“Name One Thing In Your Industry That The General Public Would Be Shocked To Know” (35 Answers)
Interview
Let’s face it, Pandas, there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ job. However green the grass might look on the other side, the fact of the matter is that every profession comes with its own long list of pros and cons, challenges and issues, as well as a sliding scale of stress. However, that doesn’t mean that all jobs are equal. Far from it. Some jobs, as you’re about to find out, have some genuinely unpleasant secrets hidden amongst all the skeletons.
Dr. Anna Schozer, a veterinarian and social media content creator, went viral after posting a video (and an in-depth follow-up) where she asked working professionals to share the things in their industry that the general public would be shocked to know. And shocking is putting it mildly. We’ve collected the best responses to the vet’s video to share them with you. Some of these candid clips might be enough to make someone even reconsider their dream career. Others remove the romanticism and show the reality.
As you’re scrolling down, think about some of the biggest upsides and downsides of your own job paths, dear Pandas. You can warn—or encourage—the other readers (not) to follow in your footsteps in the comments.
Bored Panda reached out to Dr. Anna and she was kind enough to walk us through how vets can deal with aggressive clients, shared what can be done to improve the situation of professionals in her industry, and gave advice for those of you Readers who might dream about helping animals in the future.
"The way I approach an aggressive client is to try to understand why they are feeling so upset/angry. For example, if they are upset over long wait times, I try to explain the staffing crisis and that there are simply not enough veterinary professionals to take care of the increasing number of pets. If they are upset over prices, I explain that I am not the one who makes those decisions. I also bring up pet insurance, and payment plan options to help financially. If the client cannot be settled down, sometimes it ends in the hospital asking them to leave as we cannot service those who do not respect us," she explained to us. Scroll down for the full interview.
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Vet Anna started up a trend on TikTok and got people talking about industry secrets that would shock the public
Her initial video quickly went viral after she shared a horrifying fact about working as a vet
@annaschozer ill do a pt 2 to elaborate 😔 #vettok #stitchthis #stitchthisvideo #vetmed #vetnurse #vettech #prevet #vetstudent #veterinarian #vetmedtok ♬ original sound - Dr. Anna Schozer, DVM
She went into detail about the challenges that professionals in her industry face in a follow-up video
@annaschozer Reply to @baileyhice #veterinarymedicine #nomv #vetmedtok #vettok #petparent #petparents #vetnurse #vettech #prevet #vetstudent ♬ Love Is Gone (feat. Dylan Matthew) (Acoustic) - SLANDER, Dylan Matthew
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I'm a registered nurse. I've worked in New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Florida, and now Oregon. As a travel nurse in Oregon, I get a 45-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks. And people here make fun of the East Coast. They laugh and say, "Oh, how was it with your ratios? How was it with not getting to eat?" In Florida, I can tell you as a nurse, I was lucky to go seven or eight hours and maybe get a 30-minute break. I don't drink for six or eight hours. I don't have an opportunity to go pee and these are the expectations. This has been normalized for so long, and it's a considerable law. Why is it okay for us to not have lunch breaks? Why is it okay for us to run ourselves into the ground? Why is it okay for us to hide in the closet and shovel peanut butter and crackers and chuck a Gatorade so that we don't pass out while we're taking care of your family members? We need to fix this. We deserve to have breaks.
Nurses need to have a 5 course meal served to them on gold plates every single day. You have my utmost respect and thanks for all you do!
Bored Panda wanted to understand how Dr. Anna deals with the stress of her job, and what could be done on a larger scale to help improve the job satisfaction of vets.
"The way I manage my stress levels is by making it a priority to take time for myself away from work. This usually takes place in the form of a workout, or a walk with my dog," she shared that she has very clear boundaries between her work and her private life in order to recharge.
If you don't use the word "wedding", that cake's gonna be a lot cheaper. I just helped the lady who kept calling it "birthday cake layers" and she saved about 50% on that cake.
I'm a nurse and I worked at a hospital when COVID first started. There are a lot of messed-up things that never made the news. I remember this one night so vividly. We were running short on ventilators. I was on the COVID unit and there was one doctor that would walk around every single room, see how the patients were doing, and if they were older over the age of 70 or more, they would contact their family members and say, "Hey, do you want your family member to be a DNR or DNI? Because we don't have ventilators." The other thing I talk a lot about is how they threatened healthcare workers that if they wear masks, they would be written up because they didn't want to scare the patients. All N95s were locked up and you could only have them if you were doing airalising procedures, which is exactly why I think the CDC refused to acknowledge that it was airborne because of the mass shortage. And I know you can say the CDC didn't see this coming, but it was their job to see this coming. This entire organization, this whole country failed us as healthcare workers and I will never stop talking about it.
