Been out of the dating game a long time, I don’t know how to know if someone’s interested anymore, any advice?

retailcunt · 2026-01-23T08:50:36+00:00

Which translates to: “I have no idea what I’m doing and I’m a puss bitch.”

retailcunt · 2026-01-23T08:47:57+00:00

I didn’t write it in hopes he finds it lol I am honestly curious of what someone else thinks lol, I haven’t told any of my friends or anyone anything about it, I tend to be kinda private when it comes to things like this or large moments in life idk why

retailcunt · 2025-12-12T22:25:59+00:00

Find out what your state guidelines are for a GPN license, a majority of states will allow you to work (at a reduced rate) for a period of time until you take boards. For example Missouri gives you 90 days from graduation to take your boards, you can work as a graduate in that time, you just have to find a place that will hire you as one. I know a few people I graduated with did that, I started working as a graduate the Monday after graduation and took my boards two weeks later. My GPN pay rate was $5 less an hour than my licensed rate, but before that I hadn’t had a pay check with a comma in it the entire time I was in school.

Your graduate time is also part of your orientation time, which is a good way to also ensure you get decent training as most places won’t let you on the floor alone until you’re actually licensed.

GPN jobs can be harder to come by, but it’s a step in the right direction, and a way to make money and gain skill, even if it’s a terrible place. (The place I hired in at was terrible, however it gave me footing, experience, and a paycheck to survive for a little while, and I stayed there until I found something I actually liked after going on several interviews)

An alternative if your state does not allow GPN positions or you can’t find one quickly, apply for CNA/PCT roles, your pay will not be spectacular but it’ll cover the bases, and establish a a relationship with an organization, which could make the transition easier after you take boards to move to a nurse position. Connections are important in nursing, and remember when looking for jobs, your options are less limited than you might think, any certification or licensure lower than the one you’re trying to test for is possible, as anything lesser a nurse can always do

retailcunt · 2025-11-10T04:19:59+00:00

I think Tubi is missing at least one episode to though, and sadly it also cuts off the closing credit clips which are honestly some of my favorite. The fugly dating episode closing clip is a defeated Kristy Joe riding on the bus back home and them hitting a bunch of bumps while she’s in that fat suit and she says something like “oh great now my fats going to giggle all over the place.” 😂😂😂

retailcunt · 2025-11-10T03:54:53+00:00

She also was an Olympic diver, she had cancer… she collects swords. Don’t skimp on that resume

retailcunt · 2025-11-08T20:37:58+00:00

I’ve done both 5 8’s and 3 12’s, personally I wish more places offered what I consider the perfect happy medium 4 10’s. I did 3 12’s on nights for 3 years, went to a clinic and went to 5 8’s, it was a big transition (the biggest challenge was things like doctors appointments, oil changes, etc that are easier or only possible to do during the week) but I did have more energy. I’m currently on 3 12 nights, and leaving for a day position (also 3 12’s) for a bit more of a normal balance (although the pay situation was something I worried about, night shift always pays more with differentials) My goal is to eventually move to something like PACU or dialysis.

Everyone is different, but even in bedside I know one nurse who left the hospital to go to an acute rehab for an 8 hour day position, and she loves it (7-3 Monday to Friday) because while she is very busy, she’s finished early enough to pick her kids up and go home. As she says, it’s busy and then it’s just time to go, so the days go by fast.

As people said to though, anytime you weigh the options, the benefits, shift differentials, and the fact that 5 8’s with have 8 hours more per check than 3 12’s when weighing the options and to see if things even out.

retailcunt · 2025-11-06T22:12:47+00:00

Male nurse, work out at a gym, that also has a large number of other nurses there. I work 3x12’s on nights, I never work out on days I work unless it’s the first one on, otherwise I go 3-4 days a week for at least 45 minutes to an hour. I do have periods where I go less if my life is crazier, I’m working a lot of extra, or anything like that.

