mɪdˈwɪfəri
So, we've been thinking a lot lately about ~the future~, and that it doesn't really look like it's going to entail living in Europe beyond probably a year or two -- maybe four at the absolute most.
We both just find the UK quite unrewarding. You work hard and earn pittance for it, you're taxed through the roof but the level of social provision and care is kinda abysmal. It's just...pointless. I could afford to do significantly more European travel each year while I was working in a sandwich bar in Australia than I can *now*, working a proper office job IN EUROPE! Not even kidding. Ridic... :\
I've made it through denial, anger, bargaining and depression, I think, with the fact that I'll never live in a Nordic country. At least not til I retire, maybe. I'm at the acceptance stage now. But I feel that if I give up on this UK Ancestry route to EU citizenship that I'm currently on, I won't feel comfortable until I have some other route up my sleeve for possible immigration. Y'know, just in case...
Which means, I need an education and a profession.
And so I started thinking.
Now I don't have the patience to be a teacher, or to study med or law, not clever enough for engineering, not interested in commerce, and we all know Arts degrees are generally useless (I've already dropped out of two!) I've hated essay-writing ever since high school, where I graduated with good grades in four sciences and the requisite bare minimum of one humanity, so that should have probably told me something long ago.
Hence I came up with the crazy idea of...midwifery!
(Honestly, it's even a fucking brilliant word! mɪdˈwɪfəri.)
Practical, sciencey, indulges my girly side with helping people and cute babies while catering to my queer side of not really fancying getting pregnant and birthing one of the little critters myself. Always in demand, pays sufficiently, though seems to be a chronically overworked and understaffed field in most countries.
There are a couple unis back home that do four year double degrees in Nursing & Midwifery, which seems the best option in terms of employability and transferability. Though you can do just plain Midwifery at some too.
But, HOW DO I FIND OUT IF I'M CUT OUT FOR A NURSING CAREER??
Pros
I has a science brain!
I'm a bit of a perfectionist/don't like being wrong -- which could be a con I s'pose, but would probably make me a diligent healthcare person in the end.
I'm totally okay with being yelled at by angry customers. (I work in insurance claims!)
I can handle everything depending on me, and when it all goes tits up anyway I can handle sorting it out. (Used to work in IT...)
I'm very patient with cross-cultural communication, and I like it, and I'm good at it.
No problem with blood, guts, pus or general gore. Mostly indifferent to piss and shit, I think.
Cons
I have a history of being terribly flightly when it comes to university... And I haven't studied in years, and these programs look full on.
I get impatient with stoopid people sometimes :(
I am kinda crap at being decisive. It stresses me out.
Old people make me a bit uncomfortable. Particularly sick ones. Not a big fan of ageing in general...
Not so sure about vomit, or gross smells.
So, tl;dr, put a dot in a circle for me.
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We both just find the UK quite unrewarding. You work hard and earn pittance for it, you're taxed through the roof but the level of social provision and care is kinda abysmal. It's just...pointless. I could afford to do significantly more European travel each year while I was working in a sandwich bar in Australia than I can *now*, working a proper office job IN EUROPE! Not even kidding. Ridic... :\
I've made it through denial, anger, bargaining and depression, I think, with the fact that I'll never live in a Nordic country. At least not til I retire, maybe. I'm at the acceptance stage now. But I feel that if I give up on this UK Ancestry route to EU citizenship that I'm currently on, I won't feel comfortable until I have some other route up my sleeve for possible immigration. Y'know, just in case...
Which means, I need an education and a profession.
And so I started thinking.
Now I don't have the patience to be a teacher, or to study med or law, not clever enough for engineering, not interested in commerce, and we all know Arts degrees are generally useless (I've already dropped out of two!) I've hated essay-writing ever since high school, where I graduated with good grades in four sciences and the requisite bare minimum of one humanity, so that should have probably told me something long ago.
Hence I came up with the crazy idea of...midwifery!
(Honestly, it's even a fucking brilliant word! mɪdˈwɪfəri.)
Practical, sciencey, indulges my girly side with helping people and cute babies while catering to my queer side of not really fancying getting pregnant and birthing one of the little critters myself. Always in demand, pays sufficiently, though seems to be a chronically overworked and understaffed field in most countries.
There are a couple unis back home that do four year double degrees in Nursing & Midwifery, which seems the best option in terms of employability and transferability. Though you can do just plain Midwifery at some too.
But, HOW DO I FIND OUT IF I'M CUT OUT FOR A NURSING CAREER??
Pros
I has a science brain!
I'm a bit of a perfectionist/don't like being wrong -- which could be a con I s'pose, but would probably make me a diligent healthcare person in the end.
I'm totally okay with being yelled at by angry customers. (I work in insurance claims!)
I can handle everything depending on me, and when it all goes tits up anyway I can handle sorting it out. (Used to work in IT...)
I'm very patient with cross-cultural communication, and I like it, and I'm good at it.
No problem with blood, guts, pus or general gore. Mostly indifferent to piss and shit, I think.
Cons
I have a history of being terribly flightly when it comes to university... And I haven't studied in years, and these programs look full on.
I get impatient with stoopid people sometimes :(
I am kinda crap at being decisive. It stresses me out.
Old people make me a bit uncomfortable. Particularly sick ones. Not a big fan of ageing in general...
Not so sure about vomit, or gross smells.
So, tl;dr, put a dot in a circle for me.
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