Everyone knows what the CDC was doing....it was following the orders of the Trump cartel. However....the internet is a thing, coverage was constant the world over, and the vast majority of the world reacted quickly and appropriately to minimize the threat. Romania, for instance began lockdowns in February of 2020, exceptions being for grocery, doctors and pharmacy with requirement to carry a form detailing the time you left, how long you planned to be out and where you were going. Masks were required for TWO YEARS, failure to adhere to these measures meant fines, and repeated failures meant jail. Meanwhile the US refused to wear masks, railed against fines, treated border closings as evidence of racism, and made exceptions for masks based on perceived racism as well. Americans looked at what the majority of the world was doing, chose to abide by corrupt dissenters and continues to complain about how 'merica didn't do nothing wrong because it was all "bad information"
According to the vet, there are many things that could be done to improve the situation for people in her industry. For instance, lowering the debt-to-income ratio would "relieve a large amount of stress" from veterinarians' plates. "Most of us in the veterinary profession do not make enough to cover our bills, and are forced to pick up extra jobs or shifts—working overtime. This change would help with the second improvement I would suggest—which is increasing the staff force. This field is overwhelmingly understaffed," she shared with Bored Panda.
"This usually means staff members staying late, being called in on their days off, and long wait times for clients. Third would be for pet owners to be understanding of the crisis we are facing in this profession, and to be patient and kind with us," Dr. Anna said.
I used to manage a Verizon Wireless and we'd have to call customer service pretty often to help out customers, right? Well, I would call the same number that you guys do for customer service. The only difference is to get to a person almost instantly with the lowest wait time. I would hit 0#0#0# and then it would bring me to a live person. After learning this, I started using this trick for almost anytime I had to be on the phone dealing with a fake automated system and I'm gonna say eight times out of 10, it works and forwards you through to a real person after like a minute. DCU, it's worked for me, Bank of America, Verizon, Sprint has worked, Comcast has worked. There are other random little ones that have also worked. Oh, Google Financing will also work with 0#0#0#. Like I said, not all of them will work, but give it a shot. You might just skip the line.
Let's talk about post-mortem care or after-death care, okay? A lot of people don't realize that when a resident dies, we actually have to care for them. They don't... they don't just die and they're gone. That consists of an RN or two LPNs collectively calling the time of death, it's TOD. Then the CNAs on shift have to stop what they're doing no matter what, and go into that room and perform actual care. For me, that would consist of turning the AC down as to preserve the body, keep it cold in the room. It also consists of doing a full bed bath and the bed, hair, face, body, everything. Then you'd have to roll that resident, change the linens, change their clothes and get them covered back up so they look comfortable. This next step always gets me. You have to be there when their loved ones are there and watch their grieving, or you have to be there when no loved ones show up for said resident and you're the one to grieve. And that's just it in a nutshell.
I have a geology degree that I've never used professionally, so I am going to show you the most [messed up] things I can do with it. Oh, you found a bone on the ground and you want to know if it's a fossil or a dead animal. Literally, any other field of science is going to tell you take it home, do some tests on it, examine it, date it, whatever. What's a field geologist gonna do - they lick it. As a fossil will stick to your tongue but a modern bone will not. You might be like, "But gee, Lauren, how often does that mean you've licked animal bones?" Next question, please. You found a fairly smooth sedimentary rock. Is it siltstone or mudstone? Guess what you do. No, a field geologist isn't going to look at it, they're gonna chew it. So you just take a little bite, rub it between your teeth. If it has a toothpastey texture, then that's a siltstone, if it has a peanut buttery creamy texture, then it is a mudstone.
Why is darker side of my brain telling to lick random animal bones I find when camping and digging?… I really don’t think I will, but a good portion of me was like “Hmmm, I wonder how true this is. Let’s find out!”
We were curious as to what Dr. Anna would tell those who dream of becoming vets. She stressed that it's vital to "always remember" why you're doing this. "The veterinary field is one of, if not the most stressful field to work in. Remembering WHY you wanted to become a veterinarian (or veterinary nurse, receptionist, etc.) in the first place, will help you stay centered on the crazier day," she opened up.
"Another piece of advice would be to chase your dream, no matter what. There will always be individuals who do not believe you can do it, or will try to steer you away from the profession. However, if veterinary medicine is truly your passion—do not give up!"
In the UK, there is absolutely no regulation whatsoever around being a therapist, counselor, or psychotherapist. Anyone, absolutely anyone with absolutely no qualifications, can put a sign on their door saying they're a counselor, and there is nothing legally that can be done about it. It is outrageous and dangerous and radically needs changing.
Germany is similar, unfortunately. There are certain term that are protected, but anyone can call themselves a therapist and wreak havoc on vulnerable people.
If you've ever wondered why Toyota has higher quality numbers pretty much every year than any US automaker, it's because Toyota spends time engineering every single part and system to make sure there are as little or as few defects as possible. GM, Ford, Chrysler, or Fiat, none of them do that. They all allow a certain number of defects in every part of every system. So I wouldn't buy US autos if I were you. I'm going to stick to my Japanese babies.
I had a 1974 Toyota Corolla that had 385, 000 miles on it. I miss that car.
I work in the supplements industry and I see a lot of companies that actually make up the terms to sound legit so you can pay more, but those terms actually have no meaning. Here are a few examples. First, if they say they're tested by an "FDA approved laboratory", don't believe them because the FDA does not approve any laboratories. Second, if they say they're "third-party tested" without telling you which third party, chances are, they're not third-party tested. Because if they were, trust me, they want to put it out there. And this next one is very common, I see it all the time. "Contains clinically tested ingredients". Now keep in mind that just because an ingredient is tested does not mean it's proven to work because it can be tested and proven not to be working. You see what they're doing here? Last, if they say they're a "Pharmaceutical grade" product, don't believe them because again, no such thing.