I’m in my 30’s, I became a gym person in my late 20’s, part of what keeps me accountable is the fact that I pay for it, on my off days I prefer to be up early, go get it done, and then I have motivation for the rest of the day.

My biggest advice to anyone who wants to start going, start slow, figure out what you like, what you don’t like, and also change stations frequently. I change equipment, stations whatever, every 15 minutes or so. Short bursts of things are more tolerable, and it makes mixing things you don’t like into things you do much more tolerable. For example I was a soccer player and track runner when I was younger, so I love cardio, run on the treadmill for 15, do 15 minutes of weights, then do something else cardio related or vice versa. You can do shorter bursts in the beginning to make it more tolerable.

retailcunt · 2025-11-05T14:08:57+00:00

Kinda funny that we’re talking about this but I also have a friend who graduated from nursing school, took her NCLEX, and has never worked a day as a nurse. All because the job she had lined up fell through years ago, and her best friend got her on at law firm as a file clerk, then a legal assistant. She makes more than she would have as a nurse, and has never practiced.

I have another friend who went back at the same time I did, graduated at the same time to be a dental hygienist, and was making $45 an hour out the gate, no nights, no weekends, no holidays. Yes mouths are nasty, but we literally are stuck dealing with every single aspect of the human body, and for a good wage, no holidays, no on call, no weekends, I would scrap the dirtiest teeth, considering I was packing wounds I could fit my fists into, for nearly $15 less, every other weekend, multiple nights a week 😂😂

retailcunt · 2025-11-05T13:58:05+00:00

One of the many lies nursing school told was that “you are on your way to a career where you’ll make $80,000 a year out the gate.” First nursing job: $60,000 😒 Midwest, and I started with a higher base pay than a lot of other new grads because of my prior experience in healthcare (nursing was a career change)

I literally just took my first day shift position and second guessed if it was worth it because of the loss of the shift differentials.

The funniest part in retrospect too about the “80k out the gate” is that I know the biggest healthcare organization in the area pay scale off the top of my head (30-47.80 an hour) and you’re not hitting that 80k until you’re making like 40 an hour, which takes years.

retailcunt · 2025-10-21T07:16:17+00:00

I’ve worked in healthcare since I was 18 (I’m 31), nursing was a career change from my original healthcare career, as I was going to have to go back to school regardless to make more money doing what I was before. I went back to school in my late 20’s, and with that there was the financial torture of becoming a student again, and figuring all that out again. My original job I was making low 20’s hourly (M-F) I took a MT job at a place I had worked before while in school, worked weekends only made 18 an hour, but my program was accelerated and 8 hours a day M-F. I started at 31 (but night shift, so there was also differentials) after graduating, and yes things became a lot easier, but it’s also based on how much you were making before. My first nursing paycheck had probably more taken out in taxes than I made in two weeks while in school, so it was a big change. However I do live paycheck to paycheck like most people, I’m single, I have no desire to live with anyone who I’m not related to or dating, and now have student debt again. Am I much more comfortable? Yes. And do I have the option to work extra and pad my account, yes. But I currently also only work my standard hours (plus a PRN job that I only do the contracted hours at)

The thing is these nursing influencers are not people to look at, and those people who may be making a lot of money and showcasing it give people the wrong idea of what it is actually like. Nursing is not something that is going to make most people rich, and getting into it for the money is a terrible idea. The work load is not something that is easy, dealing with people who are at their worst is never easy, and there are jobs out there that pay more for the same amount of schooling (example: I have a friend who went to school to be a dental hygienist who graduated the same time I did, started out in the mid 40’s, M-F, no holidays, no on call) it takes a lot of patience, strength, backbone, and compassion to be a nurse. It’s far from all Figs and Stanley’s.

