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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

#this is the literal worst #spork talks #medblr #critical care #fellowship #pgy6 #job search

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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.

#hobbies #my friend: 'you should sell your baby quilts!' #they take me so many hours and cost so much in supplies #i'm like yeah if someone will pay $500 and wait 6 months for them #and also #no #this is how i show my love

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#ugh #me trying to write cover letters rn #adulting #jobs

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Today’s sentiment brought to you by our residency psychiatrist.

#psychiatry

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#i mean i feel this in general #but also specifically miss bowling

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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

#i love this one so much and think of it often #xkcd #comics #smile

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medusa sketch by james jean (2022)

#art #medusa #highly recommend stone blind by natalie haynes

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this website is full of people chasing the high of being right in 10th grade english

#that's my whole life

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You're the dumpster fire extinguisher. Good luck.

my boss, when I said work was a dumpster fire today

#I REALLY want this on a t shirt #spork talks #medblr #fellowship #critical care #medicine #pgy5 #residency

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These books were literally a pivot point in my childhood and I am unbelievably excited to get my hands on these new beautiful covers.

#i need hardcovers of every single TP book ever please and thank you #i love these #even though alanna is more Generic Anime Girl than Short Stocky Anger Ball #but i'll take what i can get #(would also happily take new hardcovers of all the YW books so) #tamora pierce #tortall

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#been screaming this from the rooftops #medicine #politics #racism

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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.

#yeah #weird #medicine #blood #hematology

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Hello fellow sloppy bisexuals how is not putting away the laundry going

#my friend came over and peered in my bedroom and goes #oh i see your emotional support laundry piles are doing well

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““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”

#tamora pierce #emelan #today was a ROUGH day #so this is very fitting

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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)

#welp #covid #medicine #poetry #words

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#reading adventures of amina al sirafi #so this feels relevant #uh #octopi #animals #kraken #??

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ALT

#words #poetry #politics #ish