"these products are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure disease " because if they were, they would be drugs and therefore subject to regulations. Supplements can do whatever the F they want
Dr. Anna probably stunned more than just us when she spoke about how veterinarians have a very high rate of suicide, compared to other professions. This probably clashes wildly with how many people imagined the life and work of a vet. It’s shocking to learn that someone who helps fluffy and cute animals all day long can, in fact, be pushed to the brink. However, the reality of the job is actually very harsh.
The vet explained in a follow-up video why the job of professionals like her is far from the fairytale that many imagine it to be.
I am a notary signing agent. I work in the real estate/loan industry and I get paid anywhere between $100 to $250 an hour to watch people sign documents.
I feel like some dentists are gonna get really mad at me for this one. Most people already know that there's good and bad people in every profession and dentistry is no different. There was one thing that always pushed my buttons when I saw a patient come in that was with a dentist like this. And this is when a dentist over-treats. See, when a person gets a cavity, it starts off really, really small, and then when it gets to the outer layer of your tooth, it spreads like crazy and then you have this big cavity mess you got to get filled. The thing is, if you catch the really small first initial lesion, if you just brush your teeth, use some fluoride or some other things like that, you can remineralize it and be just fine. Now, in my opinion, I think you should try and remineralize those teeth and not damage them if possible. And if it gets worse, then yeah, do the filling. But there's another camp of dentists that are over treaters that the second they see anything, it's an automatic filling and also some automatic money in their pocket. And that's how you get the stories of people going to one dentist and having 20 cavities and then going to another dentist and only having like two. Oh yeah, a lot of you might have had a bunch of cavities that you didn't have to get filled. Sorry.
Every profession has its weirdos. My first dentist was a sadist. He drilled out three molars with no pain killer at all. Then he stepped back and laughed at me because I broke out into a sweat. I was in my early teens. Still can't ever trust a dentist.
This happened to me too, 6 fillings without anaesthesia as the dentist said I was too young to feel anything. He then got mad when I kept jerking my head away from him. I've since had much better dentists and I ask them to tell me exactly what's going on as they do it, which really helps.
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My daughter seemed to be getting cavities at every dentist appointment and she's been diligent about her oral health. I don't want to know how much out of pocket moola I spent on unnecessary procedures and I hope none of the more uncomfortable procedures weren't one of the unnecessary ones. I think, and to be frank this is coming from a person stand point, if the dentist either knows or perceives you as low income, a young mom, on benefits, disabled SOME dentists use prejudices to assume their, and their child's, oral health isn't being looked after. They don't speak to you in a "I'm-just-giving-you-some-extra-advice" tone, they assume you're just not taking care of your teeth and too uneducated/ignorant to follow advice, so they just set an appointment to go ahead with unnecessary procedures so they can get more money out of treating you. They'll even botch it so you have to come back to get it fixed. If you feel something's not right, you should be free to get up and leave for good
I was losing all my teeth and had 3 different dentists tell me that eventually I'd need dentures. But they wouldn't go ahead and remove them; they wanted to save them...at HUGE cost to me. Didn't have the money for that so I suffered for years. Got micro abcesses across most of the top. Ended up in hospital septic. They called in a dental surgeon. He told hubby to bring me back the next week claiming to be in pain. Went in the next week and he removed all but 2 top teeth. Because I was in the hospital, my medical insurance covered it. He was pissed when hubby told him it had been almost 8 years and no one would remove them. He said they should have done it as soon as they knew I was going to lose them anyway, but they wanted $$$. Took another 4 years to get the rest. I vetted the hell out of the surgeon and dentist first
I also work in the dental field and have worked at a few different offices and this is so true! And so sad to me!
My dentists in the last ten years have come in two flavors: dentists (and technicians) who tell me my teeth are WONDERFUL, keep doing whatever you're doing! And dentists who think my teeth are TERRIBLE, you're not flossing enough omg. What was really crazy was the dentist who practically ROLLED HER EYES in disbelief when I told her I flossed daily... and then the next time I came into her office told me that my dental hygiene was GREAT! And I hadn't changed my tooth-cleaning routines AT ALL between visits. wtf??
Unless you go to an independent dentist ( an even they are guilty sometimes), all they do is sell, sell, sell, sell. You deep cleaning, you need a laser gum treatment, root canals, etc., I had a tooth that was not so good and they told me I needed a root canal. I couldn’t afford it so I said just pull the tooth. They kept pressuring me for the root canal. I finally was like just pull the tooth!
Exactly! When did they start pimping these "deep cleanings" / jet ski payments?!? I don't ever remember that till recently. They stick your gums with a sharp, pointy thing and if it hurts you need a deep cleaning... 🤬 And if you don't react they just poke harder until you say ouch. Criminals.
Load More Replies... I've had fillings repaced by a dentist every three years. Turns out they are meant to last twenty years. Its all aboit the money.
They aren't "meant to last 20 years". Hell, they won't even last 2 years if your oral hygiene and diet habits are c**p. It's NOT all about the money everywhere. Most of us actually care about your health! Your comment is stupid.
