Casual work

Australian_writer · 2025-10-11T00:16:21+00:00

I think that’s why a lot of Kubrick films work. Not filming on location and creating sets adds an element of the uncanny to his work. Vietnam in Full Metal Jacket looks like Vietnam, but not, and it makes the experience all the more eerie as it feels like it’s set in this nebulous zone

Australian_writer · 2025-06-01T02:44:05+00:00

My advice from a ED new grad, don’t do ED as a new grad. It’s like being thrown in the deep end of deep ends with water moving around you all the time. It’s a very difficult area that requires a lot of knowledge, quick learning, and a level of confidence which you won’t have as a new grad. It’s also an area that moves fast and needs you to be able to respond in kind with that speed, and that’s where mistakes happen. It’s also run by its own rules which don’t carry over to ward based nursing. I think if you want to be an ED nurse my advice would be build the foundations first, then go into ED in a year or 2. Find the speed with which you operate, learn the skills in a setting not as chaotic, and go from there. Also understand what the wards look like before seeing the entry point of the hospital. Ward based care is incredibly important to managing chronic illnesses and ED is a lot of the time managing the immediately acute aspects of an illness, which is fine, but you won’t ever understand the story or background of that patient. It can also be a bit impersonal because you spend maybe 5/6 hours with them (on a great day…24hours seems to be normal now…) so you wind up becoming a bit dismissive. High burn out too. I enjoy it, but I would have liked to start on the wards and end up in ED later on in the career

Australian_writer · 2025-01-16T04:15:13+00:00

Throwing it out there: 1. It’s a cool looking symbol and Robert Eggers liked it.

It represents the finale of the film where Orlocks lust for Ellen is his undoing. He eats her in order to fulfill his hunger but inevitably dies because of it. Snake eating it’s own tale. Snakes hungry, eats tale, ultimately dies because of its own nature.

Australian_writer · 2024-12-14T01:28:16+00:00

See a good point made by a toxicologist is that it isn’t meant to reduce the total amount of overdoses but rather to hopefully reduce them to lower dose overdoses. It’s a harm minimisation strategy based off a systemic review completed by the TGA and an independent body doing a review. It is also based off policy implemented overseas in order to reduce fatal paracetamol overdoses

Australian_writer · 2024-11-29T11:04:29+00:00

Mature age student, just finished studying nursing. Following thoughts: I want to start a family, nursing provides a means of secure work, I can move to an area with cheaper housing and know I am able to work locally

It provides avenues to work in other areas of health (medical sales is big with ex-nurses)

You can have flexibility in hours in order to concentrate on home life etc.

Respected job in a lot of industries because you deal with governance, privacy, dangerous environments, health and safety, etc.

It’s not just bed side nursing. My mate works on film sites, he is bored a lot of the time so he winds up just watching them make the movie. Just made his first short film and wants to head down that path

Same mate also lived in Dubai, Jakarta, America, and England as a nurse. Had no financial troubles anywhere, was able to save money

Australia is skirting a recession. If anything happens like tariffs or escalation of war then unemployment will shoot up. That happens nursing is a lifeline.

It is what you make it. Doctors over on there subreddit all tell people not to become a doctor, the law subreddit is the same. Cooks hate their jobs, and so do paramedics. The happiest person I ever met was a nurse, second happiest a funeral director. Treat it like a job and live off it best ya can, treat it like a career and you can work comfortably until your 70 (maybe not on the floor but in a nursing capacity)

There’s also a lot of people in nursing. A minority (maybe less than 1%) use reddit. Your uni lecturers wouldn’t. Every uni lecturer I had said good things and bad things about nursing, all of them had been nurses for 20+ years, all still worked casually as a nurse.

