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Well, this weekend was supposed to be a trip from City Island to Coney Island
to dip a toe in the ocean, and the weather was perfect. Looks like he didn't make it, but not to fear. Next weekend is the long-awaited 75 mile trip to nowhere. Jeff has provided him some valuable navigation tips. Now it is up to him to cast off the lines and go, Alien girls and all. Who thinks he will really do it? My money is on him. He is a man of his word; what he says he'll do, he does. |
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Well, this weekend was supposed to be a trip from City Island to Coney Island
to dip a toe in the ocean, and the weather was perfect. Looks like he didn't make it, but not to fear. This summer, Suzanne is working at a hospital, going to school and voluntering at an old age home. It's been near impossible for us to do more than catch a lot of day and night sails. Next weekend will be our first chance to take the boat for a bit more distance, and we're looking forward to it. Her school/work schedule was part of the reason we'd planned to wait until 2005 to replace Ghost. Then the great deal on the C&C came along...and we jumped at it. We're not regretting it, but I sure wish we could line up more than two days to sail. RB |
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Well, this weekend was supposed to be a trip from City Island to Coney Island
to dip a toe in the ocean, and the weather was perfect. Looks like he didn't make it, but not to fear. This summer, Suzanne is working at a hospital, going to school and voluntering at an old age home. It's been near impossible for us to do more than catch a lot of day and night sails. Next weekend will be our first chance to take the boat for a bit more distance, and we're looking forward to it. Her school/work schedule was part of the reason we'd planned to wait until 2005 to replace Ghost. Then the great deal on the C&C came along...and we jumped at it. We're not regretting it, but I sure wish we could line up more than two days to sail. She doesn't let you sail it without her? |
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I think he will try, but there are far too many reasons why he might bag it. RB has
promised many things, many times, but usually doesn't follow through. "SkitchNYC" wrote in message ... Well, this weekend was supposed to be a trip from City Island to Coney Island to dip a toe in the ocean, and the weather was perfect. Looks like he didn't make it, but not to fear. Next weekend is the long-awaited 75 mile trip to nowhere. Jeff has provided him some valuable navigation tips. Now it is up to him to cast off the lines and go, Alien girls and all. Who thinks he will really do it? My money is on him. He is a man of his word; what he says he'll do, he does. |
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Bob.. can't you leave Friday night? Use radar and GPS.. have Suzanne plot
course and navigate. You'll make up distance to allow an easier schedule the following day. Even if you only sail or motorsail [recommended] from let's say 1800hrs to 2200 hrs at a steady 5 kts.... it will reduce the passage by 20 nautical miles. Drop hook.. grab some rest and be ready to weigh that chrome anchor early next day. CM "CANDChelp" wrote in message ... | Well, this weekend was supposed to be a trip from City Island to Coney Island | to dip a toe in the ocean, and the weather was perfect. Looks like he didn't | make it, but not to fear. | | This summer, Suzanne is working at a hospital, going to school and voluntering | at an old age home. It's been near impossible for us to do more than catch a | lot of day and night sails. | Next weekend will be our first chance to take the boat for a bit more distance, | and we're looking forward to it. | Her school/work schedule was part of the reason we'd planned to wait until 2005 | to replace Ghost. Then the great deal on the C&C came along...and we jumped at | it. We're not regretting it, but I sure wish we could line up more than two | days to sail. | | RB |
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Suzanne works at the Hosp. Friday night until 2 am.
Get used to it. 8^) You gotta pay your dues. Nurse extenders and CCPs get the dirty work. RB |
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Being a nurse is a
thankless and hard career choice. What are you, nuts? It is a path to riches and big sailboats. |
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Being a nurse is a
thankless and hard career choice. What a sad attitude. Being a nurse (we have several friends who are nurses) is a great job and an important one. Due to the huge shortage, Suzanne has already been hired in advance by a top facility and will be capable of earning 6 figures after only two years. She'll work 3 12 hour days. It's an important job these days and it's sad that anyone thinks caring for the elderly is thankless. RB |
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It's an important job these days and it's sad that anyone thinks caring for the elderly is thankless. Oh, she's an elder care nurse. You have our condolensces. |
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CANDChelp wrote: Being a nurse is a thankless and hard career choice. What a sad attitude. Sad but true nevertheless Being a nurse (we have several friends who are nurses) is a great job and an important one. snip It's an important job these days and it's sad that anyone thinks caring for the elderly is thankless. Nevertheless, however much the compos mentis elderly might thank for the caring, generally the job is thankless. Like many vocations, one does it for motivations which are not primarily monetary nor opportunity-driven. FT |
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Suzanne will ALWAYS be working somewhere that is incredibly short staffed,
I wonder if you've ever been to a private hospital. She's at St. Francis now. They are not short staffed. Pay is high and benefits are great. She's loving it and she's doing the dirty work! I consider starting salary of 70+ to be pretty reasonable for a person straight out of nursing school. Some hospitals even pay more. Obviously, if you're a crappy student, you go to Jamaica Hosp. and get 55K. Suzanne is straight A's, scoring higher than 100% on most of her tests. She speaks several languages and loves helping the sick. Any medical job is tough, hard work. The money can always be better. But that's not all there is. We have enough resources to afford her schooling and new career. In fact, neither of us need to work for a while. RB |
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Oh, she's an elder care nurse. You have our condolensces.