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I once had to go to a dentist to have a tooth removed because I partially lost it because of a cavity. Tooth was taken out and then they scheduled me for a teeth cleaning. My teeth needed it any way. I was told I only had to pay $119 to get my teeth cleaned. When I went in, the dentist cleaned my teeth and then said that they had to get my teeth capped. I said I don't want my teeth capped but no matter how many times I said no, he kept repeating they need to be capped. They're my teeth and it should be my choice if I cap them or not. Not only that but, when I went yo pay for my teeth cleaning, what was going to be $119 was now $300 bucks. Wish I hadn't thrown away the receipt. Not only could I have had proof about how much I was actually going to pay and pay it but, just imagine if I was taken to court. I'd have proof the dentist was ripping me off.
I trust my dentist. His whole family are dentists and they rotate around smaller towns in the county. Never known him to over treat or overcharge, and anyone else I know who has him thinks he is an amazing, kind man. They are not all rotten.
Never go to a corporate run dentistry. Remember, they about profit. My independent dentist told me stories how people came to him saying that As*pen Dental told them they had multiple cavities. He examined their teeth and found no cavities!
Once when I was a kid, they found a tiny cavity during a cleaning, but they didn't have availability to fill it that day, so they made an an appointment for later in the week. So all that week, I brushed and brushed and brushed as much as I could, thinking I could brush the cavity away and maybe not have to get a filling (kid logic!). Then when I went back, they couldn't find the cavity anymore. I was like, hey, it worked!! I didn't know you could remineralize small cavities at the time. Yay!
Case in point my dentist retired and her practice was bought, next dentist came in and told all the patients they needed 2 & 3 crowns. Even for crowns that had no problems with them. So many of the newer dentists only see dollar signs, I’ve already scheduled with another dentist and won’t be going back.
My just-retired dentist always chose to remineralize. I dread the over-treaters.
I didn’t see a dentist for 30 years- no money and fear driven avoidance. Finally went, expecting to need root canal etc, NO CAVITIES AT ALL. He said I had excellent dental hygiene.
I moved to another city, found a dentist for my 6 month checkup. He said I needed 6 fillings. Told him I traveled for work, would go back and check my schedule to set up the appointments. Instead, called my cousin, a dental hygienist and made appointment to see her dentist in a nearby city. He checked my teeth, said 2 needed watching but I didn't need any fillings - NONE. Never went back to that A**hole where I lived. Twice a year I went to her dentist until I found a good one.
My sister and I went to the dentist alone a lot when we were young because my mom was working. My sister called me one time freaking out because she had lost a filling, But...on examination of the tooth, there was absolutely Nothing wrong with it.
I always get my (relatively few) cavities filled without anesthetic. I have a morbid fear of needles due to a weird hereditary thing where my blood pressure and heart rate plummet when I get a puncture wound - I stepped on an earring by accident once, didn't realize what happened, just felt a sharp pain and woke up on the floor with a concussion... after breaking out into a cold sweat, thinking I was suddenly dying - I always ask them to check for spots that look like they're about to turn into cavities. A few dentists had an absolute field day with this and I had to keep switching until I found one that gave me an honest assessment and filled one little spot. Also, if you get stuff filled without anesthetic, find a place that uses air abrasion. It's been completely painless... though I will put up with a drill (to the point of tears - one dentist actually wanted to stop because *he* was stressed out) before getting novocaine shots. TL;DR: Dentists love to try to scam me.
This was a problem with medicare for young children of low income families. A dentist killed a little girl by putting her under to do unnecessary work to milk the insurance.
Yeah. I had one dentist who insisted on giving me 3 extra crowns, I'm sure I didn't need! He messed up my bite really badly, and wanted to keep doing more crowns, at like $800.00 a pop. I quit going to him. His appmt. scheduler told me: "Oh, you'll be sorry when your teeth break off, which they will". The nerve of her threatening me! I haven't had any problems, and it has been 6 years or more. It's awful. Don't they need to take the Hippocratic oath too? I DO know how they sleep at night though. Dreaming about their Bentley and their Vacation homes!
She wasn't threatening you. She was merely telling you what COULD happen if you chose to make the choice you're making. And how do you know you didn't NEED those original 3 crowns? Do you have a dental background? Some of your molars have been in your mouth since your 6th birthday! Since you were 6!! If you'd had fillings on those teeth and then got more decay, you probably NEEDED that crown. Dentists can't put filling material in a tooth that doesn't have enough tooth structure remaining. They're dentists. Not magicians.
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My sister had 12 baby teeth pulled at once. It messed her mouth up. She had to have extensive orthodontic work because of it
Our dentist recently told me my daughter had a bad cavity and it would cost $700 to fill it WITH INSURANCE! I declined, something just didn't feel right. She had not been complaining of pain. I took her to a community health center we had gone to before when she had an emergency dental issue. The asst. did an exam, no cavity. The dentist did an exam and x-rays. No cavity. I can't believe they were willing to put a child through that stress for money. Disgusting.
The same dumb people that proclaim they can't afford it are the ones with tattoos and fancy nails and nice jewelry and clothes and phones and Starbucks...etc. get your priorities straight! Prevention costs a lot less than replacement!
