u/PuterCount

Looking for someone that just likes to talk. About little things, big things. Maybe even call sometimes. I’m talking strictly platonic as well (please don’t be weird).

I don’t game as much anymore but if you’d like to I’d love to. I mostly play Roblox these days (don’t knock it till you try it). I want to start back watching shows too. I just don’t have time for much outside of just texting and calling. I’m a nursing student… I like kpop. It’s my obsession. I’m learning Korean and Spanish. I’m like. Conversational in Spanish but I have no one to practice Korean with unfortunately. I feel like over the years I’ve become more boring. I’m chronically online. Ugh. I hope we can have meaningful conversations. ☹️

You can tell a lot about a person from their likes so: The Office, Parks and Rec, Steven Universe, kpop, Friends, thrifting, fashion, Undertale, GTA, medical topics…

I’ll add more as I think of them!

Also I saw that we can ask for local friends as well. If you’re in the northern part of Mississippi (going toward Tennessee) lmk!

TL;DR: A RT told me that being a nurse is awful. I’ve had negative and positive experiences with nurses, and it inspired me to be a nurse. The kind of nurse I’d want my mom to have. She kind of confirmed she was really hoping she’d depress me a little so I don’t trust her when it comes to advice about healthcare. So. Nicely worded advice, and opinions welcome.

I’m a CNA and a RT really went in on how I shouldn’t be a nurse. Or rather, she told me how awful it was. I told her I want to make a difference, she told me (more or less) “You will never make a difference. Healthcare doesn’t make people better. It makes people sicker so we can make money. You will never make a difference.” She told me how people will die and doctors will constantly scream at me. How family will scream at me. She told me how she had to do CPR on a newborn.

My thing is, I’m sure I will have awful days. But I don’t care. I’ll be there. I’ll be there to do CPR on that newborn. When I say I want to make a difference I don’t mean changing up the whole system. I mean being there for someone on the worst day of their life.

I’ve watched the healthcare system give me 40 years with my mom that was supposed to die at 5, then 20, then 27 when she had me then she wasn’t supposed to live past 30. But she made it to 42. There were nurses that I’m sure helped her through. They bought her little things and gave her company. She was deaf and they were patient with her which means so much more than you could know.

That’d be like if before I was a CNA, someone told me my residents would die, I’d be wiping butt all the time, and residents and families would scream at me. That happens, yes. But I love my residents. That outweighs everything. Having poop sprayed on me, the mystery fluids, being cussed out. It’s whatever. It’s part of the job.

She said that “It’s a good job if you like figuring things out.”

What if I just care about people? am I being naive, please be nice about it if I am. I don’t mind realism but there’s ways to go about it. 😭

Edit, as if this isn’t long enough: I kept telling her she was kind of crushing my spirit and there must be good sides to nursing and she said “Nope! 😃 “ and kept smiling and saying how she was glad to see that my energy had fallen after that conversation. So I can’t really trust her opinion on how nursing will be. I feel like she WANTED to talk me out of it for some reason.