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I always enjoyed explaining to patients what we do, why, what they should do for aftercare and what happens afterwards. What I don’t like is the grind that’s nursing and how immature, lazy and uneducated, proud antivaxers, many nurses I work with are. The subjects don’t seem that difficult, it would be simply studying more comprehensibly anatomy, biology, chemistry, medicines, OR, legal… I find it realistic to pass this bachelor but I’m on the older side already. My fears are: a reduced job pool: everyone needs nurses, but the need for PAs is not as big. I’d have less choice. age discrimination: true that most of us will have to work till 70 or 72 but I’m still afraid of being rejected for being old. OTOH: better work life balance and clearly more money in a field that’s not completely unknown to me and I don’t hate.

I just found out about JADE, “don’t justify, argue, defend, explain” and I could use it with my dispatcher, an older man who’s been there longer than me and feels entitled to act like my manager. We work with wifi based smartphones which are not reliable and slow. Sometimes I have to upgrade android myself because the employee in charge of doing that simply doesn’t. Every day the devices hang, meaning communication with the dispatcher is not possible, nor can I phone in (wifi based), nor can I check the task phase I am currently in (if the task is about to be done, if it’s being done, if it’s been done). When this happens, to avoid wasting time I simply do the job and then click through, something that seems to irritate this dispatcher extremely. Sometimes I get an urgent order, not through the smartphone but given verbally. When this happens I don’t wait for the task to appear on my device, something that can last 15 minutes, but simply tell the coworker who gave me the order to type it in the database, do the task and then click through. This also pisses this dispatcher off. There are 8 dispatchers I work with. Only this one is the problematic one: he likes to ask per chat if the smartphone works ok, to which I answer it works like everyday: with broken wifi, the application hanging, black spots with no reception… His answer is always: the smartphone works, which pisses me off, because it’s not true and he just won’t listen. I get so angry thinking about it because it’s like working with an inflexible person incapable of showing empathy, unwilling to learn, who blames me for things I cannot control. I already had a conversation with my union rep and with my manager about this but it seems I’ll have to contact my rep again. How would you use JADE here? blatantly ignoring him each time he asks if my device works? Should I bluntly write back: Mr A, we’ve had this conversation several times already and it doesn’t make any sense to talk to you because you’re way too deep in your biases and you don’t listen. Should you have any complains about my work, talk to our manager. Now, please, let me do my job. I don’t know how to deal with this person.

I don’t like her romantically and want nothing sexual with her either. She acts desperate to talk to me, won’t get into more details. I could act busy each time she approaches me, and avoid her as much as I can but I don’t know if I should tell my manager about this. I don’t even know what I’d tell a manager: “I’m informing that I want nothing to do with X and I’m going to keep my conversations with her to a minimum”? Another idea: be boring as f*ck. Ideally I could tell her directly I’m not interested / I don’t befriend coworkers (not true but it would work to soften the blow), but I simply don’t know how defensive she’s gonna get, laugh it off or accuse me of playing games.

cross-posted from: linux.community/post/4052877 don’t give me the it’s never too late bs. Life happens, people have jobs, debts and rent to pay. Going back to school when you’re employed means debt, earning way less or nothing during your bachelor or master, stress, opportunities you’re not aware of because you’re simply not at your workplace anymore, unpaid overtime during those 2 to 3 years… the money you lose is more than what the bachelor / accreditation costs. When does it start being a stupid idea? Is it when you’re 30? 40? 50?