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Dentists I went to here only ask you if you want some extra, when the insurance pays it. Your son is 15. He doesn't really need braces, but they're free until he is 18. Think about it. Or: oh you have this high insurance this year? Your molar only needs to get pulled. You can get some mouth hygienics. It costs so much, so you don't have to pay anything extra. You can spend 500.
The science and technology in dentistry has not evolved. Sonic lasers can break up and flush away kidney stones. Yet dentists still using hard metal drills on teeth.
My dentist made me have like 7 fillings over the years ... years later and a new dentist: 1 in 12 years! F*****g money grabber that first one.
Maybe you just had those cavities before you changed dentists. What was different in your life? Diet? Toothpaste? Soda? Doesn't make the dentist bad. You needed the work. A cavity is an infection of the dental pulp. So maybe now you're doing better in your hygiene.
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I'm a mailman and you need, literally, no education to become a mailman and you start off at $40,000 a year. And once you make regular, every 46 weeks you get roughly a $1,900 wage increase. But I think one of the coolest benefits is that once you're a regular carrier, you can transfer anywhere in the United States and get paid the same amount of money. Now, some states, you do get paid more because of the cost of living. But for example, if you're making $57,000 in Oregon, and you move to Iowa, you'll still be making $57,000. And like I said, you don't need a degree. You don't need an education. You really just need your driver's license.
I used to live in the middle of nowhere, but I got to know my mailman. Once, he noticed that no one was getting the mail, and newspapers were piling up, but the car was there. My husband and I were newly divorced, but when he couldn't get in touch with my ex, he went to the trouble of tracking me down at the college where I worked. All was well. My ex had to go to Disneyland Paris, and the person who was supposed to be looking after the house wasn't. We thanked him profusely, and I let the PO know what a great guy he was.
According to Dr. Anna, her profession has a very bad debt-to-income ratio. What this means is that you spend tons of money and time to get the education that you need to work as a vet. However, once you actually have the job, you realize that it doesn’t pay as well as you might have expected. You don’t have the standard of living you feel that you should and you end up feeling stressed under the massive debt.
Universities which exploit the labor of adjuncts, that is part-time faculty members who have no hope of tenure, are contributing to the same generational poverty that they purport to be ending through the opportunity to become educated. Adjuncts have no benefits and are often on public assistance. This is true even if they have a terminal degree.
Every parent sending their child to a college or university should ask, "What is your ratio of full-time faculty members to adjuncts? And how much does your college pay adjuncts per class?" Stop the abuse.
I work in fashion production and when you go to a store like TJ Maxx or Marshalls or Home Goods, everything in that store is made for that store. It's not leftover old inventory. Everything is made out of cheaper materials at cheaper factories to hit the target prices that store is going to sell the stuff at. And also, all the "compared to" prices are completely made up.
I'm a registered dietitian and I have two things. The first is that it's really freakin' hard to become a dietitian, and we do not get enough credit for it. It takes a Bachelor's degree, a Master's degree, an accredited 1200-hour internship, and then also a national exam. So, it's hard to get here. And I'm very proud of myself for being here. And second is that studies show that 41% to 81% of registered dieticians have previously or currently dealt with disordered eating or eating disorders. And this is why dietitians are so against chronic dieting. Not only have we been in your shoes, but now we have the science and the knowledge to actually understand what chronic dieting can do to not only your physical health but also your mental health. And that's why we take a sustainable long-term approach. You will not find a quick fix from a dietitian. But working with a dietitian and healing your relationship with food and exercise is the most rewarding thing that you can do for both your mental and physical health.
Definitely something to listen to, respect and maybe even put into practice for yourself if need be. It got me thinking…
There’s also the huge amount of stress that vets are under due to the long hours and problems with understaffing.
Another shocker for us was just how disrespectful some clients (and even coworkers!) can be in this industry. We always assumed that folks love vets for healing their four-legged floofs. Unfortunately, there are some truly nasty characters out there who make a vet’s shift horrible.
Dr. Anna said that she has been cursed out, degraded, even threatened by clients. Some of them then come after veterinarians on social media.
I'm a hairstylist and I can tell when you have had a traumatic event based on your hair. You know how like on your nails, you can get those little ridges when you go through a high-stress period of time or something dramatic, your hair does the same thing. So, if you have curly hair, all the curls are coming out at different times. But when you see somebody who's had trauma, it's like one curve throughout the whole head. Every hair has the same exact spot down the hair shaft. And because the hair grows at about a half an inch per month, I can usually gauge the amount of time. So when I'm doing your hair, and I look and I see that little ridge, I can say, "Oh, that was six months ago, something traumatic happened."
As a former beauty school dropout/continuing hair nerd, I think this is a tad over exaggerated. I’m not like a psychic that can comb through your hair and say “oh honey, I see you went through a dark time roughly 18 months ago.” Especially with how frequently people colour/bleach/process their hair these days. And how everyone’s hair grows at different rates. Feel free to correct me if anyone knows better! (I’ve never seen a temporary change in hair follicle shape due to temporary stressful life situations before but I guess that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen!)
I used to work for a shampoo plant that would make shampoo, conditioner, all kinds of other things for a bunch of different companies. It's all the same stuff. They would put it all in one big container, mix it all together, and they would just come out the exact same chute, and they would go into different bottles with different labels on it for different companies, all the exact same stuff. The only way they would change it up is with scent sprays. That would change the scent of what it was.
