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30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals In This Online Community
Each era has its own folklore and its own myths. In the old days, these were mighty heroes and terrible monsters, then noble knights and beautiful princesses, cowboys shooting without a single miss, and bulletproof superheroes. The contemporary world also has its own myths, and moreover, we face them literally every day.
Ask any software engineer you know how many times in their lives they have been asked to fix a desktop - simply because they are "programmers". Or how many times an accountant - even if they have never dealt with a tax report in their entire professional career - receives requests from acquaintances to sort out their taxes?
Myths, myths and more myths surround literally every profession, and we create these myths ourselves. Just from watching a couple of James Bond films, we are sure that spies spend their lives doing nothing but driving around in luxury cars wearing insanely expensive suits. Just from watching a couple of children's films, we will strongly believe that the workers at the animal shelter have the most wonderful job in the world, as they pet doggos and kitties all day long.
The list is literally endless, and a popular thread starter in the AskReddit community recently helped us by asking people the question: "What's your profession's myth that you regularly need to explain 'It doesn't work like that' to people?" In just a few days, the thread has racked up 2.5K upvotes and over 3.8K comments, bringing together an incredible collection of today's mythology.
To make it easier for you to figure out all this abundance, Bored Panda has made a list of the most popular comments of the original thread. So now feel free to read stories on debunking modern myths, scroll to the very end, and if you have your own professional experience that can also dispel some myth literally in the wind, please be sure to tell us about it in the comments.
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Your terminally ill grandmother isn't "becoming addicted" to her pain medication. She's dying in as much comfort and with as much dignity as we can provide.
Yep. MIL was on morphine pretty much on demand at the end of her life. Having an addiction was the least of our worries.
I worked at a home for sick old people and at the end of their lives they were in palliative care (close to dying often almost in an almost comatose state). The nurses used to give them 'too much' morphine to make their suffering shorter. They died with no pain. Totally okay for all of us and probably them aswell
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Fr if I'm a hop, skip, and a jump away from death best believe I'm going to be higher than giraffe tits 24/7
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Pain Warriors is an excellent documentary. Yes, there is an opioid crisis in America, but not everyone taking them is abusing them. There are many people who can't get through the most basic tasks without them.
Many who aren't terminal but are in chronic pain face this slur constantly from others. They face difficulties being prescribed appropriate pain relief from medics also because of this prejudice. They don't attempt to rid you of your pain completely now, just to make it so you can tolerate it. Having pain 24/7 for over 30 years is NOT tolerable, I am NOT an addict..
Have a couple of friends the same. They're not addicts there's just trying to live some semblance of a life through the chronic pain
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My daughter is an RN. I told her to light me up with that s**t if it looks like I'm trying to find the exit.
My father doctors gave my father two weeks to live. I flew to Italy to be with him in his last days, but the pain he was in made conversation all but impossible. I should preface by saying that my "new age" mother transferred him to a crunchy, new age clinic that probably cost a fortune. I asked the doctors why my father was in so much pain and how much morphine they were giving him, for it clearly wasn't enough. Their answer was "none, we don't want your father to become a junkie". I was flabbergasted, angry, murderous! I said "You gave him 2 weeks to live a week ago, how is he going to get addicted to anything?". They threatened to have security remove me from the premises. I should have: 1) Gone to Campo de' Fiori and buy some heroin for my dad 2) Shoot him up as necessary to relieve his pain 3) Beat both doctors within an inch of their lives after his passing. Not kill them, because I wanted them to suffer like my father did. Butchers! Bigoted, ignorant buffoons. I still have PTSD
This is why I love the hospice option. Hospice will give pain meds and comfort and dignity. Hospitals and doctors only try to prolong life. Thanks to hospice my kids and I got to see the father I knew instead of the pain filled man he was before. He got to enjoy the time he had left.
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People denying a dying person morphine because of the addiction issue is, well IGNORANT!
When my wife died the nurses were giving her injections of oxycodone and midazolam that would probably have killed me, but it t meant that she died peacefully and without pain or fear. Addiction didn't even cross my mind. And if it had? So what? She was dying of incurable cancer.
