What's the grimmest job you ever had?
What's the grimmest job you ever had?
I'm not asking about the worst job. I'm asking about the grimmest one. For me it was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.
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Worked as a paramedic around the world for two and a half decades now. Saw a lot of shit.
But the worst one was when I was teamleader of a neonatal critical care transport service. That was....not something I could do for long. There is an amount of dead babies people can see in their lifetime. I ignored my limit and now have to face the consequences.
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I worked with an ex-paramedic who alluded to a similar factor in leaving to become a nurse aide.
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I worked as a scribe and as an ER tech in a Level 1 peds hospital. I'm not even done with med school and I've already punched that card more times than I care to remember.
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