Surprising my students, again

[SeaCat]

So I'm working my tail off today when the Nursing Students show up. I'm told what patients they have and smile to myself. They're going to be dealing with some real winners, which is going to make my life a bit easier for a short while.

Of course I have to watch over them and assist them while attempting to help the duty R.N. teach them. Usually I get one or two of the problem children from the class because I have such a winning personality and have been known to lead by subtle suggestions and gentle persuasion. (You do that damn fool stunt again and I'll stick your tits in the Autoclave.)

Well anyways today I'm standing there talking with a couple of the students and they ask me what I'm planning on doing during my day off. I casualy mention I'll be pulling the Carbs from my bike and starting to rebuild them. One of the students looked at me in shock and asked how I could do something like that.

My reply was that it was just like working on a person, only in this case the patient wasn't still alive when I was working on them.

It never fails though. Each class of students is shocked to find out that many who work the floors have hobbies that have absolutely nothing to do with medicine when we're not in work. What do they think, that our lives are centered around our jobs? That's a sure fire way to burnout.

Cat

 

[sutherngent985]

I know what you mean. I work in electronics. I have known alot of guys in this field who do repair work (TVs, VCR, computers, etc) when they arent working. I deal with this 8 hours a day and alot of times more...last thing I want to do is deal with it in my time off.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I work as an architectural draftsman.

I play as a martial artist and poker player, and drummer, and video games, and movies. None of my hobbies have anything to do with work or each other. You have to treat it like the stock market and diversify

 

[SlickTony]

I type all day long for a legal publishing company, transcribing information from the county public records into a database that ends up in a 3-column format in the paper.

People wonder how I can spend the eating sitting in front of a computer when that's what I've been doing all day. Some of them understand when I tell them it's entirely different; some of them don't.