@meagloth I'm not that closed... When my wife had a stroke I shared details in my status. I have participated in thread for sadness, etc... I just avoid giving too many details. Crazy stalkers are out there
@meagloth I'm not that closed... When my wife had a stroke I shared details in my status. I have participated in thread for sadness, etc... i just avoid giving too many details. Crazy stalkers are out there
I see. I must have missed most of it, I guess. It just seemed like there was some stuff I didn't know... How to pronounce your name, for example. ...or remember how to spell it in order to tag you:)
@kiwidoc you are right in many thing the nurses job today is so diversity one can find his place in any one of them and one can change places if one get bored and so on.
Yes medicine help a lot but it not a cure it treat the symptoms or if you do a surgery it help in one way but hurt in another there is a lot of way to look on it but the question is in the end if it worth it, if the advantage are more then the disadvantages, in every case it different. Sometimes the medicine hold a person life in a state of none life and for that I don't agree there are times when there a need to just let go, sometimes the medicine hold a person life but it not giving him any quality of life and there is a question here if it worth it.
@booinyoureyes go and study and have fun it worth it, listen to kiwidoc, me I have a mixed feeling about the medicine as it is now, but I respects what it can do.
@kiwidoc I found out recently that engaging in an argument over the internet with somebody is not productive at all. One should see each other's eyes , be in the same place , as for me I use gestures too , to clarify myself. Explaining yourself is very lame , as if you are humiliated by not making it clarified , and defending yourself like you are a criminal. But this happens here I guess. And for the sake of fun , I will continue if you also wish to join.
Well , kiwidoc , for those to be 'justifying' facts , you have to justify the fact of having a baby. I don't care if somebody would live if I'm dying , how can I witness more that one is grateful even if he or she is ? A seat more higher more at the back can prove the reason for this , just take a look from there and see the image... I'm alone and only , as anyone are. That thing you said would only fail a person if he or she had a baby. Well that is not me , and I will never make that mistake. These are my opinions of course.
@Sophia Head down, tongue between your teeth and power on through it ... and someday you'll have the joy of delivering a healthy baby, or saving a life in A&E (ER in North America) or granting someone a peaceful and dignified death (yep, that can be a joy as well.)
Im a kindergarten teacher (bachelor), have a master's in pedagogy and hopefully starting up my phd very soon.
As @meagloth said (as he seems to remember virtually everything on these forums!), I live in Bangkok and have been here since 2008. Prior to that I was living in Korea. Other than Asia, I've only lived in the US and briefly in the UK, but have had the opportunity to travel to many more countries.
Good luck with the Ph.D. I'd like to begin mine soon, but I'm still paying off my last master's degree, and my wife is now pursuing hers as well. Tight budget for a while...
Thanks! Hoping for a letter soon But I am curious about why Bangkok is so great? I am curious because I dont know much about the city and it is refreshing when people call a city they live in the best in the world, inspirational maybe
Thanks! Hoping for a letter soon But I am curious about why Bangkok is so great? I am curious because I dont know much about the city and it is refreshing when people call a city they live in the best in the world, inspirational maybe
Bangkok has virtually anything you can imagine, but often at a much lower price than other major cities. That includes food, shopping, travel, health care and almost anything else. For those who want it, five star hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and condos are available, but you can also find incredibly inexpensive options. I rent a two bedroom/two bathroom townhouse in a gated community, five minutes from a BTS station (the elevated Skytrain in the city center) and pay about $330/month.
Despite the political unrest Thailand has had for the past decade, the people are amazingly resilient and positive. I still feel safer here than I would in most other cities, and we live very comfortably on a single salary while my wife works toward her MBA.
There's a lot more, but I'd be writing a massive post if I included all of the things I like about living here!
@booinyoureyes go for it, and best of luck. I know how bloody hard med school is - i didn't get to be a young adult, just a bloody med student who didn't have time to have any fun. After I'd finished then I discovered RPGs - even working a 100 hour week on average, I still had time to kill loads of dragons! btw don't worry about people who think modern medicine is rubbish - I've saved numerous people's lives, and given many many more a major improvement in their lives using modern medicine. Hell, it's saved mylife five times and counting!