I've been doing commercial HVAC, heat and air conditioning, for the better part of a decade. And one of the biggest complaints I have with residential companies is preventive maintenance calls or anything like that, spring startups where they have to come out every year and check your refrigerant levels and your air conditioning and they tell you "Oh, well, you're a little low, we better top you off". That's a lie. Unless you have a leak in your system, or a much bigger issue, refrigerant does not evaporate. They're robbing you. If they have to keep coming out to charge your system or top you off, call another company. Somebody that's not a crook. And I don't care if it's your brother, your aunt, your uncle whoever has been doing this for hundreds of years. They're robbing you.
The guys at my dad's garage often had to top off old ac systems in cars. New ones no. My dad watched his guys carefully. He had lifelong customers because he didn't cheat anyone.
I work as a Clinical Health Educator for the county health department where I drug and STD test people all day and then re-educate them. And at the very end of the year, I do send those results to the CDC, so they can collect data. And for some reason, with my Bachelor’s, that pays less than wiping ass.
But the most interesting part is that STD results among people over the age of 50 have increased by 250%. And there's at least six different nursing homes and assisted living facilities in my area that have STD outbreaks. And they're contributing so much that gonorrhea is becoming incurable. And my favorite part is going out to these nursing homes and assisted living facilities and having to test these people, and I'm supposed to re-educate them. But do you really think 95-year-old Gertrude is gonna [care] about what I say after she’s been homie-hopping with every single male on the unit?
And I was just recently at a facility with 60 residents and all 60 tested positive for chlamydia, which is the most common STD for people over the age of 50.
I'm an air traffic controller, and there are about 139 Federal standalone air traffic control towers in the United States. I work at one and every night, about 84 of those, about 60%, shut down and all the controllers go home and there's nobody there to work traffic, and then they come back in the morning and reopen. And during those hours when the control tower is closed, it's the pilot's responsibility to talk to other pilots and make sure that they're not going to hit each other.
I've been working in maintenance as a Maintenance Technician for 14 years. And I'll tell you, if we don't know how to do something, we're going to google it, or we're going to YouTube it. We do it all the time. We do it constantly. So when you're at home and you're not positive, you can do it yourself. Just know that professionals who do this stuff all the time are also doing the same thing you do. There's no reason why you should feel lesser or like you're not competent enough to do it. A lot of times, you encounter things that are new and it's different, and maybe the building's a little bit different, or maybe you're in a different environment and that can be a little bit confusing - it's okay to google it, it's okay to YouTube it. And if you're not positive that you can get the job done safely and good, like make sure it's nice and tidy when you're done, then you got to call a professional and there's no harm in that too.
I'll take this to my grave. I wanted to put up a wall shelf without using screws and nails. So I found cheap adhesive brackets. I had to take them off as they weren't providing the stability I needed, the pulled off chunks of paint and some of the drywall plaster, revealing the brown paper. Afraid I would be charged hundreds for materials, labour and not getting back my damage deposit, I turned to youtube tutorials. All I needed was sealant primer, drywall mud, a drywall scraper, a small paint try and a small paint roller, and I already had a sanding sponge thing. Even managed to find the exact matching paint colour. You can't even tell there was any damage. It looks better than the previous patch jobs from maintenance. And I didn't have to clean up after anybody but myself. It was a proud moment for me.
As a surgery nurse, when someone gets a leg amputation, I have to put it in a bag and carry the severed leg down the hall to a refrigerator to be sent off to pathology. I have to do that regularly.
Don't eat me alive, this is just my stupid curious question. Does the person get to decide what's gonna happen with his body parts? Let's say I had that leg amputated, can i cremate it and can they put it in my grave after I died so it can be all of me in one place? Does it sound weird?
I used to work at a factory that makes Keurig pods and we would just take a whole bunch of coffee all mixed together and put it in different pods. Some of them would say Dunkin' Donuts, some of them would say McDonald's, some of them would be off brands. But only difference between the different pods was flavors - if they were flavored. All the rest of them were all the same coffee.
I work with leather and you might be surprised to find out that those little tags that say "genuine leather" don't mean what you think they mean. So, leather comes in four different quality grades, the worst of which I don't remember the name of - it's basically a bunch of scraps pressed together. But the other three grades are called "full grain leather", "top grain leather", and "genuine leather". Full grain leather is exactly what it sounds like. It is the full height of leather unsplit, uncut, unchanged. Top grain leather is the leather after it's been split once and you get the top part of the leather, so it has one smooth face and one kind of rough face. And genuine leather is kind of the s**t leftovers mixed with some glue and other stuff. So, genuine doesn't mean it's the real deal. It means it's kind of low quality.
Bonded leather is the plywood of leather you are thinking about. Fellow Leatherworker here.
I'm a dentist in San Antonio. Lots of people tell me they've been using a whitening toothpaste for their teeth that aren't getting whiter. That's because whitening toothpastes don't whiten your teeth. All they are is they contain abrasives that help remove stains on the outside of your teeth. They're not doing anything to chemically whiten your teeth more than the natural shade. Another secret is Crest White Strips and all of the at-home whitening kits contain the same chemical that dentists use to whiten your teeth at the office. The ones at the office are just slightly stronger because you're under supervision while we're using them. Any products with hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide is going to whiten your teeth. And if you use it correctly, it should work just as well as the one at the office.
