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Desert Turtle:
I like to say I know how to code in PHP, but I really don't.
:-\
Eriksoln:
When I was younger, I was in school for Teaching. I figured I wanted to be a math/science teacher at a High School. Got talked into ditching school for a landscaping job (by the company I worked for during summers). They gave me a Supervisor position and an hourly wage which, at the time, was too large to turn down.
Years later, that company folded while the owner moved away (post divorce). He tried to manage it from long distance, but it simply wasn't the same and took too much effort from him. So, he sold the company and I found myself going from one landscaping company to another trying to regain my former Supervisor status. It never happened though, landscaping companies tend to be tribal. Being boss at company A doesn't mean you get special standing when you apply to company B.
I realized the classes I had taken before were only a couple required classes away from getting me into nursing. I went back to school full time, worked on weekends and lived on counting pennies for a few years until I got my RN license. Now, today, I'm still an RN, and I'm back in school to get a higher degree.
Medieval Nudist of the Dead:
Going from landscaping to being an RN seems like a pretty big jump.
Dr. Jekyll:
I once had a career in Lawn-Mowing, I mowed an old mans lawn and got paid 5 dollars and a stick of bubble gum for each mowing. I did this for the duration of summer but eventually had to quit, due to the financial crisis at the time and the strain of paying off my mortgage with a family to feed.
I can say happily now that I found a new job at Subway, and that things are looking better again.
Eriksoln:
It is for the most part. Any similarities are pure coincidence. The differences are actually what kept me motivated in school. Biggest one, the one I am enjoying right now, is that I'm inside while it is cold and snowing outside. If I were still landscaping, I'd be pounding the streets doing snow removal. I hated snow removal.
Some things I learned landscaping helped though. For one, I was a supervisor instead of a simple laborer for a long time because I was one of the few who had the temperament to deal with irate customers/people. I lost count of how many times I had to tackle/restrain workers from going after someone who came out of their house and got in the face of one of us for the noise our machines made or something. Or, a customer who was unhappy about the cost of their services (why they didn't just cancel is beyond me) would start in on someone about how fast they worked or w/e. It was as if these people didn't understand..........most of the crew I was responsible for were <1yr removed from jail, for assault and other things. They weren't the type of people you got snippy with. Being the middle man between them and customers taught me proper mediation skills.......fast.
I also learned proper lifting technique while landscaping. Years of lifting very heavy bags/towers of leaves and garbage will get you using good lifting tech. really quick. If you don't, you spend your entire weekend sore and on the couch. I hate to say it, but I do MORE lifting now as a nurse (lifting people who can't walk and such) than I did as a landscaper. People are harder to manage too. They are dead weight, often work against you and complain while you are lifting them. If I didn't know how to lift without tearing up my back, I'd be the one in the hospital.
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