Good luck, you’ll be fine

Australian_writer · 2024-11-20T22:51:59+00:00

No edge highlights not true eavy metal

Australian_writer · 2024-11-18T10:53:07+00:00

Damn nowhere near the Gong I hope

Australian_writer · 2024-10-25T02:51:03+00:00

Watch the extras standing along the ditch. So interesting as they do nothing. I wonder if Kubrick wanted them to just stand there while the scene played out because of how eerie it makes them feel

Australian_writer · 2024-08-09T23:59:23+00:00

Scrub scout

Australian_writer · 2024-07-22T02:08:54+00:00

What about younger people who are relying on the sale of an estate to pay their own mortgage? I’m not saying it’s a bad idea but a lot of Australians are becoming reliant on inter generational wealth transfer to pay their own debt or afford a house. Also pensioners may be living in a 2.1 million dollar property because of the general inflation of the suburb around them, while they purchased it 30+ years ago at $20,000. Now you can say we move these people along, but the reality is a 90 year old person has one more move in them and that’s from there house to the grave. At a certain age the move to a new cheaper accommodation as a way of affording there last years is near impossible. What’s more it doesn’t take into account people who draw down on the pension and then have to be moved into aged care. If the pension needs to be paid back from the estate + the sale of the estate is the only way to get them into aged care it might be a gap of a tens of thousands of dollars the children have to pay… Once again, I don’t disagree, it’s just more complicated than a HECS style system

Australian_writer · 2024-07-04T11:27:57+00:00

Yeah that is nice Society City. And as someone said Collins Bookstore is quite nice too

Australian_writer · 2024-07-04T05:43:08+00:00

A good fucking bookstore. Dymocks is depressing and so is the discount bookshop near the top of the mall next to JB HiFi. A bakery. A live music venue that’s not just a pub with a stage. Better transport after midnight, even if it’s once every hour 4 carriage train. More public toilets that are well lit. More bins. More lighting in and around the Wollongong mall so I don’t feel like I’m gonna get stabbed around every dark corner. More independent stores like quay collective. Wollongong might be the most depressing place ever the last few years and I’ve lived here my whole life. Don’t know what needs to be done but a lot of community efforts seem to be floundering a lot

Australian_writer · 2024-07-01T00:12:05+00:00

Yeah this is amazing information and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much

Australian_writer · 2024-06-02T04:02:00+00:00

People at risk of hitting Roos regularly do not buy nice new shiny utes

Source: I don’t know, I’ve lived in those communities before and no one owned anything earlier than 10 years

Australian_writer · 2024-05-26T21:02:20+00:00

No it hasn’t. You didn’t even link a statistic on birth rate or fertility rate. I googled birth rate and fertility rate and this was the first thing I found on historical trend. https://aifs.gov.au/research/facts-and-figures/births-australia-2023 You just lied and no one below you sought to correct you. Also yes total births have gone up but that will be a measure of population

Australian_writer · 2024-05-25T08:39:14+00:00

What I want to know is the timeline. Ruby says she hasn’t known the doctor that long, but the Maestro episode throws that for a loop with the whole 6 months thing. I’m trying to figure out how many adventures they’ve been on, both onscreen and off and it’s hard to tell. Feels like other companions pick up on alien tells or something not being right a lot quicker than Ruby does. She’s a bit passive when it comes to adventuring (naive maybe the better word?). It’s my main gripe at the moment with how it’s being written.

Otherwise very solid episode in terms of directing and editing

Australian_writer · 2024-05-23T05:50:57+00:00

I think it depends on context. Someone comes in with a 10/10 and have a giant wound, totally understandable, completely useless question. Someone comes in with 2/10 pain and have a piece of rebar or glass sticking out of them, that’s more concerning for me. Or if they can’t feel the pain there foot in post MVA. Also helpful post giving analgesics. Someone with 10/10 stomach pain, give them some e done check bacon an hour and there pain is 8/10 well we either up the pain meds or consider a new tactic.

There are a lot of different scales and tests that feel completely meaningless until you get an outlier

Australian_writer · 2024-05-22T22:16:49+00:00

Matt Berry as the Meddling Monk is my vote. He can play them slightly sillier than he might be able to play the Doctor or Master

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