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[GeneW]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

lol...it's not the part of being a nurse that I hate, I like that part, but the actual nursing program and the things they want us to do that I hate. There's a test called the "ATI" that my nursing program requires us to pass on a minimum level 2 of the 3 levels, whereas all of the other nursing programs that I know of doesn't even require their students to even pass the test. It's things like that I hate.

Where I went to Tech School we had to pass the FCC General Radiotelephone test. I couldn't graduate without it. The damn thing at the time was being phased out because Reagan liked privatization. Turns out that the license has survived him.

To get it I had to travel down to Baltimore, stay in a roach flat with a prostitute in the next room who "worked" all night long. I heard her earning her keep... We slept on the towels because the beds were kind of, well, crummy.

We also found roaches in the

Next day I sweated it out, taking all five hours to do it. Me and some guy who said he was "NSA" were the last to leave the room. I one of five guys out of twenty who got both the main and ship's radar in the same trip.

Today that bit of paperwork is just a point of distinction, but in a way it separates me from many other candidates. I can sign for RF stuff, they cannot. Opens doors for me to this day because I have legal rights that most folks do not have.

Don't regret having to pass a harder test. In the long run it pays off.

Gene