Posted: 9/13/2015 11:28:52 PM EDT
| EDIT: Nevermind. I was just wondering how Y'all deal with shit that you've seen. |
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I talk about the stuff that really bothers me with my wife. She is a nurse that sees her share of bad shit and has a level head. One thing that I have learned is not bottle the shit up, it just eats away at you and makes you a bitter ass drunk, that's divorced and lonely.
That and a shit load of high intensity cardio! 
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I always try to see the humor in my job. I have a couple guys I work with regularly and we'll try to have as much fun as possible on our calls. If people are being ridiculous....we laugh. We are polite and professional but if things are funny, I'm going to laugh. Life is too short and there is too much crap in this job to take everything seriously.
The bad calls where there is nothing to laugh about....I talk about those calls with a few people who I trust. The above poster is right....you can't bottle that crap up inside. You have to talk about it. I won't talk about it to anyone but will to those few close friends that I trust and who will understand. |
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EDIT: Nevermind. I was just wondering how Y'all deal with shit that you've seen. Water off a duck You don't let it get to you Easier to think of that body as not a person, unless you knew them. Easier said than done. I've spent my fair share of time with bodies at accidents. At unattended deaths I often sit there waiting for removal and contemplate the meaning and quality of a life who wasn't missed for weeks by not even a single person before we arrived on scene. Don't be content to sit in mom's basement and surf ARF, people. Go out there and matter in someone's life on a daily basis. Live life while you are able While you're at it, pick up your houses. You don't need half the stuff you think is so important you're hanging onto it for a rainy day that'll never come. Your heirs will simply dumpsterize it as they pick through it for the few items they consider to be of value. |