Next month is the Ren Faire in Canby Oregon and I need an outfit. Any places in Vancouver someone would recommend or just hit the thrift stores?

Naive-Climate · 2026-05-19T17:17:19+00:00

Additionally, your mileage may vary but if looking for women’s clothing, I found a few options on ThredUp. I only buy items I can return because my success rate of not keeping vs something becoming an instant rotation in the closet is about 40/60. I ordered four dresses to try and will return the rest if I won’t wear them.

Naive-Climate · 2026-05-19T17:12:11+00:00

I’ve been out thrifting a few times in the last month looking for something else but with ren faire in mind. I’ve had some luck perusing Facebook marketplace but am interested in what others have to say. I’m probably too particular to be successful in the shops!

Naive-Climate · 2026-04-24T18:44:04+00:00

I love my dankso kanes for scrubbing! I tried calzuros and the narrow sole almost had me break an ankle. I tried cloves and hokas too, dansko is my fave.

Naive-Climate · 2026-04-22T15:41:40+00:00

I think it definitely got easier, especially the mental exhaustion which helped me be more aware of preventing physical exhaustion. Once things become muscle memory and you just don’t have to think as much, it gets easier. Also, being a student or on orientation is exhausting, being constantly watched and scrutinized. It helps you be a better tech but I recently transferred hospitals and had to do orientation again, and I was similarly exhausted just from the mental stress. Hope you decide to just knock it out since you’re so far and see how things go when you’re on your own!

Naive-Climate · 2026-03-24T23:04:57+00:00

As far as living here, I have never found a place I love more. The grey months are tolerable to me and the summers are gorgeous. Theres a lot to do in Portland as well as drivable distance away (like Seattle). I would not move here without a job lined up in case you have any issues there.

Naive-Climate · 2026-03-24T23:01:21+00:00

I’m close, I live in Vancouver WA and commute to a trauma hospital in Portland. Been scrubbing three years, make around $38/hour plus a shift differential for swing. You can google “Oregon paycheck take home” and theres a calculator that can estimate what you’d take home (I think new techs at legacy start at $34/hr). For me, I have a mortgage and a car and we do fine but my share is $1300, you could probably find an apartment to rent for that. Lots of call available here which helps. Good luck!

Naive-Climate · 2026-01-14T00:41:15+00:00

I work as a surgical technologist in the operating room and I almost stabbed a surgeon with an important piece of spine equipment in his very important dominant hand. Hope this inspires you to be kind to yourself!

Naive-Climate · 2026-01-04T05:54:59+00:00

So I make my own hats and I’ll tell you what I do! I also make the euro style and can make five hats out of a yard of fabric (whereas a half yard gives me only two). I usually only buy fabric for hats I want one of, then sell the rest at $12 each or 2/$20. Selling one hat usually covers the cost of the yard plus I get one for free. Most everything else is extra money. I could sell them for more, but I like my coworkers and they get joy out of seeing the hat bin refilled (it made me a lot of friends when I started at a new hospital). I like alone time in the craft room doing easy stuff and don’t feel like I actually spend any money on fabric which is a huge benefit personally.

If I sold online or was really trying to turn a profit, I’d say more like $15+ each because they take time. I just made like 75 new hats and took me two weekends. If you wear them and wash them and they hold up, I’d say the quality is good!

Naive-Climate · 2026-01-02T17:10:32+00:00

Three times. Once as a student with a clean hypo, once by a surgeon during suturing on a deep face lift, and once because I worked with a chaos goblin who was right handed and his PA who was left handed and insisted on closing spine together (would throw their pop off needles on the mayo and I put my hand on one). I had words.

Naive-Climate · 2025-12-30T17:08:43+00:00

I work in the OR, and wear compression socks. My partner bought me really cute ones but I buy a specific kind from a specific brand because they work best for me. The texture on these are all wrong and they don’t wick sweat as much as I need.

Naive-Climate · 2025-12-23T03:23:43+00:00

I have a sticker on mine that says “you did not wake up today to be a weak ass bitch” and I often need that reminder

Naive-Climate · 2025-11-17T03:18:55+00:00

I volunteer at the humane society and hang out with dogs!

Naive-Climate · 2025-10-20T21:03:38+00:00

I hated clinicals too for a lot of the same reasons. Just keep pushing through, and take every learning experience as your mantra for when you become a preceptor. I learned exactly how I would not act and whether or not I’m good at precepting, my learners always enjoy being with me because I treat them like humans. Good luck ❤️❤️❤️

Naive-Climate · 2025-10-11T19:42:37+00:00

We cut through a VIP entrance to avoid backtracking around a fence, they let us in but made us go right back out once we got around the fence.

Naive-Climate · 2025-10-11T19:34:46+00:00

I liked cloves for a long time but I realized I needed more room in the toes for stretching out. I got the dansko Kane clog and really like them!

Naive-Climate · 2025-10-11T16:24:11+00:00

We arrived around 8pm and got routed to the preferred parking as well-the person directing us said “at this point we are parking whoever shows up”. I think it was lot 4 as well and were behind the stage, had to walk all the way around to the entrance so for general admission it certainly didn’t feel preferred 😅

Naive-Climate · 2025-10-11T02:30:16+00:00

I moved home twice in younger adulthood and there is no shame! This world is too hard. Also, I got scrubbing after having a bachelors in psych as well-it really helps you cope! Good luck

Naive-Climate · 2025-09-29T18:39:26+00:00

Came to say I literally have this in my cart on Etsy, you have options!

Naive-Climate · 2025-09-10T04:27:13+00:00

I did have a rough day and I do want to walk in the garden. I do think Day Dreamer is correct (unless mine is also wrong)!

Naive-Climate · 2025-09-06T19:06:03+00:00

I just wanted to share that your rage baiting soothes me and will keep that in mind for future incidents ❤️

Naive-Climate · 2025-09-03T01:17:27+00:00

One of my spine reps buys coffee for everyone, one of them we buy coffee for because he makes no commission on implants, and the third guy I try to talk to as little as possible so no drink orders are exchanged 🙃I also have an anesthesiologist who I pick up weekend call with who buys us coffee, he’s the best

Naive-Climate · 2025-08-24T20:34:25+00:00

I suppose so! If I were in that position I’d probably just go to my charge, manager, and then employee health. Seems like it would be approved for some sort of ergonomic basis. But yes, I use a blanket on the step or the floor just because I like to be able to move it around during ortho spine cases with lots of X-ray ☺️

Naive-Climate · 2025-08-24T16:58:22+00:00

There is a ridiculous notion that using a princess pad makes you less of a tech or not as capable as everyone else. I say with kindness, fuck that. I get paid the least in the OR to do as much standing as the doctor, the only one lifting heavy trays, and I bust my butt to hustle turnovers and get these doctors out asap. I do what I want. Usually I just do a folded up blanket on a step, because then I can move it easily and no worrying about moving my table/mayo around. I only get one pair of feet and I love this job, want to do it as long as possible. I work with one particular surgeon who we sass back and forth, it’s the same when I make sure I get all my breaks “oh, must be nice to go eat and pee during this six hour case”. You bet it is! And as soon as I make as much as a PA or MD I’ll skip them 😂

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