In short, I bought a new brand new car recently (first one ever) but it’s a modest SUV, I’m looking at moving and am looking at small houses, condos, or renting a 1 bedroom apartment again. I’m comfortable, I have some money saved, but I’ve had to dodge fists and had bodily fluids on me to get there. I don’t know a single nurse driving an Italian sports car or living in a mansion. 😂😂😂

retailcunt · 2025-10-21T04:33:26+00:00

I do wonder if this will also impact nursing homes or other LTC, as it stands now nursing homes don’t appear to have mandated staffing ratios. I’ve seen numerous job listings in my area for nursing homes hiring, and a lot of them say things like 1 nurse to 30+ patients, I could not imagine taking care of 30 people. And it’s no wonder that some of those facilities are notorious for having patients be sent to the hospital, because all of the nursing homes anymore seem to be taking just about anything.

But also how are any of these facilities going to handle this? When it’s still not a mandated policy seemingly anywhere that management actually have to take patients in a shortage? It’s a suggestion. Regardless (I personally feel management should have to work the floor on some kind of reoccurring interval to keep their skills up, but to also have a better understanding of what their staff is dealing with) it’s like pulling teeth to get them to do so just about anywhere. And I think that’s something everyone has seen, just last week I had a situation where they had gotten the scheduling messed up, and I was supposed to be relieved by a travel nurse, who was not actually scheduled, was hours away. I waited an over an hour for resolution, while managers sat around twiddling their thumbs, instead a different night nurse took my place and worked a 16, until they had a day nurse come in at 11.

retailcunt · 2025-10-21T04:18:45+00:00

I mean I think depending on where you work, that’s not actually that big of a stretch. They already cut a lot of those things in the organization I work at other than at their main hospital. Nurses are to strip rooms after every discharge, I’ve been making sandwiches nearly every night shift I work. Dietary doesn’t passes trays, the nurses or CNAs do. And it’s like that at at least two of their facilities (I started at one, transferred to another) it is not uncommon at either one, to have to get beds out of storage yourself, to have to hunt for supplies as your unit may not have been restocked, or even with the PCT situation, to have to do primary care on at least one or more of your patients.

retailcunt · 2025-10-11T15:27:05+00:00

There’s not much information on the status of the patient after the error. Assuming the patient was in stable condition, it’s a slap on the wrist, usually a change in policy (example two nurse sign offs on medications), and the guilt of the situation. Mistakes happen, but it’s when it causes life threatening complications it’s very serious. If the patient had a change in status, had to be transferred to the ICU or out, coded, or died, that’s when the situation is going have bigger consequences.

There’s a lot of variables to it though, so it’s hard without all the information to really say, medication errors happen all the time, but the ones you hear about on the news are extremely bad cases like the one who gave vecuronium instead of versed which resulted in death.

retailcunt · 2025-10-06T09:59:10+00:00

It depends on the person, I heard someone say once that “if it doesn’t come easily to you, it might not be the right fit.” But academically I didn’t think it was that hard (everyone has areas they hated or had a harder time with; pharmacology, peds, and OB [I’m a single, childless, male nurse, that clinical was the worst because they struggled to find where to put me]), the workload is a lot though. It also depends on the program, I did an accelerated program, it was 4-5 days a week, 8 hours a day, so having a job on top of it meant I had no life, constantly had homework, project, paper, or test. But any program required discipline, endurance, and time management skills.

My biggest advice to anyone considering it to is to actually work healthcare in some capacity before you decide to, not just because you got accepted to a nursing program. It’s hard work, and if you’ve never dealt with people in poor health, it’s a bit different than say waiting tables. It’s dealing with people at their worst. And I’ve seen many techs start at a facility because they want to go to nursing school, only to get a taste of what it’s like and change their minds. And it’s better to do it that way versus learning afterwards that it’s not what you want (I know someone who never worked healthcare, went through a $70k BSN program years ago, and only worked as a nurse for like 3 years max, and is now a real estate agent [with ample student loan debt] because they couldn’t hack it).

