hardest jobs...

[travelRN]

Hey, how about a little sympathy for the guy pushing the adenosine at 3AM, watching the patient with one eye while keeping the other on the tele monitor hoping (praying) that asystole is temporary. A hospital at night is an alternate reality, isn't it?

I am totally with you on that one!!! I am a night shift ICU nurse. I used to work at Shands at UF in Neurosurgery. Try getting a patient in the middle of the night that crashes and ends up needing basically surgery at bedside. But can we really say that it is AWFUL? It is kinda fun at times - morbid I know, but an adrenalin rush.

 

[NoHall]

Being a substitute teacher in a room with 30 16-year-old kids for an hour and a half. Rewarding and not so easy at the same time.

The last (this is a key word) time I subbed at the local middle school, I had 60 (not a typo) 6th graders for the last period of the day. Alone. And their teacher actually thought they would sit peacefully and watch "The Sound of Music."

Hey, how about a little sympathy for the guy pushing the adenosine at 3AM, watching the patient with one eye while keeping the other on the tele monitor hoping (praying) that asystole is temporary. A hospital at night is an alternate reality, isn't it?

That sounds awful, but I'd be more sympathetic if I knew what adenosine was, and didn't look at "asystole" and see another word with an a, an s, another s, and ending with o-l-e. I didn't know they had monitors for that, and I don't see many that are temporary...

But the whole "alternate reality" "adrenaline rush" reminds me of my youth as a lifeguard. Lots of stories. But my favorite is from working at a camp in central Florida. One of those sudden summer storms hit and there was lightening everywhere while I had kids in the pool and out on the lake. We were short-staffed, and the camp leaders were putting kids on the paddleboats. A boat with 4 kids (2 too many) were stuck in the middle and guess who got to SWIM out there in gator-infested water (alright--the gators were only about 2 feet long) to pull the boat in? I took the rest of the day off...

 

[bluemtnrunner]

I think I win this one

Ha! You call those hard? Right after I graduated high school I moved to NC and I worked in the tobacco fields. Sun up in the fields the huge leaves were soaking wet and the temperature was in the 40's-50's. Walk up and down the rows in a duckwalk stance to be low enough to get the bottom leaves. Put the leaves (2'long/1' across) under your arm so we were soaked from our wrist, to our armpits and then down to our waist. BUT WAIT, it got better as the sun burned off the dew and temp climbed to 90 and the tar in the leaves soaked through our clothes into our skin resulting in a nice case of tobacco poisoning (like poison ivy only worse). AH but there were benefits....$4.50 an hour and a free Coke and pack of nabs (peanut butter crackers) during the 10:00 and 3:00 breaks (we brought our own lunch which we ate with tar covered hands). Being a software tech is definitely much much better.

 

[kathydwells]

Hardee's, morning shift making biscuits for people who had not had their caffeine fix at 5:00 in the morning. Truly I saw the worst of the worst in the human population.

 

[Kimmifunn]

Personal assistant!

 

[Angelrlc]

Working with the public is pretty interesting. But, I believe everyone should work for the public at one point in their life just to see how everyone acts. Not everyone is very nice..lol

 

[Miss Kitty]

Working with the public is pretty interesting. But, I believe everyone should work for the public at one point in their life just to see how everyone acts. Not everyone is very nice..lol

Agree! I have often said that everyone needs to work retail the week after Christmas.

 

[sonny]

I have had many, many jobs. The worst by far was working for my grandfather-who was a masonary contractor. I was 16 in Memphis trying to make money to go on a church trip to...you guessed it...Destin. It was summer and in memphis that means it is hotter than hail. We had to wear jeans, boots, long sleeve shirts and hardhats on the job. I was what they call a hodcarrier. I made mortar mix for the bricklayers, cleaned the morter off of the bricks, helped load bricks and general clean up of all debris. We started at 6a.m. and since he was the boss/owner & my ride, we didn't leave until sundown. I was in the best shape of my life and made alot of money. (for a 16 year old) If i would've stuck with that job I could retire now, or at least work in the office estimating. I wouldn't last 5 minutes now.:funn:

 

[Angelrlc]

Oooo week after Christmas is bad! I worked as a server for a while. Which is why I can be a pretty gracious tipper when it comes to customer service. I give props to anyone that is a server or works at a restaurant...whew

 

[Kimmifunn]

im pretty sure i have all of you beat.. the hardest job ever.. by far.. is working in Alabama's largest florist on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.. so many flowers everywhere.. terrible hours.. you work like 3 17 hour days back to back to back.. pure heck...and i have to partake in it in a couple of days

:funn:SUCKER