The generation of women this coworker is a part of have very little superannuation, so I can understand it financially. We also work for a NFP, so they pay isn’t great. The particular area of nursing that we work in is very specialised and draws a specific type of person, so I understand her staying for the love of it.…

Thanks for the discussion about heroes and angels etc. I’ve always hated that way of describing us. Like we do it just for the love of it, and it’s because we are nice and caring and innocent. It’s something that takes away from the real issues of nursing - pay, conditions, workplace health and safety. I also wanted…

A coworker of mine, also a nurse (in her 50s), this week told her manager she plans to work until she’s 70. For the love of the job. If I’m still nursing at 70, someone kill me.

I’m also an RN, and have made it to the upper levels of nursing (RN grade 4 in Australia, not sure what that equates to in the US). I love my current job in community health, but I spend so much time on the phone and computer. I did post-grad studies (purely because I got a scholarship, not for the love of a…

Yep. I’m an RN and have a friend who I used to work with, who worked her way from medical receptionist to practice manager. The entire clinic would collapse without her. They wouldn’t be able to schedule appointments, understand all the IT programs, the billing, the recalls, stock ordering. She’s amazing.

We don’t hear anything about him unless it’s like Hollywood news stuff.

Succinct and correct.

I like him also because I think he’s quite funny. But also I have a sliding doors type thing, where my dad went to school with the Hemsworths’ dad and we used to spend summer holidays at the same place. If only my dad had kept touch with their dad and I was more attractive... ;)

My 7 years old has been seeing  child psychiatrist for a year for anxiety and self-esteem issues (generally caused by other health conditions) and this is my fear all the time. Every day. My own therapist has to remind me that my ‘big feelings’ and not the same as her ‘big feelings’ but still, it’s unrelentingly scary.

She is gorgeous and I’m very jealous of her beautiful skin.

“Can we add a tag for “excessive snark about something pretty harmless”?”.

Thanks to our Premier and Chief Health Officer. They have been amazing. Tough but got the job done. Showed up every single day to press conferences to update and explain everything. There’s even a song on Spotify featuring parts of his pressers - it’s called Get on the Beers by Mashd N Kutcher. Very amusing to us,…

I hope things change now you’ve chucked out Trump. Really. I can’t imagine how bad your health care professionals are dealing with all of the death and destruction. And non-health workers living in this state of what I assume is constant fear and confusion, and frustration.

Absolutely. He and Brett have done an amazing job. I hope people remember this in 2 years. I’m visiting patients in the hotels and they are still managed in a confusing way (for everyone) but at least we have housed nearly everyone and shown that it can be done. The thing that worries me is that I think people heard…

Ok here we go. I do not understand why your country is not enforcing mask usage or how many people can gather in one place or any of the other long list of things that are proven to stop the spread of COVID-19. I don’t understand why your health care workers don’t have access to the PPE they need, or why there aren’t…

Yep, covid-central. But we’re nearly there!

I love books and will never be an e-book reader. Audiobooks yes, for falling asleep to. But I love having books in my house and have a slight tendency to want to decorate my house in the manner of ‘The Burrow’ with wood and books and crocheted blankets etc. I am going through them all at the moment and taking out the…

My reaction moved from ‘oh’ to ‘ohhhhh’ to ‘oh no’ to ‘what the fuck....?’. Why? Why to all of it!?

I loved it. All of it, even when it got weird and almost jumped the shark. The ending was obviously a letdown but I will absolutely watch it when it comes back. 

It feels like the point would have to be “Joan is smarter or more articulate than Emily Ratajkowski.”.