Pain isn't the only thing. I watched my friend rapidly go downhill, even though he was on meds, I could tell he was still suffering. Dying sucks, there is no dignity in it. Why do we have this notion that some people must be kept alive at all costs?
Back when cancer was a guaranteed death sentence, the hospital sent my great-grandmother home with morphine and just told her to, "Keep him comfortable". No limits, no suggestions. Just literally the best they could do back then.
And even if she was, it is hardly going to lead to anything, right?
When I worked in an addiction centre we got a referral for an 85-year-old woman who had terminal cancer and was "addicted" to prescription opioids. F*****g pointless. I don't know if we ever even made her an appointment.
That's heartbreaking to hear and makes me angry in wish measure. Just wish folks would butt out of the lives of others.
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If you are in pain you don't get addicted to high strength opioids it only happens if the pain lessons and you are still at high dosage levels
Yep. My grandmother died of cancer A few years ago and only wanted to die in as little pain as possible. I worried that the painkillers might worsen her condition, but her health was failing anyway and she was ready to go home to the Lord otherwise. My family and I could not have asked for more in terms of how well the hospice workers my uncle contracted to care for her in her last days on Earth cared for her. They did a fine job and their hearts for her and making her last days as peaceful and dignified as possible were evident throughout the whole process. I wish I could thank them once more for what they did for her and for our family.
Who...who would worry about drug addiction when the person has literally less than 6 months of their life left?
Hospice workers are the goat. Made my moms last months less of a chaotic frightening time for all of us.
"Funny" how it's the other way around when you live with chronic pain and need the pain killers to live a worthy life. I have to beg for mercy so that I can 2-3 hours of sleep. I don't deserve more than that because of the risk of me being addicted to the drugs. I just want to have a somewhat pain free life, but the only way to get it is to be dying.
Also, if you have chronic, legitimate pain, you don't become 'addicted' to pain medication. You become dependent on it. Addiction= willing to steal, hurt people, and other insidious behaviour to get drugs at any cost to achieve an euphoric high or other pleasurable experience. Dependence= increasing dose on your own when your pain is no longer controlled by the original dosage; if this ever becomes the case, it's important to talk to your doctor or pharmacist before it gets out of hand. (I used to be a pharmacist)
What's it going to do? Kill them? In the last stages of life, my mom would swig her cough syrup. Oldest sister was super upset over it. This became our mantra.
My grandfather and uncle (his son) didn’t want to give grandma any of the morphine that her at-home-hospice nurse provided, for fear that it would only make her sleep all day. She had Alzheimer’s for years and was no longer able to communicate anything. She moaned often in her last year. They couldn’t tell if it was a reflex or if she was in pain. Still, they only gave her over-the-counter pain meds instead of the readily offered morphine. Grandpa loved her so much that he couldn’t willfully “harm” her with strong drugs. I hope she wasn’t in pain. I fear the opposite is actually true.
I've read studies that people given enough pain medication (usually in Europe) live longer - and have a higher quality of life for longer - than those (in the US) who are restricted , usually due to fears of addiction. THE PERSON IS TERMINAL! Why do we care if they're addicted? They're dying! Let them at least die pain-free (or enact self-euthanasia so they can die sooner).
Duh... They are dying, as in no one gives a c**p how addicted he or she becomes. It's not like they're going to need a fix so they have to get out of 🛏️ & go rob the old coot (also dying) down the hall. Let their last weeks be in as much comfort as possible. Use some sense & stop living out your feelings.
My grandmother is currently end of life in hospice and is on morphine. It's comfort care. It's been so hard and heartbreaking but as long as she's comfortable and in no pain, that is my biggest concern.
What do they mean "addicted"...the person is dying, even if they got "addicted", and I'm sorry if this sounds rude or harsh, they're dying, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that they're in pain! And nobody wants that.