I'd like to add that this is not true for Europe (or rather the EU). Whitening products are banned from using high concentration H2O2 as it can really damage your teeth. Maximum peroxide content is 0.1%, which does nothing to brighten your teeth. Dentists can use up to 6% which can work. TL;DR: if you want whiter teeth in the EU, don't buy consumer products, go see your dentist.
Your cakes are never fresh. They're always frozen because it's hard to frost a not-frozen cake, so we bake them and we freeze them. Every single cake.
So, movies and TV shows screw this up all the time, but when you're doing CPR on somebody and you see the flatline on the monitor, you never shock them. So, this is what's called a systole. And it's what's known as an unshockable rhythm and you never ever shock somebody that has this lack of electrical activity, and it's just been perpetrated by bad TV shows and movies forever. And unfortunately now, a rhythm that actually would be shocked like this would now be seen as unrealistic by the audience. So, TV show makers and movie makers are kind of stuck.
Researchers conducted a study and found that running a fan in the sleeping infant's room reduces the risk of SIDS by 72%.
You can lower the risk factors, not the risk of SIDS. Risk factors include: lack of ventilation; overheating (ideally 25*C, no more); and carbon dioxide build-up from the room being "airtight". Just crack a window or door and relax, please. Also, onlly one study says taht. One isn't much in medicine.
I'm an airline pilot and anyone who's involved in aviation would absolutely know this. But if you're not involved in aviation, you are just the general public, you might not know this. If we are taking off, meaning we're going down the runway, we're taking off and we have an engine fail, meaning it shuts down for whatever reason, if we're past a certain point, it's called V1. We are going to continue the takeoff and we will deal with the engine failure in flight.
Psychiatry - the current practice of psychiatry - is at least 20 years behind the current science. So, psychiatrists are practicing based on the science research that had come out 20 years ago. And current research says to look at the whole person, to look at the holistic being of the person in order to treat mental illness.
But that is not what research 20 years ago was saying. Research that was funded by big pharma. Research that was funded by putting out terms like being chemically imbalanced, which is largely a lie, a marketing scheme. How about that!
Yeah look at the whole human being, but chemical imbalances *do* exist. The brain functions with neurotransmitters and that process can go awry just like any other chemical process in the body... Signed, someone with *very* solid knowledge about biology who has several chemical imbalances in the brain which luckily can be improved with medication.
Any doctor can legally perform any operation on you as long as you sign on the dotted line. That's how you get ER doctors performing tummy tucks, EMTs performing breast augmentation, and family doctors performing liposuction. Even though they may have absolutely no training to perform these operations on you, it is totally legal for them to do so. Hospitals typically won't let doctors perform operations like this outside their training, so they get around this by performing it in their offices. So, make sure your doctor has hospital privileges to perform your operation. If they don't, run!
EMTs do not perform any type of surgery anywhere. Their "office" is an ambulance.
I work at Top Golf, where you have to pay per hour to play. It's generally $50 an hour. But if you're a platinum member, you get to play for free as long as you want. But the catch is you pay, like, thousands of dollars to be a platinum member. And the perk is that you get, like, 20% off food. And these platinum members are like super elite. They just come in, and they just play golf for free, and they have their golf bag with them and their gloves, and all that. But what they don't know is that if they just work one day a week at Top Golf, they not only could play for free, but they could also eat 50% off all of the food.
Son met people there, big names. All were great and super nice. But they fgot rid of him for missing too much work after working 10 hour days for 3 weeks straight with only 2 days off. I picked him up from work when he collapsed and took him straight to the ER. Dr said 5 days rest because his back was in knots, spasming andhe'dpulledamuscle. So they basically fired him when he couldn't work per Dr's orders. Just quit putting him on the schedule after 2.5 years there. Bastards refused unemployment till BFF (lawyer) contacted them and unemployment office. Also refused to give referral, made it hard to find another job. I hate them
Keeping chickens for eggs costs far more money than it ever would be to buy eggs from the store.
Only if you buy the eggs of chickens that are severely mistreated. If you buy free range eggs it will be cheaper to have your own. In europe at least if you want to see the type of egg look at the numbers written on it. The first number indicated the type. 3 is tiny wired cages, 2 is hens raised in the floor but in tiny spaces,(those two mumbers mean that the hens live in terrible conditions), 1 they get more space and can go out and 0 they are always outside. So please buy only 0 and 1 eggs.
I'm a tattoo artist in Saskatchewan, Canada and I don't think most people know this, but you don't need any kind of certification to tattoo. The only thing legally I'm required to have to be able to run my business is have access to a sink in the same room. If I don't want to take my Bloodborne Pathogens Certification, if I don't want to do any extra kind of, like, educational steps for me to legally tattoo, I don't have to. No one is checking up on you. There's no one that's, like, checking in to make sure you're doing procedures correctly. And I just think that's really wild even in the industry. The amount of people that I've worked with that I've never seen them wash their hands and they don't have Bloodborne Pathogens Certification, which is literally the bare minimum, is astounding. So that's why I always say, check your artists and make sure you can vet them. And if you can get someone to say that they've worked with them and they're great and they're good at what they do, then that's even better.
