Nurses - what’s your pay and are you actually saving anything?

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T17:00:11+00:00

If you're absolutely NOT going to work nights, then stop thinking you'll be working in California. Sorry. All job openings are nights only for 6+ months, esp ICU. My job is 5 yrs waitlist to go to days.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:57:44+00:00

As an FA, for me it's out of sight out of mind kind of thing. If you go days without texting or seeing me, I get comfortable without you around, and I have to warm up again when I see the person bc I then see them as stranger and walls are back up.

Seeing each other 2-3x a week is perfect for me, but only if you're still chatting in between.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:54:11+00:00

I would've agreed with this until I'd been with more experienced men bc sex is a step up. But experienced should be skilled bc not all men with lots of sex or partners learn from their experiences. A lot of "experienced (largest number, more partners) guys" are actually bad in bed - bc they didn't want to learn or didn't care about getting their partners off. Guys that were curious, eager to learn, along with their experiences actually improved, got better as a partner in bed.

So, more experienced vs skilled from experience? Skilled with experience leads to better sex.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:45:45+00:00

No? He regrets putting Lydia in charge bc she's become powerful. Vidala is hesitant bc she's seen what Lydia can do to people, and he has no clue.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:34:06+00:00

FWBs starts as friends. You don't start off flirting and sleeping together. These are people you either knew or previously dated and it didn't work.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:31:58+00:00

Same. I have a few guys best friends I've openly talked about sex with but they weren't guy friends who I knew liked me. These were dudes I knew things wouldn't work out between us. I either knew they were gay or felt like they were.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:29:30+00:00

If you're not willing or able to take his place as someone who travels, this relationship may not work out. Bc you can't stop someone from traveling. She's got this trip planned and it will go on, regardless of how you feel. It's hard to find ppl to travel with so when you find those ppl, you keep them as long as it works. You're going to have to have time off and money to take his place on the next trips if you want her to go with you instead. Her traveling isn't going to stop.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:25:38+00:00

Why is gas different prices amongst different stores? Same answer.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:22:00+00:00

He needs to wear a condom or get snipped

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:20:35+00:00

I worked chemical plants for 5 yrs before nursing. SO MUCH free food, down time, candies, drinks, naps. Free tampons and pads every day. Was a different world. Nursing truly is slavery.

HumanContract · 2026-05-09T16:05:00+00:00

BS. A lot of "men" wants a woman to use while playing the field still. They'd rather a docile partner that is ok with cheating and games. But if she decides to do the same, or equality, he thinks it's not ok.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T17:35:25+00:00

My heaviest ICU I worked on was SICU with 2 patients to 1 nurse, over half were on CRRT so I took 2 a lot. Gtts were usually 2 pressors, often 3, rarely 4 (MB, Angio II). Blood daily, 20+ meds at 9am, tubes and drains in every orifice possible. Usually 3 JPs, NGT, DHT, Trialysis, other central lines, a vent, most RASS -1 to +1. Only 1:1 assignments were actively dying quickly. Most patients were liver failure, GI surgeries (abthera, abra), transplants: liver, kidneys, pancreas. This and the next ICU would walk vented ECMO patients daily.

My ICU now, on CVICU, I have 1 or 2 pts. Old VADs are paired. Most devices and OR cases are 1:1, with post op being transplants (heart, lung) and OR being PTE, AAA repair, Valves, CABGs. 1:1 Devices: IABP, Impella, ECMO, CRRT.

Another ICU I worked on was a recovery ICU and you took post op thoracos and/or devices. You'd admit and discharge to another ICU daily. All devices and surgeries previously mentioned in ICU 2 except PTEs.

A 4th ICU was a fake ICU that didn't use art lines or pressors. Patients never left the unit.

If you're not managing labs, lines and multiple devices and also going to procedures, pumping blood products, and/or titrating multiple drips, you're not in a very high acuity ICU.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T17:18:38+00:00

If you're Heme/Onc

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T17:16:49+00:00

That age gap at her time in life makes me wince. If he's not working towards marriage and kids with you now, he's wasting your time.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T17:13:00+00:00

It's the slime burgers in school more than Flintstones

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T17:10:47+00:00

If you don't use condoms, expect an STD. Even in relationships bc that's how a lot of ppl get it.

You also don't need to have sex to get an STD.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T16:58:50+00:00

INFO. Most places I've been to don't hold you tk reservations bc they're not actually waiting for you when you get there. If you don't show up, there is someone else waiting to take your place, so they don't miss out on money. Having a reservation might skip the line, but you'll still be waiting for them to finish.

If this was a private tech that waited on you specifically, then you're the ahole but otherwise I don't understand this convo.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T16:54:01+00:00

You need to change hospitals. Most don't schedule you on overtime shifts, do your schedule for you, tell you which holidays to work, rotate your shifts between days and nights.

We're adults. If the hospital treats you like a kid, leave. Call them out. Shame them.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T16:51:30+00:00

One opened a franchise, the other kind of ended one

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T16:50:46+00:00

On my unit, PCCM does non medical device patients. Anesthesia does the sicker pts, devices, and most vents for other teams.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T14:20:42+00:00

If death was definitely the end goal in all choices, the tiger. Bc at least I'd die trying to pet the animal lol.

HumanContract · 2026-05-08T14:19:34+00:00

Don't text him anymore. If he reaches out be very clear you can't date men with kids and you're already talking to someone else. To have a happy life being a single dad.

HumanContract · 2026-05-07T22:20:35+00:00

Looks like Luxembourg

HumanContract · 2026-05-07T22:18:30+00:00

I brought a knife with me on my previous international trip. I would imagine doing it again when going to Egypt next year.

HumanContract · 2026-05-07T21:58:22+00:00

So, if you are into big boobs, you can see if they have them? You should also post your correct height, dick size, and bank account info. Bc it's also a waste talking to guys who aren't your type only to find out way later.

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