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@doctorspork
Dropping by after literal months of not being on this website to announce that job searching is terrible, I am extremely qualified for the job I am trying to do, seriously please just give me a job so I can actually study for my 2nd of 3 sets of boards and continue doing my current job
Hi, kids,
Remember it's okay to not want to do your hobby as a job. It's okay to not want to sell the things that you make. It's okay if you want to make art without taking commissions.
It's fine to completely lose enjoyment in something if you're doing it for money. It's fine to say, "I don't like doing this when I have to do it," and to just never do it.
You don't need to make your hobbies pay for themselves. You don't need to turn professional or semi-professional. You can love the freedom of starting something when you want, working on it when you want, and finishing it (or not finishing it) when you want. If you find that taking that away makes you not love the thing, that's just a lesson that you've learned. It's not a failing. It doesn't mean you're not dedicated to your art or your craft. It doesn't mean you're not doing it right.
Not everything needs to be a business. Not everything needs to have financial worth.
While we're at it, you don't need to be good at a hobby to want to do it. You don't need to have a goal of improving. If you get a guitar and you love playing it, but never get beyond cowboy chords and 4-chord songs, you're still valid. You don't have to be the best in the world to have it have worth. Your grandma's chicken enchilada recipe isn't going to rank in the top 100 enchiladas ever, but you still love them and enjoy them and they taste great. Maybe your doll faceup isn't going to look like a youtube tutorial's did, but if you liked making it, that doesn't matter.
But it's also totally fine to do things just for the response you get from other people. If you're only updating that fic because you have nine dedicated readers who want to know how it ends, that doesn't mean you're not dedicated to the story.
"This is just something I like doing," is enough. It doesn't need to be a job, or something you're good at, or a labor of love, or an otherworldly calling from a holy being. You can just make things. You can just do things. It's okay.
Today’s sentiment brought to you by our residency psychiatrist.
i wonder how much healing that one xkcd comic did to the internet with saying “you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000″ when encountering a person who hasn’t been exposed to a popular or well known thing
you’re so right
[Image description: a reply by dimespin that says, “Genuinely one of the most powerfully positive messages ever added to the Internet ecosystem it’s up there with ‘holy shit, two cakes’”
The next image is the XKCD mentioned in the original post, the left side says, “I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don’t know things.
Because for each thing ‘everyone knows’ by the time they’re adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time.
Fraction who have heard it at birth = 0%
Fraction who have heard it by 30 = 100%
US birth rate = 4,000,000/year.
Number hearing about it for the first time = 10,000/day.”
On the right side it says, “If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out on the fun.”
And then it shows twobstick figures having a conversation, one has hair and the other is bald.
The hair figure says, “'Diet coke and mentos thing’? What’s that?”
The bald figure replies, “Oh man! Come on, we’re going to the grocery store.”
The hair figure asks, “Why?”
And the bald figure says, “You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.” And has one leg raised as if to walk away.
/end image description]
medusa sketch by james jean (2022)
this website is full of people chasing the high of being right in 10th grade english
You're the dumpster fire extinguisher. Good luck.
my boss, when I said work was a dumpster fire today
These books were literally a pivot point in my childhood and I am unbelievably excited to get my hands on these new beautiful covers.
OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE
This is what we mean by systemic racism
hey boss, just "accidentally" stabbed my "hand". got any cursed blood facts?
great news anon, as a human your blood is already among the most cursed on the planet!
see, most people don’t realize this, but mammal blood is actually completely unique among vertebrates. if you put a drop of mammal blood on a microscope slide next to a drop of lizard blood, you would be able to tell them apart instantly!
how? simple- mammalian blood cells don’t have a nucleus!
the nucleus is a dark mass at the center of a cell that tells it what to do and lets it reproduce by splitting itself in two- and every other major vertebrate group on the planet has nucleated blood cells.
BUT NOT MAMMALS. (these cells are NAKED somebody please GET THEM SOME PANTS.)
at some point in their 200+ million years of evolutionary history, mammals discovered that if you force your red blood cells to drop their nucleus and turn into pink cheerios, they can focus on carrying oxygen and ONLY carrying oxygen! this means that mammal blood is much more efficient than fish or reptile or even bird blood at carrying oxygen liter-for-liter, though at the cost of lugging around some extra internal organs and having to make new blood inside of your bones. what a steal!
maybe that’s why all the stock photo blood researchers are making that face.
I'm sorry but those nucleated red blood cells are the ones that look cursed
#also help correct me please but aren't those supposed zo be leukocytes?#there's no way those are thrombocytes
Nope, reptile blood is just that cursed that even the thrombocytes are nucleated lmao. They don't have the same megakaryocyte fragmentation system that (at least) humans have.
Which, if you ask me, makes lizard blood Demonically Cursdt.
Thanks for the correction and also
What the hell
Man it cracks me up every time medblr learns about animals
I have ADHD. I know my limits. One species was all I could manage.
Vetblr: different species are different
Medblr:
(I love you guys really it's just a constant source of entertainment)
Animal physiology: *exists*
Medblr, collectively: Hmmm don't like that
Hello fellow sloppy bisexuals how is not putting away the laundry going
““They never tell you some things,” Briar said bitterly. “They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don’t ever want to learn.” “All you can do is learn good to balance the bad,” Rosethorn told him. “Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.””
— Tamora Pierce, “Street Magic”
you are waiting
and i see you
and i recognize that you are suffering–
whether it is worry,
hopelessness,
or pain,
i see you
and i am sorry
because right now you are suffering,
but my first priority must be to save
and if you are not dying right now
i am needed elsewhere.
perhaps the biggest misconception of medicine
i had when i began
was that my career in aiming to heal others
would mean that i would always be driven to lessen suffering
(even in some small way)–
now i realize
that because this system cares not
for what truly constitutes
suffering
my hands will always be tied
to those who are most immediately threatened
and not those whose suffering is the greatest.
i see you
and i am sorry
that i am only one person
(because, yes, underneath this yellow gown
and this mask
and this title of ‘doctor’
i am only a person–
a small,
frightfully human
person.)
i see you
and i hear you–
you call us callous and heartless and, sometimes, evil
and you say we cannot do our jobs;
and sometimes,
because i am only a person,
i believe you.
(thoughts from the front lines, 2023)
Voting as Fire Extinguishter (poem by Kyle Tran Myhre)
When the haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.
It’s tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember:
there are children inside.
What do family docs do when we don’t know what to do?
Resident Amsterdam, checking out a patient: so I have this lady who recently had some really wonky eye symptoms like intermittent vision loss and ophtho told me to get an MRI and turns out she has a mass pressing on her optic nerve. Neurosurgery says they can’t operate on it here so they’re coordinating with Tertiary Center to manage it.
Wayfaring: wow, so what are you doing for her today?
Amsterdam: I’m just checking her lipids.
Wayfaring: solid. Go family medicine.
Amsterdam: hey, I found the tumor. I’m letting the guys with a higher pay grade manage it.
Gotta risk stratify when the inevitable request for preop "clearance" comes!