@kiwidoc thanks for the kind words, and I agree wholeheartedly with your take. For some reason I missed your post entirely earlier, so sorry for the late response.
Its wonderful to hear that you had time to play RPGs. I am horrified of residency tbh.
Also your take on nursing is very interesting. As soon as I finish this coming trimester (omg, I start in a week I will go nuts) I am going to take Step One (1st part of licensing exam in the States). After I'm actually gonna sit down with my parents and my girlfriend to see if I want to maybe switch to Physician Assistant school. I'm kinda dissatisfied with medicine right now, and taking forever to finish. I took the last trimester off to think things through. I'm scared of not getting matched since I am going to be an US International Graduate, so I may not want to spend two and half more years on something that may not be a sure thing.
I could just as easily have put down "Other" for retail sales: I work at a women's clothing outlet (no, really, I am the only man working there). However, what I consider myself? What I *want* to do? A writer, a game designer, a poet. I'm taking little steps to get closer to that goal, and mostly I'm trying to get my life together to the point I can consider really pursuing those goals. For now I save money, I write a bit, I continue gaming, and I try to deal with being an adult and all that that entails.
Except I work at a discount store, not a clothing outlet. :P
@booinyoureyes go for it, and best of luck. I know how bloody hard med school is - i didn't get to be a young adult, just a bloody med student who didn't have time to have any fun. After I'd finished then I discovered RPGs - even working a 100 hour week on average, I still had time to kill loads of dragons! btw don't worry about people who think modern medicine is rubbish - I've saved numerous people's lives, and given many many more a major improvement in their lives using modern medicine. Hell, it's saved mylife five times and counting!
@kiwidoc thanks for the kind words, and I agree wholeheartedly with your take. For some reason I missed your post entirely earlier, so sorry for the late response.
Its wonderful to hear that you had time to play RPGs. I am horrified of residency tbh.
Also your take on nursing is very interesting. As soon as I finish this coming trimester (omg, I start in a week I will go nuts) I am going to take Step One (1st part of licensing exam in the States). After I'm actually gonna sit down with my parents and my girlfriend to see if I want to maybe switch to Physician Assistant school. I'm kinda dissatisfied with medicine right now, and taking forever to finish. I took the last trimester off to think things through. I'm scared of not getting matched since I am going to be an US International Graduate, so I may not want to spend two and half more years on something that may not be a sure thing.
eh, one step at a time
It's my own fault for picking Psychiatry as my discipline. That kind of ties you to a city, as all the peripheral big "bins" and small psyche units have been closed. If I'd gone for family medicine my options would have been wider. But it serves me right for moving between two countries, and having to do one set of exams again. But the thing I regret most is picking a job where I have to be on call at night for the rest of my life. As I got older I found it harder and harder to cope with little or no sleep. I was lucky with my internships. New Zealand was the first country to make an 80 hour week (on average) the mandatory upper limit for junior doctors, and a maximum of 20 hours with no sleep. Sadly this didn't happen till I'd done my 2 years as a house surgeon - but as a registrar I did get my life back.
[/i]*clears throat*[/i] ... errm so here's my character sheet, almighty DM:
Class: Office slave driver / Backcountry wwoofer / Your friendly in-flight neighbour Race: Half-Nerd (-1 Str, +50% resistance against Power Outage) Combat styles: keyboard+mouse, 2-handed shovel Languages: Subway maps, Airport English
Those 5 months of wwoofing in lovely New Zealand were the greatest favour I could do to myself. I warmly recommend the experience if you're under 30. If older, ship your kids there! http://www.wwoof.co.nz/howitworks.php
I make coffee right now. Is that what I want to do for the rest of my life? No. Do I really know what I plan to do with the rest of my life? Heck no.
