Just some thoughts
I awoke this morning and realized I miss some of the people I worked with at the Psychiatric facility. This caught me off-guard, as I hated working security with every bone in my body (yet continued working there due to the numerous ancillary benefits). The reason why is that there were some really nice and great people there, a much different scene from the main campus of the hospital, where the working environment was poisoned with people who loved nothing better than to pull the status-from-job-description card all the time. I had to eat untold buckets of shit from people with less of an education and obviously less intelligence from me due to the fact that I was a contracted employee who could be canned by talking back, while they could say anything under the sun to me.
At the Psychiatric facility, almost everyone there were nice and made the 11-hour marathon shifts I worked go faster. The ones who weren't chatty with me at least left me alone and didn't pull the status card with me. By the time I left, almost everyone there knew me, knew I was working on my Master's Degree, and were always asking about updates on how everything was going, and were constantly encouraging me during those long days when I was ready to give up. It was sad in a way, my last day there, there were a lot of hugs and goodbyes.
Working as a rent-a-cop with a college degree, and as a grad student working on a Master's Degree turned me into a bit of a snob, I admit. I typically don't look down my nose at those who lack a college degree, and I know a great many people who didn't finish college. Working at the hospital, however, I developed a snob attitude to compesate for the fact I had to eat shit from so many people who were, quite frankly, ignorant dumbasses. I still have a mental shit-list of people at the main campus I would like to intellectually stomp on, and I still have the bizarre fantasy of coming back to work at the hospital as a security guard if/when I have a PhD, throwing it in their faces and demanding to be referred to as "Dr. Etzler" by everyone including the CEO of the hospital (who is a much nicer guy than the old CEO, who I detested).
Besides being so busy my head is essentially a puddle of shit at the moment, things are looking up. I leave California for Pittsburgh on the evening of June 3rd, but I will continue to update here for all who are interested. I will have my cell phone with me as well for those desiring to keep in touch (don't think this will work during the month I am in Bulgaria, but I will try).
GAMERS: I will be at game on Sunday to see everyone.
That is all for now.
At the Psychiatric facility, almost everyone there were nice and made the 11-hour marathon shifts I worked go faster. The ones who weren't chatty with me at least left me alone and didn't pull the status card with me. By the time I left, almost everyone there knew me, knew I was working on my Master's Degree, and were always asking about updates on how everything was going, and were constantly encouraging me during those long days when I was ready to give up. It was sad in a way, my last day there, there were a lot of hugs and goodbyes.
Working as a rent-a-cop with a college degree, and as a grad student working on a Master's Degree turned me into a bit of a snob, I admit. I typically don't look down my nose at those who lack a college degree, and I know a great many people who didn't finish college. Working at the hospital, however, I developed a snob attitude to compesate for the fact I had to eat shit from so many people who were, quite frankly, ignorant dumbasses. I still have a mental shit-list of people at the main campus I would like to intellectually stomp on, and I still have the bizarre fantasy of coming back to work at the hospital as a security guard if/when I have a PhD, throwing it in their faces and demanding to be referred to as "Dr. Etzler" by everyone including the CEO of the hospital (who is a much nicer guy than the old CEO, who I detested).
Besides being so busy my head is essentially a puddle of shit at the moment, things are looking up. I leave California for Pittsburgh on the evening of June 3rd, but I will continue to update here for all who are interested. I will have my cell phone with me as well for those desiring to keep in touch (don't think this will work during the month I am in Bulgaria, but I will try).
GAMERS: I will be at game on Sunday to see everyone.
That is all for now.