Working with the criminally insane - Woo?
Mar. 24th, 2008 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_celeryI have an opportunity. This said opportunity involves providing care for the criminally insane.
Atascadero State Hospital is where a great proportion of this countries mentally ill ax-murderers etc. etc. end up. Currently, my stepmother Nancy works there as a Psychiatric Technician (Psych Tech). To get there she went into a school run by the hospital for about a year, and now is making a good bit of cash, not to mention the added bonus of awesome stories.
So, I'm thinking of doing the same thing. And really, it's not the working with the criminally insane that scares me, it's learning nursing techniques. (Nancy assures me that I would never have to place an IV or a catheter, thank goodness, though I would have to give shots). I'd be going to school there, and perhaps working part time at the hospital for about a year, then I could start full time there or go someplace else.
As for my writing, I can't imagine a place that's more intriguing, but I worry that the continuous schoolwork might zap all of the write-and-submit out of me.
Ah, we'll see. We'll see.
ETA: Yay, banner works now! This lovely one was made bydictums, though I'm not sure how long I'll keep it up. Wonderfalls is neat.
Atascadero State Hospital is where a great proportion of this countries mentally ill ax-murderers etc. etc. end up. Currently, my stepmother Nancy works there as a Psychiatric Technician (Psych Tech). To get there she went into a school run by the hospital for about a year, and now is making a good bit of cash, not to mention the added bonus of awesome stories.
So, I'm thinking of doing the same thing. And really, it's not the working with the criminally insane that scares me, it's learning nursing techniques. (Nancy assures me that I would never have to place an IV or a catheter, thank goodness, though I would have to give shots). I'd be going to school there, and perhaps working part time at the hospital for about a year, then I could start full time there or go someplace else.
As for my writing, I can't imagine a place that's more intriguing, but I worry that the continuous schoolwork might zap all of the write-and-submit out of me.
Ah, we'll see. We'll see.
ETA: Yay, banner works now! This lovely one was made by
dictums, though I'm not sure how long I'll keep it up. Wonderfalls is neat.