All of the best early childcare teachers that I've worked with, and me, don't believe in the concept of elite childcare centers.
I'm a child development expert and I have no idea what an "elite child care center" is.
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Medicine. Industry secret: We're as sick of profiteering in the US as you are. We're sick, too, in fact. Very few MDs make a fat living. You go into med school for X dollars, and magically owe 6X dollars in debt (this before everyone else's student loans went insane, too), you work insane hours doing *paperwork* b/c some idiot somewhere else f*cked up *once*, but a lawyer got involved, and there are no codes for Medicare/aid ffor about half of what the average MD encounters, so it's "best fit" on the form. All this is to keep costs down for... I have no idea, nobody does, but it definitely means some CEO just bought a new yacht.
Freelance writer and Product Manager here. I spend my days writing Web content I know nothing about and claim to be an expert. Manage 76 small websites. I write a 200 word blog for each one every second month. Even those travel blogs where I claim to be the website owner off on some exotic adventure. I also write testimonials about "great service/products" I have had. Don't believe a single word you read on the Internet. Ever.
Working in Market Research, there is a ton of industry secrets. Many the front line staff can only speculate. One thing I can add is when you get a call there is no pre-selected list of names/numbers we have, unless the client has a specific list of customers the project mgr enters into the system. Staff are sat for hours in front of a computer, logged into a CATI program with a random dialer. We literally have no clue who the next person we get is. Sometimes we want to speak with businesses and get residences, vice versa. The information we're given about the projects is as much information as we tell you. Maybe the client wants anonymity, and we're not told either. Interviewers are not trusted with too much additional information the client wants kept secret. So, whatever we explain is about as much as we've been given. We may only have a vague idea of why the client is researching. We're just a 3rd party.
Calling 911 for a minor injury will not get you in the ER quicker. There's something called triage. They asses what your malady is and give you a bed based on need. They're not going to put you on a bed because of an ingrown toenail when someone walked in having chest pains. I've transported people for minor medical complaints (I ate too much and my stomach hurts, I broke my pinkie toe, etc). If your injury is not life threatening, the nurse will have the EMT roll the gurney into the waiting room and you'll have to sit there until the more serious patients are taken care of. Oh, and you're responsible for finding your own way home.
Yes - they will take your vitals, sometimes even have your blood work drawn and tested, and an x-ray done, but you will be put back in the waiting room if you are not a life threatening case.
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Your medical devices, especially implants, aren't really tested for safety. It's too expensive and time consuming. The FDA has an allowance that if a new device is sufficiently similar to an old device, it'll pass approval without requiring the full testing. Also, that older device it resembles? Might never have been fully tested itself if it was grandfathered in before the testing stuff became required.
Medicine. Industry secret: We're as sick of profiteering in the US as you are. We're sick, too, in fact. Very few MDs make a fat living. You go into med school for X dollars, and magically owe 6X dollars in debt (this before everyone else's student loans went insane, too), you work insane hours doing *paperwork* b/c some idiot somewhere else f*cked up *once*, but a lawyer got involved, and there are no codes for Medicare/aid ffor about half of what the average MD encounters, so it's "best fit" on the form. All this is to keep costs down for... I have no idea, nobody does, but it definitely means some CEO just bought a new yacht.
Freelance writer and Product Manager here. I spend my days writing Web content I know nothing about and claim to be an expert. Manage 76 small websites. I write a 200 word blog for each one every second month. Even those travel blogs where I claim to be the website owner off on some exotic adventure. I also write testimonials about "great service/products" I have had. Don't believe a single word you read on the Internet. Ever.
Working in Market Research, there is a ton of industry secrets. Many the front line staff can only speculate. One thing I can add is when you get a call there is no pre-selected list of names/numbers we have, unless the client has a specific list of customers the project mgr enters into the system. Staff are sat for hours in front of a computer, logged into a CATI program with a random dialer. We literally have no clue who the next person we get is. Sometimes we want to speak with businesses and get residences, vice versa. The information we're given about the projects is as much information as we tell you. Maybe the client wants anonymity, and we're not told either. Interviewers are not trusted with too much additional information the client wants kept secret. So, whatever we explain is about as much as we've been given. We may only have a vague idea of why the client is researching. We're just a 3rd party.
Calling 911 for a minor injury will not get you in the ER quicker. There's something called triage. They asses what your malady is and give you a bed based on need. They're not going to put you on a bed because of an ingrown toenail when someone walked in having chest pains. I've transported people for minor medical complaints (I ate too much and my stomach hurts, I broke my pinkie toe, etc). If your injury is not life threatening, the nurse will have the EMT roll the gurney into the waiting room and you'll have to sit there until the more serious patients are taken care of. Oh, and you're responsible for finding your own way home.
Yes - they will take your vitals, sometimes even have your blood work drawn and tested, and an x-ray done, but you will be put back in the waiting room if you are not a life threatening case.
Load More Replies... Your medical devices, especially implants, aren't really tested for safety. It's too expensive and time consuming. The FDA has an allowance that if a new device is sufficiently similar to an old device, it'll pass approval without requiring the full testing. Also, that older device it resembles? Might never have been fully tested itself if it was grandfathered in before the testing stuff became required.
