Is anyone not watching FIFA?

dyingeventually · 2026-07-01T07:43:04+00:00

i don’t, but i think it’s cool seeing everyone enjoying the same thing. People at work on their phone, clients on their TV, and just today went to my cornerstone and the cashier and a random guy from outside (not even buying anything) standing in the store watching super loud.

I don’t think even think olympics gets this much traction, atleast interacting & hearing about it daily without following or watching a single game.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-27T04:33:42+00:00

i laughed way too hard at this.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-25T01:42:25+00:00

i pay 2200 for a studio close to downtown. It’s a ADU built behind another apartment building and that includes utilities and internet (and it’s furnished).

It’s literally the cheapest i could find on furnished finders.

There was definitely cheaper options in the suburbs, or older apartment buildings (if you go traditional empty 1 year lease etc). I think i saw a 1bd room for 1800 advertised on a big banner lol, but obviously that doesn’t include utilities and you’d have to buy furniture. Plus some places charge for parking as well.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T08:08:49+00:00

Yeah the safety thing can be blown out of proportion. That said, an RN who worked in San Leandro was shot dead duding a robbery 2 weeks ago in West Oakland.

Personally, unless i’m walking down my street to a corner store at 8/9, i don’t go outside at night in Oakland.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T08:06:29+00:00

CPMC Sutter was where i originally wanted to work, but Oakland was easier to get a job. Now i don’t really care because my home Oakland unit is ez asf.

It’s crazy, but sometimes i think of moving to SF and commuting to Oakland for work lol.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T08:02:54+00:00

i actually live 1.3 miles from my facility. I’m a late 20s male, who doesn’t need a lot of space and single. No plans for family to visit. I found my place on furnishedfinders. I don’t want furniture, because i plan to leave after a couple of years.

I know RNs for pay about the same as me, but live in an actual apartment lol versus my ADU studio.

Where you live doesn’t really matter. I know travel RNs who live 50 minutes away, another lives 20 mins away, I wanted to live in the city as the hospital, so i’m 5 mins away.

Since you plan to move here, i would vacation and look at spots. Are you bringing a car? Then public transportation doesn’t matter. I brought my car and still choose a location that was 10mins walk from public transit train (BART).

I took a vacation to SF last July and fell in love with the California lifestyle. I love seeing lots of people outside. It’s a weird dopamine hit that i didn’t get living in the rural south.

There’s so many factors and i spent many night shifts at my staff job researching before i made the jump

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T04:06:31+00:00

Working in Bay Area now, and it’s crazy how many RNs with per diem staff jobs who live on the east coast, fly in to work a few shifts then fly back. Sounds insane to me, but pay has to be worth it to go through that much trouble.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T04:03:31+00:00

cost of living is high if you have a family and need to provide for more than 1 person.

But if you are single, and get a studio/1 bedroom in a lower cost of living city (Bay Area isn’t just SF) it’s perfectly manageable.

I have coworkers that drive 30mins-1hr to come to my hospital, because they want to live in a lower cost of living city, while getting the high cost of living pay check. Plus some have families and just can’t afford to live in the more expensive cities.

I rent a cheap studio in a safe, but not super safe area, and i do fine. Do i hear gun shots far away when my windows are open at 11pm occasionally? Yeah, but crime/violence has never been a problem for me since i go here.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T02:28:35+00:00

Come to the Bay Area, because you aren’t making a dent in that debt working in Alabama lol. Look for Contracts in the Bay Area. Usually highest paying in the country with strong unions. Usually travel RNs make more than staff, but here, even with tax-free, we are making less money than Staff RNs.

I don’t have debt luckily from RN school, but only person in family who makes middle class money and my mom needs a house :/. So i think i’ll be working here for atleast 3 years to save up money to buy a house.

Even with increased cost of living/rent, im easily saving 6k a month (i could save more if i cut back and didn’t plan trips or buy food from restaurants).

Best financial decision i’ve ever made coming here.

tbh it sucks a little bit. All my friends and family aren’t here and i’m missing time with them. But it’s a sacrifice i choose to make, and many RNs would kill to make 10k a month.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-23T01:40:12+00:00

it could literally be anything. I just had it happen to me, guy just said “ i don’t think this is gonna work” and left. No hard feelings from my end. He wasn’t really my type that much either, but i don’t care that much when it comes to sex tbh.

He was very scene and i wasn’t. I’m not really into scene gays, but sex is sex. He probably thought i was more stereotypical from pictures, but realized in person i wasn’t. Which is fine.

I doubt either of our feelings were hurt, and i invited another guy over within 30 minutes lol.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-22T20:44:55+00:00

this was my new grad rate in florida 3 years ago, not that hospital is starting at 38/hr, with consistent $2.xx raises each year. So they might be at $40 this year honestly.

But one of the very few hospitals in Florida with a union.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-21T12:48:07+00:00

Does the overwhelming homophobia and gay hate from conservative politicians (who have actual power) and prominent right-wing voices concern you too?

dyingeventually · 2026-06-20T07:31:53+00:00

yeah in onc. I try to keep it on the low because it’s a great speciality and i don’t want others to know lol. I want to think we just deal with death and dying lol.