Yes! Thanks and thumbs up to all the great professionals and volunteers in hospices. These people really saw my very ill mother for who she was and what she needed, took all the time for her and us as her family, and did their best to make her last phase of life as comfortable as possible. It didn't make her passing itself less sad, but this was the best place from which she could go peacefully.
Some hospitals won't give end of life opiates. They're too worried about being sued. My mother died in excruciating pain because of their policy. We begged for them give her relief, but we were ignored.
That is extremely poor healthcare and poor judgment, and you should consider suing them for malpractice.
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Also there is some evidence on Psilocybin and psilocin (magic mushrooms) having antidepressant properties and end stage cancer anti anxiety properties. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/benefits-of-medical-mushrooms#Will-psilocybin-ever-be-approved-by-the-FDA?
As a hospice nurse I let families know that if their loved one improves that we have gentle ways to treat this. My biggest concern is with the patient themselves not taking comfort meds while still able to enjoy life,due to fear of addiction. My response is the same. We can treat that gently without awful withdrawals.
We have always taken our little old dogs to the vet to be put down. It's awful and we cry alot but we feel that it is the only way to accompany them into the next phase of their life journey. Our son and daughter in law were devastated to learn that their much loved, and first dig after getting married was not eating or drinking due to kidney problems. They could not bear to go in with her, as she had lost 30lbs and went from 90 to 60lbs of bones. They cried for days and just couldn't even talk about it to each other. So, we all deal with losses differently.. no one way to deal with it.
Yep and the doctors still cut her off because of opiod addiction in country. For shame! So her final years have just been full of pain.
there is definitely an overuse on morphine though. when my poppop was on hospice we made the nurses cut back on the morphine because he seemed very uncomfortable bc it made him incapable of enjoying his last weeks and was much more himself when we only gave him the bare minimum to take away the pain. once we cut back the morphine he was able to have one last good day where he was up and talking and joking and happy and then a few days later he stopped eating and drinking and passed in his sleep, which is exactly how he wanted to go
Two members died in hospice and I wish the second one would have been drugged enough before they gave up to not give a s**t. This is a rough road for the patient and the family.
Pet euthanasia. There is a wildly popular post that goes around about how pets dropped off for euthanasia “look around for their owners” and know they’ve been “abandoned”. It’s nonsense, and I will defend clients dropping off until I myself die.
I’ve seen what happens when owners can’t say goodbye so they don’t. The animal suffers for days to weeks until their bodies finally give out. I have literally seen a dog rotting from the inside out, SOMEHOW still alive, but the owner couldn’t commit to euthanasia so she didn’t and that dog suffered tremendously for it.
Everyone has boundaries to what they can handle. Requiring an otherwise loving, doting, and responsible owner to be present when it was all they could do to make the appointment doesn’t help pets the way you think it does.
Furthermore, in the nine years I’ve worked in this industry, I have *never* experienced what is described in that post. Ever. And my colleagues overwhelmingly agree. We love on them and hug them, and tell them they’re a good boy until they pass. **By the logic in that post, you should also never drop off for sedated or anesthetic procedures either because the process begins the same way (with sedation). How is that pet to know that death is imminent? They don’t.**
You’re projecting your emotions onto people who are already suffering, and you’re not helping pets by shaming owners, and my local, professional cohort overwhelmingly agrees.
Every time I take one of my dogs to the vets they hate it, the Vet always asks me or my partner to stay whilst they do whatever it is they are doing in order to calm the dog down and help her/him relax. There is no way on Gods sweet Earth would I leave my dogs alone whilst being euthanised, no matter how much it would kill me inside I will be there at the end giving them my love and comfort ..
Weight loss surgery is NOT the easy way out. There is nothing easy about getting your stomach resized to hold a cup or less of food, it f***s up your metabolism, eating the wrong things can cause serious pain, and guess what you're on for the rest of your life? A restrictive diet. Because your stomach's tiny but you still need all the nutrients.
Weight loss medications are not the easy way out either. They don't work unless the patient does, and even then, sometimes it takes months to find the right combo of meds. And there's still nutrition and exercise requirements.
