Spring Cleaning

Upsides:
I can see areas of floor I haven't seen in months.
The Cat has the rips, because there is now a runway through one room that used to be piles of piles.
I've got stuff I forgot I had.
Including my ARRL study guides. This year I start working on tickets, I swear.

Downsides:
I'm not 18 any more.
Neither is my back.
I'm running low on Motrin today.
Tomorrow, I'm going to pay for this. Heavily.

Okay, For Real This Time

So, instead of working at Sketchy Ghetto General Hospital, I'm at the sister hospital, Barrio Knife & Gun Club. Oh, and they're short again tonight. And tomorrow. And maybe Monday too?
(Funny how the staff sick calls always pile in on three-day weekends. Just a coincidence, for certain.)
And an interview for a long-term position somewhere else on Tuesday.
It's better to be feared than loved, but it's better to be loved than panhandling.

Upsides:
1) Nights. No Good Idea fairies, no labcoat leaders, no clipboard commandos.
No b.s., just get 'em in, patch 'em up, and get 'em out.
What could possibly go wrong...?

2) Job security, unless people stop acting stupid and self-nominating for Darwin Awards.
(IOW, Never Going To Happen, Adam/Eve-now, inclusive.)

3) Two people in charge I worked with for a decade, up until 5 years ago, and hadn't seen since. In fact, both were proto-nurses then, and now they're in charge.

Okay, it's not like that, and one of them I pushed to get the education to get paid what he was worth, and he did it. Kind of gratifying, actually.
(Lesson: ER is a very small pond, if you leave yours you find out. So you might want to treat your reputation as your life jacket, and not mangle it. Would suck to interview for a job and find out the person with hire/fire authority is that bridge you burned up consequence-free - or so you thought - 5-10 years ago, and find out "Not so much".)

4) Oh, the future stories I'm going to get out of this!

Downside:
1) New kid in school. Again.

2) Another horrible Electronic Medical Record that's a walking disasterpiece. (Thanks, ObozoCare!)
Write this on your hands in permanent laundry marker Sharpie in case you forget:

Every medical worker, doctors, nurses, techs, administration, is absolutely convinced that *their* EMR is the worst one ever inflicted on mortal man.
They are ALL correct.

So, as Leon Askin said in One, Two, Three*: "Two to one: Plan carries."

Anyways, I'm going to be a bit busier for a bit, as I get back on the hamster wheel non-stop for awhile.

's okay, though. I'm going to need the new muscles to carry those heavy paychecks to the bank every week.

Labor Day: the holiday I've worked every year for...oh, wait, ever.

You're a cruel bitch, Irony, but the compensation is adequate.




*{Haven't seen it? Go. Find. Watch! Classic.}