Don't worry about your sanity. I think sane people make up a very small portion of the population.
Healthcare. I worked in a hospital for five years. I worked in two different departments. The first catered to the patients for places like radiology, MRI, the lab, same day surgery, pre-surgical services...and you're right. Their staff had a tendency to jerk patients around. Then I transferred to the Breast Center. Different as can be. When a girl in her early 20s came in for an emergency appt from her honeymoon because her husband found a lump, they found the cancer had already spread so quickly that there was little they could do. I watched two seasoned surgeons cry about it in the breakroom. So they're not all bad. But I've also been a patient. Mostly for psych reasons, so the medication...it has either made things worse or doesn't do anything.
Chaos magick, huh? Very interesting. I consider myself more of a Dianic Wiccan.
LOL, My mom tells everyone I"m the female Stephen King. She had to stop reading my novellas when I was...14. She said they scared her. Not as a mother, but as a human being. It was the best compliment I've ever gotten.
Dianic is cool, I've been interested in Her for some time but...the female-ness of the path jars me. Not to say that I think the path is incorrect, far from it...lol I guess we are drawn to that which we are best able to serve, yeah?
My thesis deals with discrimination of transgendered persons by the medical system/ insurance companies, and the more I research the more pissed off I get with the entire thing.
I think its awesome that your mom is supportive. Mine told me, when I was about 14 or 15, that I would never make a career of it. And yet my professor is confident I will be one of the few students to actually get published. *shrug* even with my style, which is influenced by 80s sci-fi and fantasy novels. LOL. I miss those, and now I cant even remember the titles of my old favorites.
And, btw, fwtw I never worry about my sanity. I lost it so long ago, I doubt it was ever really there XD
My mom's fairly supportive. I've been doing a lot of theatre work lately, which makes me happy beyond words, but all she wants to do is talk about how much I get paid. Ugh.
The transgender community gets a lot of shit from all sides. My partner's a pre-op FTM. I hate how he gets treated. But the medical profession in general, watch them closely. 9 times out of 10, they treat one class of people completely different than another. My bosses hated that I refused to do that. It actually caused me a lot of problems.
I dont doubt that if you stood up to them, they would cause you issues. I've had my own share of that sort of bs, in several different fields. As a (and here I am going to pidgin-hole myself) a pre-op/non-HRT ftm myself, I fear the system. I hate to think of what would happen if I even tried to get insurance. The whole process is just insane, and I find the report (from HRC or off of birls, I forget where I saw it) that 70-some percent of ftm-identified people had 'positive' experiences with their medical care-takers outlandish at best.
I work for the theater at my college, I know the pay sucks. But you know what, I wouldnt trade the work for anything....lol, stage crew rocks, is all I have to say. My mom also has issues with the pay-rate but...then again..with the economy, I would rather get paid next to nothing than nothing at all. The awesomeness of the job is a bonus though eh?
can I patent that phrase, 'sanity is fleeting'? I want to put it on a tshirt. :D
The phrase is yours. I tell people that all the time.
I love theatre. I did Stage Management and was co-lighting designer for my first show Jan-March. I LOVE it. I just signed on to do "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". I am pee-your-pants excited.
lol, thats awesome! I have no idea what the play is that my theater is working on, Jeanee de Arc or something along those lines. What made you want to get into stage management?
Have you ever stepped into a place, or a situation and suddenly you feel like raw electricity? Everything in you is excited and wired and just...alive? That's the theatre for me. Erin's a lighting designer, and I'd always go help him and stuff. He'd teach me various things, let me do stuff on the Light board...I lived for it.
I've always been very good at managing large groups of people. So it just...fit. And then I took my first job doing "Only When I Bleed". I initially took taht show because it was about cutting and self-injury, something I'm far too familiar with. And it was the most amazing experience. My moods improved, I felt better about myself. Like Erin says, "Theatre people are my people."
Healthcare. I worked in a hospital for five years. I worked in two different departments. The first catered to the patients for places like radiology, MRI, the lab, same day surgery, pre-surgical services...and you're right. Their staff had a tendency to jerk patients around. Then I transferred to the Breast Center. Different as can be. When a girl in her early 20s came in for an emergency appt from her honeymoon because her husband found a lump, they found the cancer had already spread so quickly that there was little they could do. I watched two seasoned surgeons cry about it in the breakroom. So they're not all bad. But I've also been a patient. Mostly for psych reasons, so the medication...it has either made things worse or doesn't do anything.
Chaos magick, huh? Very interesting. I consider myself more of a Dianic Wiccan.
LOL, My mom tells everyone I"m the female Stephen King. She had to stop reading my novellas when I was...14. She said they scared her. Not as a mother, but as a human being. It was the best compliment I've ever gotten.
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My thesis deals with discrimination of transgendered persons by the medical system/ insurance companies, and the more I research the more pissed off I get with the entire thing.
I think its awesome that your mom is supportive. Mine told me, when I was about 14 or 15, that I would never make a career of it. And yet my professor is confident I will be one of the few students to actually get published. *shrug* even with my style, which is influenced by 80s sci-fi and fantasy novels. LOL. I miss those, and now I cant even remember the titles of my old favorites.
And, btw, fwtw I never worry about my sanity. I lost it so long ago, I doubt it was ever really there XD
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My mom's fairly supportive. I've been doing a lot of theatre work lately, which makes me happy beyond words, but all she wants to do is talk about how much I get paid. Ugh.
The transgender community gets a lot of shit from all sides. My partner's a pre-op FTM. I hate how he gets treated. But the medical profession in general, watch them closely. 9 times out of 10, they treat one class of people completely different than another. My bosses hated that I refused to do that. It actually caused me a lot of problems.
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I work for the theater at my college, I know the pay sucks. But you know what, I wouldnt trade the work for anything....lol, stage crew rocks, is all I have to say. My mom also has issues with the pay-rate but...then again..with the economy, I would rather get paid next to nothing than nothing at all. The awesomeness of the job is a bonus though eh?
can I patent that phrase, 'sanity is fleeting'? I want to put it on a tshirt. :D
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I love theatre. I did Stage Management and was co-lighting designer for my first show Jan-March. I LOVE it. I just signed on to do "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". I am pee-your-pants excited.
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I've always been very good at managing large groups of people. So it just...fit. And then I took my first job doing "Only When I Bleed". I initially took taht show because it was about cutting and self-injury, something I'm far too familiar with. And it was the most amazing experience. My moods improved, I felt better about myself. Like Erin says, "Theatre people are my people."
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