I'm a dreamer, a procrastinator, a perfectionist, and I suffer from extreme restartitis. (Yes. In real life.) None of those blend well together. My dream jobs include writer, musician, chef, professional mma fighter, and many more I can't even think of here. Some of these I've definitively decided I wouldn't want to do for a living (such as being a chef), while others are simply so... challenging for me to try for. I've grown up with a great deal of "you must get a job that can support a family", which has really hurt me, I feel. Nothing I WANT to do in life is really an adequate career, and I'd go mad and kill myself if I had to sit in a cubicle for nine hours a day doing grunt work. Between my procrastination and my restartitis, I can never sit with one writing project long enough to finish it. (as some of you may have noticed if you read my written play-throughs here on the forums. It's a constant struggle to force myself to play those games and update them, despite enjoying it when I do) My perfectionism is a constant thorn in my side when it comes to any dreams of being a musician, since I never feel good enough about it. There's always someone better than me, and if I can't be the best then I don't want to be anything. It's the same way with art. I've never been spectacular with art, but I could have been much better if I practiced more. I'm too much of a perfectionist, however, and therefore I get discouraged every time I put pen(cil) to paper. I think that's why I like writing. It's harder to say whether or not I'm being "good enough" for it. Of course, as I said, that's when my restartitis and procrastination kick in. It's a vicious cycle and I don't know how it'll end. Of course, this isn't an attempt for sympathy, since most of this is my own da** fault. But yeah. That's what I do in my life. =p
I'm your typical middle class, faceless nobody who works an 8 hour a day, 5-7 day a week blue collar job, pays taxes and pays off debt in a forced indentured servitude to various financial institutions like many others in what is known as the "American Dream".
Well, at least to the BG community, you're far then "typical middle class". You're a modder and a well-known person here So, you're one of those few who keep the "BG Dream" alive.
@Elrandir You should be whatever you like! whatever you dream about, and being perfectionist be perfectionist for yourself don't compere yourself to others but what you think is best, if you always have doubts about your work and always look to see what isn't perfect it will really hard on you to go anywhere in life, you should let yourself let go and do what you like even painting I bet that if you will do that and upload here on the forum people will love your work
You are good enough to do whatever you wish for don't give up your dream just because you have a shadow of doubt!
I know it isn't easy growing up with the pressure of "you must get a job that can support a family", that how the world work on but you should do what best for you, do something you can enjoy and won't suffocate you and give you something like timetable of working time, don't give up to it, if it isn't for you.
@Elrandir reading your post was like looking in a life-mirror. I feel your pain. I bet you're an awesome human being though, which is all that really matters Too much in this modern world we live in, we focus on what we do, rather than who we are.
I earn some pocket money making illustrations of a historical and archaeological nature, that's my passion though in reality I pay my rent by working in a shop selling folk instruments (musical). I'm just finishing off a year of post-graduate study in "Drawing," more fine arts based than I am used to.
Its really a.. Head in the clouds, feet on thin ice, kind of existence.
I work in retail, though I'm saving up money for college. It's a long, slow process, what with minimum wage and making payments, but I'm raking it in. I also have experience as a hotel cleaner, which is why many of my coworkers come to me whenever there's a dirty job that needs to be done. I'm used to seeing nasty things.
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@kiwidoc you are right in many thing the nurses job today is so diversity one can find his place in any one of them and one can change places if one get bored and so on.
Yes medicine help a lot but it not a cure it treat the symptoms or if you do a surgery it help in one way but hurt in another there is a lot of way to look on it but the question is in the end if it worth it, if the advantage are more then the disadvantages, in every case it different.
Sometimes the medicine hold a person life in a state of none life and for that I don't agree there are times when there a need to just let go, sometimes the medicine hold a person life but it not giving him any quality of life and there is a question here if it worth it.
@booinyoureyes go and study and have fun it worth it, listen to kiwidoc, me I have a mixed feeling about the medicine as it is now, but I respects what it can do.