Basically, being obese is really hard, and getting to a point where one is no longer obese is also really hard, so when you see someone obese, assume that they're doing their best and could use some kindness.
Yeah, there is no ‘easy way out’ of being obese and for some of us it’s not possible at all (disabled, messed up metabolism due to ED and medications…). So don’t look at us and think ‘lazy’
No Ma'am, we aren't going to 'shock' (defibrillate) your family member because their heart isn't actually beating.
Defibrillators do not restart a heart, they reset a malfunctioning cardiac rhythm. If the heart isn't at least doing something then our options are CPR and meds until we get some kind of rhythm.
Sincerely,
Tired Medic
Yup, the hearty-starty machine is actually a hearty-stoppy machine. A heart needs to have a shockable rhythm, that is it needs to be fibrillating (like quivering) in order to be de-fibrillated. To de-fibrillate means to stop its rhythm which usually, and certainly hopefully, prompts the heart to restart itself in a sinus rhythm.
Antibiotics don't work on viral diseases.
What? You mean you need to let a virus run its course and treat the symptoms or take an anti-viral!?
Child welfare investigator here
My job isn’t “hard” for the reasons most people think: constantly being exposed to and interviewing abused children
It’s hard because 90% of the time, it’s just disgruntled exes calling on each other over nothing..and dealing with grown adults’ drama is exhausting af.
Yep!! My friend's ex husband called CPS on her and put her life into a tailspin. She did absolutely nothing wrong. The incident in question? Their daughter was angry her phone was taken away as punishment so she told her dad her mom threw the phone at her face. My daughter was there when it happened and said that it was an absolute lie. She felt really bad for not backing up her friend, but I told her the truth was more important. It cost my friend thousands of dollars to fight him in court.
Just because I’m a psychologist doesn’t mean I’m immune to psychological disorders or distress.
I'm a retired used bookstore owner. People were always saying "Oh, I would love to own a bookstore. You can read all day.". Um, no. It's actually a lot of hard, physical work, (boxes of books are heavy), lots of bending and reaching. And then you get to clean the store and do the paperwork. Owning any retail store is not an easy job!
Sorry, but anyone who thought owning a book store would mean „reading all day“ is an idiot
Retail. If an employee tells you they're sold out of that hot sale item. They're sold out. They're not hoarding them in the backroom, because f**k you. They know they're sold out, because you're the 10th person to ask about it, in the last 20 minutes.
Former pastry chef, and still work in a hotel. No I do not make amazing food at home. I barely survive on a diet of cereal, sandwiches and chocolate bars. Pot noodles if I’m feeling fancy.
Also most people in the industry are either junkies or alcoholics to cope with the brutal schedule. My extended family still can’t fathom me working the amount out of hours a week I work.
Also we do not enjoy weddings, they are fun to attend, but nothing but a headache to run.
The restaurant industry sounds a lot like the film industry, lol. People are in utter disbelief when I tell them that I work 18 hour days a lot, and that a 10 hour day is a "short" day in my industry.
When I was building decks I remember a lot of people asked for shorter railings because it'd look nicer. I totally agree, but if 42" is the minimum in this state we're gonna do 42"
Although I'm a skilled teacher the students need to do the learning. I can't do it for them.
I'm a language teacher, teaching English to kids and teenagers. As a native speaker it's astounding how much English grammar that I wasn't actually taught in school and I now have to learn myself as it was considered common knowledge in my native UK.
No doctor does all aspects of medicine and surgery.. it’s specialized and sub specialized. Obviously in more rural areas people do more, but for the most part, complex things get sent to very specialized folks and a doctor like House would never exist (and anyone who acted like him would be fired in about a week)
Being a car machenic that specializes in a couple of cars. We dont know everything about how to fix the car out of our heads. we use youtube a lot to figure out stuf we dont know.
"I have this great idea for a book. You write it, and we'll split the profits."
Nope.
I've published several bestselling novels. I'm neither rich nor famous.
That vet techs get to play with puppies and kittens all day. It’s a physically and mentally exhausting job.
