(05-06-2021, 08:16 AM)Vinny Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone working in a nuclear powerplant. It would scare the crap out of me. 
MrPP used to work on the power supply refit of nuclear submarines. He used to say, if I ring you and say its gone wrong, drive as fast as you can towards the dockyard beause you wouldn't want to survive the initial accident ...
I'm another one who wouldn't want to work with children and probably couldn't be a carer, either. The work they do is incredible and I don't have the stomach for it.
(05-06-2021, 01:08 AM)Proserpina Wrote: [ -> ]I couldn't be a dentist. Mouths are the ickiest orifice.
As a dentist I can think of ickier bits of the body.
Im lucky in as much as most people who come to the dentist are fit and clean their teeth so the majority of my patients are easy to examine and have nothing wrong. As a GP or specialist doctor (gynaecology, proctology etc) the only time you examine someone is when they have a problem and as such is much more likely to smell, be unpleasant etc.
I used to live with a podiatry student and neither of us could understand the other ones interest in their field.
As for jobs I couldn't do I'm not in to heights so painting the forth Bridge or cleaning sky scraper windows isn't my idea of fun.
I still think I'd rather put my finger into somebody's bottom than their mouth! When I was a healthcare assistant, many years ago, I used to have to remove patients' dentures and clean them. It was definitely my least favourite task in a job that was mostly bed-pans/toileting, bed-baths, bed-making, and cleaning up various messes.
Nowadays, I'll still happily take a patient to the loo and help them clean up afterwards, but I'll suggest we defer to the expertise of the nursing staff if they ask for help with dentures
I went on a Survival weekend, many, many moons ago. We were split into small groups and dropped somewhere in the countryside at midnight, The aim was to make our way back to the camp, faster than any other group, lose points if we were spotted by anyone and, crucially, deal with any incidents we came across on the way.
One of these was a car accident (staged) with casualties scattered across the road. "My" blood covered casualty was hanging out of the car, "unconscious". As I struggled to check that he was breathing, he started whispering "Take my teeth out" which was a bit unexpected - but I did!!
Throwing yourself in a wet ditch surrounded by nettles to avoid being spotted, hiding behind a hedge and hearing heavy breathing nearby was also unexpected, especially when the breather drew nearer and nearer, loomed up in the moonlight and turned out to be a cow!!!
I'm pleased to report that our group reached home first and we had a beach bonfire lit and toast made before anyone else returned.
Whenever I'm in that area now, I remember that crazy weekend, firefighting, lifesaving and climbing in and out of hut windows, late at night to share a few cans!!
(05-06-2021, 11:25 PM)Proserpina Wrote: [ -> ]I still think I'd rather put my finger into somebody's bottom than their mouth!
Life would be boring if we were all the same. I guess with time and repetition all the bits of jobs that lay people find disgusting become normal to the professionals.
Interestingly I can check my daughters teeth no problem without gloves but others including my wife and neice and nephew I find it uncomfortable without gloves if we're at home etc.
Funnily enough though a complete strangers kid who'd got hit in the face in the park got fully checked out no gloves etc and I didn't bat an eyelid.
I remember having a man who had suffered a serious accident brought into the surgery (I was a fire and first aid man in a chemical factory) he had a crushed hand with bones sticking out, I attended to his wounds by cleaning and packing till the ambulance arrived to take him to hospital, without any qualms, yet thinking of someone's injury and suffering can make me feel queezy
The BEST job in the world is a window cleaner in the coal mine.
(06-06-2021, 10:19 AM)Jimny14 Wrote: [ -> ] (05-06-2021, 11:25 PM)Proserpina Wrote: [ -> ]I still think I'd rather put my finger into somebody's bottom than their mouth!
Life would be boring if we were all the same. I guess with time and repetition all the bits of jobs that lay people find disgusting become normal to the professionals.
Interestingly I can check my daughters teeth no problem without gloves but others including my wife and neice and nephew I find it uncomfortable without gloves if we're at home etc.
Funnily enough though a complete strangers kid who'd got hit in the face in the park got fully checked out no gloves etc and I didn't bat an eyelid.
My childhood dentist didn't wear gloves and I am pretty certain he didn't wash his hands between examining me and my brothers either
I can't quite imagine lining patients up for digital rectal examinations without gloves and without washing my hands between them, so maybe bottoms are ickier after all. That said, doctors (and dentists) in days gone by must have managed without gloves for all kinds of things. And then there was the requirement to taste your patient's urine for diagnosing things like diabetes... Glad I am a modern-day doctor! (Though I wonder what people 300 years from now will be horrified that we are doing now.)
My childhood dentist was called Mr Savage............just saying!!
(06-06-2021, 02:57 PM)Vinny Wrote: [ -> ]The BEST job in the world is a window cleaner in the coal mine.
Remember the book and the movie- Confessions of a window cleaner
