u/RootsInThePavement

I posted before about being terrified of doing sanis. Recently I did one on a male and it went fine, but on the next male I got completely tripped up because the anatomy was a bit different. I can’t even wrap my head around how to do a female sani safely! It’s really getting to me and this is literally my only obstacle.

I think I’m just too in my head but I don’t know what to do. It’s really discouraging because I tell myself, “Yeah, I got this!” and then once I’m faced with it I chicken out. What the hell? I guess this is just a little rant; I don’t think I’ll get much different advice from what I got on my first post. Feeling a little sad and defeated :(

I was told that I wouldn’t be able to touch a dog (as a bather) until after I train, so I’m a bit confused and curious. I start this weekend and want to get a general idea of it!

Ive just started at a certain corporate salon and bathing involves sanis and paw pad trims. I’ve shaved out paw pads before, but not with “real“ clippers (they were these tiny safety trimmers from Amazon). I am not confident with professional clippers at all and am wondering how to get over my fear of accidentally slicing/maiming a dog?

I have OCD (harm subtype) so those thoughts are looping rn; the only real treatment is exposure therapy so hoping for some advice on how to cope with these fears during training!

I was in a good position at my old job for a year until my store started failing and losing a lot of profits. Hours for everyone were cut and I was moved to a different position that a) I didn’t want, and b) I was not skilled at. I wasn’t offered retraining and when I asked, they said they didn’t have the time or hours for someone to train me. I decided to give it my best shot and long story short, I failed. I would repeatedly ask for help and got very little support, management avoided me, and HR essentially told me that nothing could be done. Got a new job, place was great, they were really supportive. THAT job, however, wrecked me physically and I had to leave for my health.

Now I have another job that I’m excited for, but I’m also very nervous because my confidence is shot. I felt very useless in my last two positions, which isn’t normal for me. I’ve had so many promotions and raises in my life, opportunities to get into management and open stores, awards, employee of the month honors…like, I like to think that I’m a good worker and that I’m valued. But right now I feel small. Does anyone have any advice on how to overcome this?

It’s getting overwhelming. I’m constantly thinking about food and planning my next meal/snack. I do my hobbies: crafting, video games, walking, playing with the pets, and it persists. It happens at the gym too, thinking about what I’m going to eat after my work out and what we should have for dinner.

Chugging water doesn’t help and clearly occupying myself/my time doesn’t either. It’s leading to daily binging and I’m (very) slowly getting better at not eating out of boredom, but this is merciless and I feel trapped. Please help

Last year we bought some soaps that were SO good. We got a purple Lovespell soap, a green soap with green tea in it, and a frankincense soap. All had Kaolin clay in them. We’ve been wanting to re-up and I remember them having a website, but can’t remember their name! They sold candles as well.

I know this is a longshot but does anyone recognize this? I looked at the vendor list for this year and nothing jumped out at me. TIA!

I’m moving to Petsmart from a boarding salon, where I’d average $100 in tips per week. I’m taking a decent paycut, so I want to get a feel for what I can expect when it comes to tip out.

I’m going to be interviewing for a bathing position and honestly, I’m probably going to get it. I know that the general advice here would be to stay away, but after my first salon fucked me, I’m pretty excited to just get back into bathing again.

So. Aside from the general, “don’t” advice, what is it actually like there? I’m used to high volume so I’m not worried about that. TIA

I have a congenital heart defect that was fixed with surgery when I was a baby, and that surgery is now failing almost three decades later. As a result, my heart is starting to fail as well.

I’ve always faced fatigue due to my defect, but now it often becomes straight up exhaustion and it sucks. I move and think much more slowly than I used to and it interferes with my work. I’ve called out twice because of it and a common complaint from my coworkers is that I’m physically slow and don’t seem to “get” things. It’s humiliating. I’m trying to take things one day at a time and some days are better than others, but I don’t know how to get out of my head about it. :(

I don’t quite know what happened. Maybe it’s the toxicity or what’s demanded of me, I’m not sure.

I’ve been attending a program to become certified as a VA because most places in my area want that education. Meanwhile, I’ve been doing kennel tech and grooming stuff. I work in boarding facilities and recently moved to a medical boarding facility and I can’t connect to my tasks, animals, or coworkers. I don’t have the drive. It’s not even that it’s a different kind of beast, there’s just no spark. I dread work every day, even on my days off. It makes me not want to do this anymore.

At my last place I was offered no support, it was cliquey and I got bullied by four people, my manager was awful and did things like joke about not hiring mentally ill people, and said manager called me out publicly for having a nervous breakdown. I went on leave so the burn out should be gone, and I don’t FEEL burnt out, but who knows.

I’m sad to not have this passion right now. I don’t know what else I’d do with my life. Has anyone else gone through this? What did you do if you stayed in vet med and/or pet care?

I have mental and physical disabilities, and it’s been so hard recently…I wish I were healthy. I feel so physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted at work and today I had the biggest cry I’ve had in a while. I feel so stupid, slow, and disgusted with myself.

I’ve applied for disability before and got denied, currently working on another application with plans to appeal if it gets denied again. I want to quit my job so badly, every second is spent in pain and full of so much anxiety. 😥

All I want right now is to sleep and cry

I’ve been doing physical therapy for my pelvic floor and am excited to say that I can put a tampon in now without resistance, scraping, or it getting immediately pushed out a bit! This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve been able to do that and it feels amazing. I now want to get a dilator set, somehow that now seems less intimidating to me.

I don’t know if this can be fully cured, but this feels really great emotionally 💚

I’m doing a program through Penn Foster to get certified as a vet assistant. I’m loving all of the learning but I’m struggling with physiology and anatomy. I know this is a course that would have to be taken for any medical education, but I swear it’s dragging on and on.

I’m not sure how much of this I need to know. I’m taking notes, doing flash cards, writing down the lesson summaries/key points, utilizing the downloadable charts and external links…even cheating a bit when I’m truly stumped. But I’m only getting 65%-75% on assessments. It feels like too much knowledge and it’s difficult to grasp. I’ve done great (80% to 100%) on every unit otherwise, but I’m wondering how much of this I will use vs. how much I’ll be applying OTJ. It’s getting really discouraging.