Sorry, Skitchy. I have the utmost respect for people who do this kind of work. Trolls like yours actually do harm. Perhaps you've had little exposure to this sort of thing. You should volunteer at a home for the elderly sometime. RB |
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I care for my elderly parents..... It's not depressing at all. My Dad and I
have long talks and go fishing together. Good for you! The attitude that Billy, Katy and others share is a selfish one. RB |
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Good for you owning up to your responsibilities but there may come a time when even your parents need professional care. When that time comes you will realize the meaning of depressing. I know, I've been there. It's not like with a young person who can recover. It is a continued downhill slide that cannot be reversed and it's depressing as hell. "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ... I care for my elderly parents..... It's not depressing at all. My Dad and I have long talks and go fishing together. I spend a lot of time helping my Mom....... I take her to shop, to her Doctor's appointments, and drive her to visit her friends when she's feeling too tired to drive herself. I clean the house and cook most meals, handle the taxes and bills, do all the yard work and tend the animals. I love having the chance to spend time with them in their Golden Years. CM "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... | I think the main thing about caring for the elderly is | that it would be so depressing. Maybe that's why | Katysails is on Prozac or some other brand of | anti-depressant. | | | "CANDChelp" wrote in message ... | Being a nurse is a | thankless and hard career choice. | | What a sad attitude. | Being a nurse (we have several friends who are nurses) is a great job and an | important one. Due to the huge shortage, Suzanne has already been hired in | advance by a top facility and will be capable of earning 6 figures after only | two years. She'll work 3 12 hour days. | It's an important job these days and it's sad that anyone thinks caring for the | elderly is thankless. | | RB | | |
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Nevertheless twice in a two sentence post? Good work Taddy! So I'm doing these comments on automatic pilot! So what's your beef? Anyway, it was a three senetence post, I just left out a full stop. So there. FT |
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What are you, nuts? It is a path to riches and big sailboats
If I thought that, I'd stop recruiting nurses and go be one....but then I'd have to work weekends...been there...no way.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Being a nurse is a thankless and hard career choice. If you consider working 3 days a week for $90K hard work, more power to ya |
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If I thought that, I'd stop recruiting nurses and go be one....but then I'd
have to work weekends...been there...no way.... Katy, what do nurses make in your area? Pay ranges from upper 40's to low six figures here. I've been told Nurses make much less in most other states. The shortage is critical here. RB |
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The only up side for Bobadil is that she will lose weight. Unfortunately it will be at the expense of her health and happiness. Not so...nurses tend to be stress eaters...one of the reasons health care is so much more expensive for the nursing field is because of the obesity levels. Along with the obesity levels comes a high incidence of Workman's Comp claims. I battled our insurance carriers this past year in a attempt to get our rates down to no avail. I even proposed in-house weight loss clinics, motivational programs, etc. and showed them our low filing rate for W/C but the nationwide figures are what they held to. -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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-- Pay is high and benefits are great. She's loving it and she's doing the dirty work! I consider starting salary of 70+ to be pretty reasonable for a person straight out of nursing school. Support that claim. Associate degree RN's generally start at 20/hr...if they're lucky...a four year degreed nurse will start slightly higher. Private hospitals generally pay the going rate in the area. Also, while it's nice to have "A's", that is not an indicator of nursing ability. A nurse can be book smart but really poor on the floor. Common sense and practical;ity are what I look for when I hire nurse's, not book smarts. Nurse practitioner's, with a MS in their particular field, command the salaries you speak of and are able to prescribe some drugs and treatments much like a PA does. katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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The Soul of a Warrior.... complexity, in balance with simplicity...
compassion counter balanced by indifference... function and form in equilibrium.... the senses of a predator and the heart of generosity. The Credo of the Wolf Teach the Young Respect the Elders Cooperate with the Pack Play when you can Hunt when you must Rest in between Voice your feelings Share your affections Leave your mark CM "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... | There you go again. First the bird-rescue photo, now this.... |
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It's an important job these days and it's sad that anyone thinks caring for the
elderly is thankless. It is an important job, and there are certainly some times of joy mixed in with the sorrow, but until you've been there for a long time you have no idea of the thanklessness of the job. The burnout ratio attests to that fact. It is usually better to start out on a new enterprise with eyes wide open. Naivete and Pollyanism will only set yopu up for heartbreak and despair later on when the reality sets in. -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Well Bob... up here in Canada they make starting at $35K to a max of about
$50K a year. Less than an Engineering Technician. Heck... I make 10K a month when I'm working and I don't even have a high school diploma. CM "CANDChelp" wrote in message ... | If I thought that, I'd stop recruiting nurses and go be one....but then I'd | have to work weekends...been there...no way.... | | Katy, what do nurses make in your area? Pay ranges from upper 40's to low six | figures here. I've been told Nurses make much less in most other states. The | shortage is critical here. | | RB |
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Good for you! The attitude that Billy, Katy and others share is a selfish one. Selfish? I spend 50-55 hours a week in a skilled nursing facility. We are also the primary care givers of my mother-in-law, who suffers from dementia. Even during our vacation, we drove in several times so that Mom would not become nervous over our absence. Go troll this somewhere else, Bob. I AM there, and I DO know what the reality is and I am not a pie-in-the-sky can't face reality type. -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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There you go again. First the bird-rescue photo, now this....