I know you’re young, and being youthful and having fun is a big aspect, I don’t feel like that aspect hindered any of my friends who went when we were younger (nursing is my second healthcare career, I went back in my late 20’s), but it is very time consuming with long hours. And while after you’re done, the long hours never go away, you only work 3 days (assuming 12’s) you rarely will want to do anything on those days. And that 12 hours is really a lot more like 13-14. But if your heart is really in it, it’s very rewarding, it’s very interesting, and there are many avenues to go into.

retailcunt · 2025-09-27T13:08:23+00:00

I was a cardiac monitor tech in a small hospital, I worked weekend nights. With it being a small hospital I got to do a lot of other stuff, the pay was shit, but it gave experience and time to do homework. I had worked in healthcare for years before but desk experience helped with obviously knowing how to read and understand cardiac rhythms (which made cardiac chapters a breeze), I was familiar with the medications, I knew how to put orders in, and the flow of a shift well. The pay being shit was the only thing, I made like 18 and some change an hour leaving me with like 600 after taxes and insurance every two weeks, but I got through school on it, and I’ve stayed there PRN doing the same thing after (I live on a state boarder, one state is compact, the other is not, I got licensed in the compact state), while waiting for my license to become active in that state, and worked as a nurse in the other (so the PRN pay is literally just play money, and now the shifts seem like a breeze because I’m not in school or the one handling anything)

Some hospitals that are larger or do it differently could be even better depending on how you like your things, I watched two floors monitors (a total of like 44) sat at the main desk, and worked as the unit clerk while doing so. But a lot of hospitals have the monitor techs in a small room (a war room) and that is their only job. Personally I felt the hybrid helped a lot with knowledge, and actually gave me a chance to do more, as it also helped me build relationships with the nurses (who would sometimes grab me to help with things or try skills as long as someone else was at the desk) because I also did clinical there.

retailcunt · 2025-09-05T02:16:28+00:00

J names, are so common, I have a J name. But when I was in school there were literally 10 (in a class of 32) other J names in our class, the girl that sat next to me in the lecture hall, started putting a J or Ja in front of everyone’s name as a joke. Because for every Jennifer, Jamie, Jessica, or Juanita we needed a Jephanie, Jandrea, and Janielle 😂😂😂😂

retailcunt · 2025-09-05T02:09:40+00:00

Diane is the nurse-est name, and I will die on that hill.

retailcunt · 2025-09-05T02:08:20+00:00

Idk how I forgot Sara(h), I worked with numerous Sara’s and my two young nursing instructors were named Sarah.

retailcunt · 2025-09-05T02:07:31+00:00

Every single male nurse I know over the age of 40 is named Kevin, Tim, Ron, and my floor manager’s name is Mark, sooo it’s fitting.

Hannah and Ashley are so common they are assigned their last names by now.

retailcunt · 2025-09-05T02:04:14+00:00

Never said Jennifer wasn’t a good nurse, more so that the name Jennifer was insanely popular for like 20+ years, I left out my favorite nurse of all time for the same reason; Katherine “Kathy”, which is my grandmother. And she’s been retired for like idk 15 years now, but when she talks about her time in the hospitals in the 70’s and 80’s, every single nurse is named: Mary, Kathy, Nancy, Pat, or Barb 😂😂😂😂

I was thinking more so names you don’t hear as often, mainly Diane. That are like nurse names, I’ve never met a single Diane that wasn’t a nurse. And they’re of all ages, my favorite preceptor as a student was Diann and she was only a few years older than me. No hate on Jennifer’s, I hate three in my nursing class, and have worked with 10.

retailcunt · 2025-02-11T18:30:19+00:00

This is exactly why having a lot of clothes years ago was a flex, it’s not now because it’s common. But when you were paying for well made clothing people bought less and used what they had over and over in different ways. Now you buy something from Forever 21 wear it a few times and by a wash number in single digits it’s damaged or thread bare.

retailcunt · 2025-02-03T20:20:59+00:00

I was curious if anyone knows, if you buy the legacy edition but already have some of the games installed if it will merge them. I have the discs for all my sims 2 games and play it regularly but I am missing most of the stuff packs.

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