Wearing glasses doesn't make your eyes worse. There are so many misconceptions and so much false reasoning that goes into that one belief that I don't even know where to start. But I'll try anyway I guess.
1) "I noticed my eyes got blurry only after wearing glasses!" That is because your eyes have adjusted to seeing things with more clarity. So of course you're now going to notice when you're missing that clarity whether it be because you took off your glasses or your prescription has changed.
2) "Wearing glasses cause eye strain!" No it doesn't. Your usual eye strain is from working long hours or staring at screens. But you're only noticing it now because the adjustment period when getting glasses for the first time or when getting a new prescription does increase eye strain until you adjust.
3) "I used to never need glasses but now I need new ones every two years! My eyes are getting worse because of glasses!" Refer back to 1. But also you didn't need glasses previously because your eyesight wasn't s**tty enough for you to notice yet or be really othered by it yet. That doesn't mean you didn't actually need them. Your eyesight was probably changing every year even while you didn't notice. Now that you are used to seeing with clarity, you'll notice when things aren't clear and crisp anymore.
I have dealt with many adults who insist they don't need glasses, either distance or reading or both, because they just don't want to concede that their vision isn't great anymore. These are adults with nearsightedness, astigmatism, and sometimes who even need reading correction. And they can't see s**t. Like why are you so stubborn.
I work in childcare and no, I don’t just get to play all day and have fun. I have to deal with behavioral issues, developmental delays, diapers, injuries, curriculum, art projects, huge messes during mealtime, working with one other person to put 12+ toddlers down for nap, etc. Of course it’s fun at times but dealing with all of that is so stressful.
The "defense attorney" aspect of law
It's not your job to lie, deceive, and cheat to get your client acquitted. You give them the best legal defense so that they receive the due process that everyone has a right to.
*"The job of the defense is to make sure the prosecution does theirs."*
If your client is guilty, then the prosecution should be able to prove it fair and square. If they can't then the quality of evidence does not meet the minimum standard and your client should go free. Full stop.
Does that mean the occasional guilty person gets away with it? Yeah. But far worse is a system where innocent people are more likely to go to jail because a s**tty prosecutor's weak arguments were accepted.
A good defense attorney would recognize a losing case and just try to get the best deal for their client, and getting the weaker charges dropped (in case the prosecutor just decides to "throw the book" at them)
Computer animation doesn’t mean the computer does the animation…I do.
There are no skeleton keys. There is no "one key that fits all locks". There are master keys that have been painstakingly installed into a buildings locks, some of which might fit all the locks depending on that particular keys chosen mastering levels, but no. There is no skeleton key. I, a locksmith, use special tools to open locks. I have a big bag of them. Tools like picks, jiggle keys, bump keys 2in1 Lishi keys, and many more. Yes, I got into your house fast. That's because I know how your lock works and know how to defeat it. No I did not turn up with a working key (disclaimer: sometimes I do as I have codes recorded for places I've worked on and I can get codes from car dealers so I can make a key before I turn up.)
The phrase "skeleton key" comes from the time when locks were all very basic and had "wards" that would physically stop the wrong key from turning. A "skeleton key" was therefore the "bare bones" necessary to slide the lock pin, while missing all variations of wards *for that particular size lock" so even then it was never meant to fit *all* locks.
Something being 'off the record'.
If you're speaking to a journalist, you can't just say 'off the record' and then spill your guts. You need to have agreed with the journalist beforehand that you will not be quoted.
University prof. I do not get summers off.
Teaching in front of classes is only about 30% of my job. The rest is one-on-one supervision of graduate students. Doing research, writing grant applications, writing research papers. Summer is the time of year when I finally have the time to do all that other stuff.
Worked in wildland fire and got "what do you guys do in winter, theres no fires. Must be nice sitting around all day". In the fire season I had a seasonal staff of 70+ and in the off season there were three of us. Lots of wrapping up the last season and getting ready for the next (reports, equipment restocking, invoice processing, hiring, giving/taking training, contract prep, etc). Although some would take a week or two off in summer, especially if they had kids and were able to, we also took our annual leave during the winter. I rarely had a "summer".
