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What do you think is the worst profession?
#1
I'm on a staycation while preparing for my move, and I started watching podiatry videos on YouTube. I thought being a dentist or dental hygienist would be bad because of people's bad breath and gross mouths, but being a podiatrist is 10X worse. It seems like most of their work involves clipping toenails with fungal infections; removing warts, calluses, and abscesses; and removing ingrown toenails. Sadly, they seem to get a lot of elderly patients who suffer from self-neglect. A lot of them had feet that were covered in dead skin.
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#2
Your time off from work is spent much differently than mine Tongue
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I really started thinking about this because I went to the dentist. I had great dental insurance through the State, and I'm trying to use it before I lose it at the end of this month.
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#4
My grandfather was a podiatrist....

I have this **possibly strange** fear of getting to a point I can’t touch my own feet to care for them. I’m pretty sure your general health declines significantly once you reach that point.

Also, the worst thing I’ve ever seen or smelled was a patient having maggots removed from being embedded into their feet from nursing home neglect Sad
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#5
I spent one semester thinking it’d be cool to do ultrasound (like vascular, not pregnant people)... until I though of something during orientation and confirmed it. Vascular ultrasound technicians sometimes have to put mint under their nose so they are less likely to gag while moving peoples skin folds to find the veins. And then I was gone once I started thinking about the potentially rotten smell of skin “cheese”. Now I’m trying to avoid medical field careers, turns out a lot are not for the easily grossed out.
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#6
I'm usually not grossed out by blood, bones, organs, or surgeries. I've had to look at hundreds of pictures of dead bodies in my forensic medicine program, but podiatry patients are extreme. I also wouldn't want to go to college for a total of eight years to spend most of my time clipping toenails.
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#7
prison guard ?
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(04-19-2019, 10:37 AM)bluebooger Wrote: prison guard ?

I worked in a jail and a prison. The jail as a corrections officer and the prison as a counselor. My counseling office was inside the cell block.
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(04-19-2019, 11:00 AM)sanantone Wrote:
(04-19-2019, 10:37 AM)bluebooger Wrote: prison guard ?

I worked in a jail and a prison. The jail as a corrections officer and the prison as a counselor. My counseling office was inside the cell block.

How was it?
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#10
Telemarketer, politician, ambulance-chasing lawyers... just to think of a few.
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