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To be honest, even if I change my mind and want a change in career direction later, having 2 degrees, one of which is medicine, ought to stand me in good stead.
Saying that, surgery is pretty badass, even if the hours are atrocious
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I kinda think they do; one of the reasons I packed in French was the subconscious knowledge that my sister's ex had a Masters in Spanish and had absolutely no chance of finding employment: he took voluntary teaching classes, tended bar as one job and door-to-door sales as another. Now he's somewhere in Spain teaching English as a foreign language.
In other cases people come out in massive (even though it's like half of what English graduates have to pay back) student debts and get jobs in completely unrelated fields. I know a girl that has a degree in geography, started working at Sportsdirect and is now the manager. I know another girl that did nursing and ended up managing River Island. And believe it or not, neither of them are as well paid as you might assume.
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"degrees don't have to be vocational to be useful though"
Not entirely sure what you mean by that.
"Saying that, surgery is pretty badass, even if the hours are atrocious"
Don't you also need quite a stomach for that? Pretty sure I read that cutting people up is quite thing for the nose.
One of the great things here: Uni is pretty darn cheap unless you want to go to a really prestigious one and in relation the education is partially pretty damn good if you already bring a bit of knowledge on how to work analytically/scientifically with you.
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Nah, I've done a total of 16 weeks on surgical placements. Gore's a totally different experience in a clinical setting. Once you get the blue sheet over, it's just like looking at a specimen in a lab, or working on a car (albeit a soft, squelchy, bloody car). There's no real smell until you crack on the diathermy and burn through fat... That is pungent but you get used to it fast.
Colorectal surgery does smell though, couldn't specialise there
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Lol one of my best mates does medicine and every time I see him I ask him if he's been cutting up any dead bodies recently. He always says yes.
I'm too squeamish for that stuff.
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"One of the great things here: Uni is pretty darn cheap unless you want to go to a really prestigious one. "
How much are we talking, Wolf? Here a typical graduate walks out in around 15k in debt.
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Guess people working with the dead are more fucked then. I generally think smell is worse than looking at "disgusting" stuff. I totally can't stand 'bad smell', turns my stomach.
Bachelor? Well, from free up to 400-800 + housing and books and if you really wanna up the ante 1k and up. But, if you actually get financed by the governmen through a program called BAföG - you only have to pay back a certain percentage which is less than half I believe. I mean it's not a lot you get but it's not a bad system. (then again, taxes here later on are rather 'high' but I don't really intend on staying here so eh, also if you get a proper academic job you maybe have to pay 3 months and you're done)
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You don't have to repay the debt as long as you live outside the country
Otherwise I'm gonna end up with over £27k debt. Sucks
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I'm fine with the smell of piss, shit, vomit and blood now. It's just pus, when a pressure ulcer dressing is taken off, it almost takes your nose off.
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I'm fine when I'm actually in contact with stuff like that, but for some reason imagining about it makes me really squeamish
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"I'm fine with the smell of piss, shit, vomit and blood now. It's just pus, when a pressure ulcer dressing is taken off, it almost takes your nose off."
Yeah, I guess you can get used to it. A buddy of mine worked in a zoo once and had to smell all kinds of stenches and didn't notice when he full on walked into shit sometimes until somebody told him.
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But to be honest, if I came across a car crash and had to help, I'd probably chunder first. It's all about context I guess
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"Why would you ask that...?"
To which question are you referring? The cadaver thing? The things you have to do as a trainee GP interests me, although I couldn't face it myself. I guess I like to put a faux-humourous spin on morbid subjects so I'm less grossed out. And it's also a way of catching up with a friend I often don't see for months at a time.
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Lol, I assume you're not british then, Celsius
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My dad always refers to vomiting as "a technicolour yawn"
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I regret looking up 'chunder'
lmao
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you must be proud of them then
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I don't really think the teeth stereotype holds, I'm British through and through, and my teeth are good. The royal family has issues though.
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It's a definite myth. Apparently british teeth are some of the best in the world. Either way, they're
up there
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We don't have ugly teeth, Shane MacGowan is Irish..
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