Tax professional.
Most clients think that the best tax Pros necessarily get them bigger refunds. If you get a smaller refund in a particular year it may be because tax laws change, because you didn't pay in as much, or because you didn't have as many deductions. Explaining stuff to people doesn't work if their eyes are all glazed over because tax law discussions bore them
Going to another tax Pro to get a bigger refund, thinking that that tax Pro is "better" may just get you an audit
But the worst myth about taxes manifest itself when scammers call people on the phone climbing to be IRS agents. They tell folks that they owe money and that authorities are coming to their house to put them in jail if they don't pay up. The truth is that the real IRS does not call anyone on the phone unless they have contacted IRS first and are expecting them to return the call. IRS does not accuse you of text fraud. Even if they truly believe you have committed tax fraud they will simply send you a letter stating that they think you have underpaid your taxes. They will give you a chance to prove your case. If you don't do this or pay them what they say you owe, they will simply Levy your paycheck or your personal property. They do not show up at your house to put you in jail. So please if a scammer calls you do not give them your credit card information or give them payments in any form. Call the real IRS and report them.
That converting to salt water pools does not ‘get rid of the chlorine’. Salt is sodium chloride, salt gets converted to chlorine in a salt water pool, and you use the exact same test kits to monitor the chlorine levels in the pool water.
But at a MUCH lower rate, and yes the water is salted, small electrode blades convert a small amount of salt into chlorine.
Just because your old technical device (laptop, tablet, phone) is in good condition, doesn't actually mean that it's any "good" today.
Especially if it's made by Apple, and can no longer install software updates.
I work in a hardware store and apparently people think we have a huge underground storage big enough to hide every product in existence. No, i can't just go and fetch a part for your 20 year old fireplace or power tool from the backroom.
I work in a bakery.
Baking stuff for 5000 people every day will take all night to do so when we run out of something during the day. We can't just slap something together in five minutes.
Come back tomorrow and we can get it for you.
If something isn't stocked on the shelf and I tell you it isn't in the back then it isn't in the back and I can't magically make it appear out of thin air... that being said if you are a d**k I also might just tell you it ain't in the back
Shoe stores are the exception - very few can have all sizes and all styles out front. Asking them to check / get your size from the back is valid.
Factory worker here.. Once a machine is set up, it can run all day, perfectly, without adjustment. Nope. Steel can vary in hardness, even within a continuous coil of wire. Humidity, ambient temperature, tooling wear can also spoil parts.
Machinist here. Everyone thinks I just push the green button and magic happens. Sorry, I have to do hours of programming, cutter specific geometry, and lits of a*****e puckering to make your part.
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As a pharmacy technician, we do not set the prices of your medications, it’s your insurance company. They don’t tell us why your medication costs more than it did last month, nor do we know what your deductible is. You can use coupons like GoodRx which MIGHT make your medications cheaper, but it can’t be used with your insurance. Any questions about why your medications are so expensive can only be answered by your insurance company. Please call them and not yell at us. We just fill your medications
Animal rescue "oh it must be so great working with animals all day I love seeing the baby puppy pictures" no actually most of my job is either cleaning poop or heartbreaking. Most animals in rescue are sick and in terrible condition when they come in. They have trust issues they will bite. Dealing with half a litter dying or even the whole litter because their mom was practically dead when she came in because even though she'd been "hanging around a few weeks" you couldn't be bothered to call till now. Dealing with the people is just as bad. Older folks that just had to many to take care of but genuinely loved their dogs as much as you do,a*shats that breed pitt bulls even though shelters are over with them already because spaying they dog is "just wrong",the couple that are having a baby so no longer need a dog , ect. The animals that have purposely been beaten,shot,burned,cut ect. makes you loose all hope in humans.
