• QTpi@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Early in my career, I picked up as much overtime as I could at the hospital. I worked 13 days in a row with three of the those days being 12 hour shifts. My coworkers informed that I was a real removed after day 7 and it would be better for all of us if I didn’t work more than seven days in a row.

    I took their words to heart. There’s working hard to get ahead and then there is killing yourself and making everyone around you miserable.

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      1 year ago

      You hospital workers have insane schedules! All of you! I’ve heard of resident doctors working 36 hour shifts. How do they even function?

      I have a friend who is a nurse and he takes all the worst shifts because they pay the best. He doesn’t have a family, so it only impacts him, and he’s living a FIRE lifestyle (which he’s hella good at). But he lost a ton of weight and was as white as a vampire last time I saw him because he never sees the sun. That’s taking it a bit too far IMO. But I’m sure he’ll be the one laughing when he retires with a paid off house and no debt in a few years.