Well , kiwidoc , for those to be 'justifying' facts , you have to justify the fact of having a baby. I don't care if somebody would live if I'm dying , how can I witness more that one is grateful even if he or she is ? A seat more higher more at the back can prove the reason for this , just take a look from there and see the image... I'm alone and only , as anyone are. That thing you said would only fail a person if he or she had a baby. Well that is not me , and I will never make that mistake. These are my opinions of course.
Although I'm thinking of moving into Lion Taming. Possibly via Banking.
But I am curious about why Bangkok is so great? I am curious because I dont know much about the city and it is refreshing when people call a city they live in the best in the world, inspirational maybe
Despite the political unrest Thailand has had for the past decade, the people are amazingly resilient and positive. I still feel safer here than I would in most other cities, and we live very comfortably on a single salary while my wife works toward her MBA.
There's a lot more, but I'd be writing a massive post if I included all of the things I like about living here!
Its wonderful to hear that you had time to play RPGs. I am horrified of residency tbh.
Also your take on nursing is very interesting. As soon as I finish this coming trimester (omg, I start in a week I will go nuts) I am going to take Step One (1st part of licensing exam in the States). After I'm actually gonna sit down with my parents and my girlfriend to see if I want to maybe switch to Physician Assistant school. I'm kinda dissatisfied with medicine right now, and taking forever to finish. I took the last trimester off to think things through. I'm scared of not getting matched since I am going to be an US International Graduate, so I may not want to spend two and half more years on something that may not be a sure thing.
eh, one step at a time
I was lucky with my internships. New Zealand was the first country to make an 80 hour week (on average) the mandatory upper limit for junior doctors, and a maximum of 20 hours with no sleep. Sadly this didn't happen till I'd done my 2 years as a house surgeon - but as a registrar I did get my life back.
Class: Office slave driver / Backcountry wwoofer / Your friendly in-flight neighbour
Race: Half-Nerd (-1 Str, +50% resistance against Power Outage)
Combat styles: keyboard+mouse, 2-handed shovel
Languages: Subway maps, Airport English
Those 5 months of wwoofing in lovely New Zealand were the greatest favour I could do to myself. I warmly recommend the experience if you're under 30. If older, ship your kids there!
http://www.wwoof.co.nz/howitworks.php
I'm a dreamer, a procrastinator, a perfectionist, and I suffer from extreme restartitis. (Yes. In real life.) None of those blend well together. My dream jobs include writer, musician, chef, professional mma fighter, and many more I can't even think of here. Some of these I've definitively decided I wouldn't want to do for a living (such as being a chef), while others are simply so... challenging for me to try for. I've grown up with a great deal of "you must get a job that can support a family", which has really hurt me, I feel. Nothing I WANT to do in life is really an adequate career, and I'd go mad and kill myself if I had to sit in a cubicle for nine hours a day doing grunt work. Between my procrastination and my restartitis, I can never sit with one writing project long enough to finish it. (as some of you may have noticed if you read my written play-throughs here on the forums. It's a constant struggle to force myself to play those games and update them, despite enjoying it when I do) My perfectionism is a constant thorn in my side when it comes to any dreams of being a musician, since I never feel good enough about it. There's always someone better than me, and if I can't be the best then I don't want to be anything. It's the same way with art. I've never been spectacular with art, but I could have been much better if I practiced more. I'm too much of a perfectionist, however, and therefore I get discouraged every time I put pen(cil) to paper. I think that's why I like writing. It's harder to say whether or not I'm being "good enough" for it. Of course, as I said, that's when my restartitis and procrastination kick in. It's a vicious cycle and I don't know how it'll end. Of course, this isn't an attempt for sympathy, since most of this is my own da** fault. But yeah. That's what I do in my life. =p
You are good enough to do whatever you wish for don't give up your dream just because you have a shadow of doubt!
I know it isn't easy growing up with the pressure of "you must get a job that can support a family", that how the world work on but you should do what best for you, do something you can enjoy and won't suffocate you and give you something like timetable of working time, don't give up to it, if it isn't for you.
Its really a.. Head in the clouds, feet on thin ice, kind of existence.
Currently working in retail. Trying to get into healthcare.