But is is also the small things that keeps you trying. A 6oz preemie baby finally leveling out and eating normal, the fur growing back on mange puppies giving them a mohawk look for a couple of weeks,a dog finally wagging their tail at you instead of being scared of people, a tri-paw finally recovered enough after being hit by a car to play with others, finding the perfect forever home and getting updates with happy pictures. Also only working in rescue teaches you that you can actually be happy and animal is pooping everyday. 😂😂
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As an Artist, it doesn't mean since I'm doing what I love that it's not work. Everyday I am thinking of ideas, sketching, preparing, then gets into painting which can take days or months. I have to get things scanned in, take photographs and manage bookkeeping. What are my expenses, how much is the cost of supplies and running a website. Then I have to have social media accounts so people know this is what I'm doing all day. Not to mention reaching out to potential clients and doing art submissions. So no I am not going to make you a painting for free, or submit my art to a show/gallery where I am not paid for my time. No I am not going to join your art group with a membership fee or apply for a grant that won't guarantee me a steady income. Work is work no matter if you are in a field you enjoy. And if I'm not making money through my artwork then it would just be a hobby. Which it's not, so yeah just pay artists people.
As someone who works in an obscure branch of IT, no I have no idea about your consumer device and I don't give two hoots, in fact I loath consumer tech stuff so much I minimize my exposure to it, so I have a simple smartphone with the bare minimum of apps, a TV with an on/off/select channel buttons, and none of this household automation nonsense. The last thing I want to be doing in my spare time is troubleshooting tech stuff because it feels like work.
As a pharmacy technician, we do not set the prices of your medications, it’s your insurance company. They don’t tell us why your medication costs more than it did last month, nor do we know what your deductible is. You can use coupons like GoodRx which MIGHT make your medications cheaper, but it can’t be used with your insurance. Any questions about why your medications are so expensive can only be answered by your insurance company. Please call them and not yell at us. We just fill your medications
Animal rescue "oh it must be so great working with animals all day I love seeing the baby puppy pictures" no actually most of my job is either cleaning poop or heartbreaking. Most animals in rescue are sick and in terrible condition when they come in. They have trust issues they will bite. Dealing with half a litter dying or even the whole litter because their mom was practically dead when she came in because even though she'd been "hanging around a few weeks" you couldn't be bothered to call till now. Dealing with the people is just as bad. Older folks that just had to many to take care of but genuinely loved their dogs as much as you do,a*shats that breed pitt bulls even though shelters are over with them already because spaying they dog is "just wrong",the couple that are having a baby so no longer need a dog , ect. The animals that have purposely been beaten,shot,burned,cut ect. makes you loose all hope in humans.
But is is also the small things that keeps you trying. A 6oz preemie baby finally leveling out and eating normal, the fur growing back on mange puppies giving them a mohawk look for a couple of weeks,a dog finally wagging their tail at you instead of being scared of people, a tri-paw finally recovered enough after being hit by a car to play with others, finding the perfect forever home and getting updates with happy pictures. Also only working in rescue teaches you that you can actually be happy and animal is pooping everyday. 😂😂
Load More Replies... As an Artist, it doesn't mean since I'm doing what I love that it's not work. Everyday I am thinking of ideas, sketching, preparing, then gets into painting which can take days or months. I have to get things scanned in, take photographs and manage bookkeeping. What are my expenses, how much is the cost of supplies and running a website. Then I have to have social media accounts so people know this is what I'm doing all day. Not to mention reaching out to potential clients and doing art submissions. So no I am not going to make you a painting for free, or submit my art to a show/gallery where I am not paid for my time. No I am not going to join your art group with a membership fee or apply for a grant that won't guarantee me a steady income. Work is work no matter if you are in a field you enjoy. And if I'm not making money through my artwork then it would just be a hobby. Which it's not, so yeah just pay artists people.
As someone who works in an obscure branch of IT, no I have no idea about your consumer device and I don't give two hoots, in fact I loath consumer tech stuff so much I minimize my exposure to it, so I have a simple smartphone with the bare minimum of apps, a TV with an on/off/select channel buttons, and none of this household automation nonsense. The last thing I want to be doing in my spare time is troubleshooting tech stuff because it feels like work.
