivalent, maybe it WAS when she was young I dunno, and she can't be talked out of it.
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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #46 on: October 17, 2007, 10:16:39 pm »
For the sake of us with office jobs, keep her in nursing. At my job we have lots of former nurses and former RTs and they suck in an office environment. They always want to bend rules and extend deadlines to "help people out." Which royally sucks ass for those of us who have to deal with the wreckage after some nice RT chooses not to fail a place for failure to meet deadlines.

It's such a problem that our new software next year will automatically fail people without intervention.
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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #47 on: October 17, 2007, 11:17:55 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on October 17, 2007, 09:33:15 pm
Fields where there aren't enough people to fill all the needed positions to begin with.

Academia is the absolute opposite of that. On this planet, anyway.
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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #48 on: October 17, 2007, 11:33:40 pm »
My mom thought I should be a teacher or -- get this -- a novelist.  Seriously. 

My dad is a teacher.  He doesn't want me to be a teacher.  He wouldn't be disappointed or anything, but he thinks I can do better.  I mean, my brother's a teacher and Dad's down with that.  He just hates that Bro has to deal with the bullshit of teaching Dad knows so well. 

He's cool with me being a prof someday, though.  Basically he just wants me to do well for myself.  And keep having babies.  He's big into grandkids now. 

Still hell of nags me about graduate school, though. 
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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #49 on: October 17, 2007, 11:52:54 pm »
my parents basically have always assumed that I will enter a career which I really enjoy, which will not earn me very much money, and which will not really be something which accomplishes anything for society at large. Something pretty insane and illogical? I don't know.
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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #50 on: October 19, 2007, 10:23:57 am »
The "You been here 4 hours" guy is John Pinnette.
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Re: So good... suuuuch a private place... (10/16/07)
« Reply #51 on: October 19, 2007, 12:58:43 pm »
Quote from: Lister on October 19, 2007, 10:23:57 am
The "You been here 4 hours" guy is John Pinnette.

Ah. I did a Google image search on Frank Caliendo and he looked sort of how I remembered John Pinnette looking. But clearly they are different people.
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