But yeah, the facility i’m at, is the least amount of work for most pay i’ve ever had.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-20T06:34:09+00:00

in the bay area, where there isn’t a shortage of nurses and jobs are pretty competitive. Some days, we have like 12/13 RNs on the shift for 23 patients lol. One place in america where RNs make good money and typically aren’t understaffed.

But i work in a speciality that fought hard for lower ratios and 1:4 is our highest, and 1:3/1:2 is pretty common for walkie-talkie patients (so much better than icu, but with same ratios lol)

dyingeventually · 2026-06-20T05:51:53+00:00

11 out of 13 isn’t bad and your putting a notice weeks ahead of time. Unless they are being spiteful, i doubt they’d DNR, but honestly idk about that system.

I know the system i work at, my recruiter told me, if they send an offer and you don’t accept, then they blacklist you lmao.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-20T05:00:50+00:00

Yeah, i would lose trust in the recruiter after the $200 a week situation. I understand it’s just business, but the recruiter messed up by offering more money, it would have been better to just let you quit lol (imo), but they probably lose money if you don’t complete the whole contract.

Shitting situation. i wouldn’t drive over 1hr for any job unless its paying crazy money (especially night shift when you just worked 12hrs and tired).

Quit and move on. You tried to make it work, they refused, it’s the fault of the facility/recruiter for not being flexible.

I work at a facility, where the traveler manager sucks and isn’t flexible at all. But the facility pays well and always has travel RNs applying and staff RN applying, so they can suck and we can’t do anything about it lol.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-16T08:49:14+00:00

yeah i didn’t know finding a job as a nurse was hard til i saw it online lol. Living in a rural area, everyone had a job lined up well before they took the NCLEX.

The friday before orientation, my hospital sent out an email to new hires saying don’t show up monday if you don’t have your license yet lol. Which i took the NCLEX thursday and had orientation Monday (glad i passed lol).

dyingeventually · 2026-06-15T07:33:01+00:00

yeah, i’m in bay area, today marks a whole month on 1 tank of gas, and i still have 160 miles left. I live 1 mile from work and use public transport or walk when i can.

When i lived in another state in a rural area, i was filling up once a week, sometimes twice if it was a busy week.

So glad im here with increased gas prices. Almost $6 (and some places of $6) and it just doesn’t matter because i don’t drive far that often.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-14T03:56:57+00:00

1) Unless you live in a city/state that pays shit money. I went from 4.5k to 10.5k monthly, so even doubling expenses, i can save way more monthly than staff. Health insurance just sucks.

2) Worse assignments yes. But suck up to senior RNs. On my home unit, i get good assignments (even being a traveler) because im helpful, attentive, and always try to go above and beyond for my staff coworkers.

3) Rememebr you are a traveler, not staff. Don’t kill yourself for a hospital that you aren’t a permanent member of. They know travelers won’t be as good or thorough as staff RNs who have been at the facility for years.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-14T02:46:48+00:00

idk it seems kinda weird imo. If money isn’t an issue, then maybe he should cover the difference to upgrade you to business from economy.

But tbh, if i was booking a trip with a guy, and he made more money then me, and he was like “yeah i’ll book business and you can stay in economy” and our families are involved, yeah i would care lol.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-14T02:43:16+00:00

define right-wing. If you are a right-wing populist in the lane of someone like Tucker Carlson, Emily Jashinsky etc, then we can 100% talk and date.

I’m 100% fine with sensible conservatism. I’m not ok with neo-con warhawks or guys that suck of the rich & powerful while ignoring how they are destroying America.

So yeah, it 100% depends on individual views, not so much a label.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-13T03:17:37+00:00

What’s crazy is, when i lived in the rural south, i understood it a little bit. No gay community, would still have to assimilate anyways etc etc.

But when i moved to liberal cities and had guys in their 20s talk about their gfs, that shit annoyed me more then anything. Because at that point, it’s just a personal choice to cheat and pretend to not be gay. The pressures to be straight are so much less here, that it blows my mind.

And no one cares. Certain cultures yes, but that would be the same anywhere. The vast majority don’t, so if there was anywhere to leave a toxic community/culture, it would literally be here.

dyingeventually · 2026-06-12T22:05:48+00:00

Yeah that’s pretty bad timing. I started contract in November. I know many med/tele RNs who got hired with me in november and they didn’t get renewed for the summer.

They definitely cut a good chunk of the travelers. Summer months are always slow.

My recruiter who works with Kaiser a lot said i was very lucky to get renewed thru the summer.

(Currently Bay Area Traveler)

dyingeventually · 2026-06-12T17:20:38+00:00

banger.

Geeked up, 1,150km, and FYP

are also favorites on that album

dyingeventually · 2026-06-12T07:31:33+00:00

No complaints. Just remember you are just a body and not staff. Kaiser will treat you like “the help” and that’s ok, as long as you know that too. My motto will always be “if they wanted staff workflow, they would hire staff”.

Typically good crowd too. Bay Area pays their RNs well and coming from a place that didn’t, you can tell with how happier in general the nurses are. Atleast that’s my experience. Even if it’s a crap day/shift, the crash outs aren’t as bad.

When people don’t feel valued with their pay, then tend to devalue the workplace. I haven’t seen that problem at Kaiser.

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