It's good that he redeems himself every now and again... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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If you consider working 3 days a week for $90K hard work, more power to ya Try holding a 400 lb patient over in bed while he vomits his guts out on you...you haven't a clue.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Good for you!
The attitude that Billy, Katy and others share is a selfish one. Selfish? I spend 50-55 hours a week in a skilled nursing facility. We are also the primary care givers of my mother-in-law, who suffers from dementia. Even during our vacation, we drove in several times so that Mom would not become nervous over our absence. Go troll this somewhere else, Bob. I AM there, and I DO know what the reality is and I am not a pie-in-the-sky can't face reality type. Just more hypocrisy from the guy who hopes to cash in on his wife's slaving over the elderly. |
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We have enough resources to afford her schooling and new
career. In fact, neither of us need to work for a while. There you have it folks. |
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She can handle it, she's used to it.
-- ---- Steve S/V Pony Express "katysails" wrote in message ... Try holding a 400 lb patient over in bed while he vomits his guts out on you...you haven't a clue.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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I will.
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katysails wrote: There you go again. First the bird-rescue photo, now this.... It's good that he redeems himself every now and again... Perhaps that's how he's been able to unassumingly assume the mantle of the newsgroup captain, despite Bobsprit's best efforts to retain it. Perhaps a eulogaic verse is appropriate... FT |
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We have enough resources to afford her schooling and new
career. In fact, neither of us need to work for a while. Boy are YOU in for a surprise! How so? Is my portfolio in danger? RB |
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So, we can assume that YOU volunteer? Yeah, sure, Mr. Self Absorbed asshole!
I've worked for Gods Love We Deliver. I also worked for quite a while as a children's guide for the NY Zoological Society. I also volunteered for GGIP for quite a while. You? RB |
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Where he lives, that's chump change. Wait til he finds out how
hard they run her for that 70k. Gosh, billy...we don't "need" the 70k. Not much you can to that except pray it isn't true. Bad news, Billy! It is. Bwahahahahaha! Hoooh ahhhh! RB |
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Nurse practitioner's, with a MS in their particular field, command the
salaries you speak of and are able to prescribe some drugs and treatments much like a PA does. A close friend just became a nurse practitioner after being a well paid RN for 7 years. Her salary bump was tiny. She's barely making 100K. I asked her about and she said she could earn far more if she left the city hosp. She loves it there and money just isn't the main issue (it shouldn't be) in the field. As an RN, she turned down chances for critical care home nursing positions that would have paid her highly. Again, this is a white woman in a field that seems to be populated by people of color, heavy accents and poor language skills. Where Suzanne is working now, NO nurse ever touches a bedpan. RB |
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\No, it's not depressing taking care of the elderly. What's depressing is the
fact that when you're to that point, people Katy, my good friend (she just became a nurse practitioner) has been to many of her patients funerals, invited by the patient or family. Certainly this is NOT the norm. She's a warm, engaging person, who cares about people and it comes across. I don't think there's anything she'd rather do. Suzanne is bent in the same direction. On her first day, she and two other first time CCPs had to deal with a patient who was bleeding badly. They had to leave the room. Suzanne handled it, and put the patient at ease. Whenever he saw her after that, he'd say "please smile for me, you're the only sunlight in this place." She was very touched by that. Last night she had her first bout of post mortem care. Rough night for her, but she is determined to be great in her new career. Like most things in life, following the averages is not reccomended. RB |
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career. In fact, neither of us need to work for a while.
There you have it folks. There you have WHAT? What an idiot. RB |
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ABANDON SHIP! AHoGhaaa! ABANDON SHIP.....
....and I ain't going down with this boat... I'll swim for it until I get my original position of helmsman back! Damn your scurvy hide Tadpole! CM "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message | Perhaps that's how he's been able to unassumingly assume the | mantle of the newsgroup captain, despite Bobsprit's best efforts | to retain it. Perhaps a eulogaic verse is appropriate... | | FT |
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I also have had the tough experience of dealing with a family member who
suffers from dementia. So does anyone who reads your posts. Just is case anyone though Billy Jane had a decent bone in his body...the only bone may be Ganzy's. RB |
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