No.

You would NOT be honest to yourself if you kept them up. You are here to live your life, not your mom's. She lived her's. Now you live your's. There is NO reason to hang pics you don't like (unless comprimising with a spouse, but that's not your issue).

Be true to yourself.

is the HEAD of the hospital, a doctor, who wears street-walker shirts cut down to her navel, flashing decoutelage while she counts beans. so ridiculous.

sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm not interested in watching a TV show about nurses. Bandaids gross me out. IT's the scientific inquiry that is so intriguing about medical shows and it is doctors who do that. I don't think people are interested in a show about the logistics of taking temperatures, blood pressure, etc. It's importatn work, but not interesting enough for a tv show. Hey, it's OK, no one makes TV shows about my career either, but I don't take it personally. TV is entertainment, not reality.

I don't believe this letter is real.

The voice is way too articulate for the person it describes. She is way too wise for someone who claims to be ignorant of complexities.

I always laugh when people write that, but I don't believe this letter. I guess the LW is trying to claim a lot more innocence and confusion than she really has so she can't be held accountable for punting if she doesn't try to follow her dream, but I'm just not buying it.

It sounds like a Southern Gothic novel, right down to the obese blacksheep fiance son of a wealthy family with "joint problems" and no education, a dead end job on call 24/7 that only pays $30,000 (what is he, the town dogcatcher?) who is vehemently against adoption.

actually I was just IN the hospital a few months ago, and being bored out of my gourd, observed closed what each person there did.

While important to my recovery, dispensing pills, taking my temperature, and sponge bathing me once were NOT exciting enough to make a TV show about. I could give you an hour by hour description of what each person (doctor, nurse, aide) did, but it was boring, outside of the accident, the surgery. The recovery is boring, no one would make a show about that.

THAT, was my point. NOT that nurses don't do good work. No one here contests that. What we contest is that the same thing makes for entertaining TV. Well, it doesn't. Just like my job would not make for entertaining TV. I don't take it personally and consider any different opinion a challenge to the validity of my career.

as I continue to recover from my accident, I DO deal with the doctor, not his nurse. He is the one who put me back together and he is the one who is tracking my progress to make sure i get full use back.

In a world of internet tracking, phone call tracking, annual reviews with goal tracking, it's hard to believe someone can go for so long without doing anything at work. In every place of employment I know, you'd be fired after the first warning. Every office I know tracks your work, your unit count, you efficiency. You meet with your boss every year or more often to develop new goals and create ways to quantify and qualify your work, you acheivements, your progress. Every year you revisit last years goals and compare them to your actual performance, counting how many widgets you processed (or whatevery your job is).

I find it hard to beleive that in today's cut-throat world that your employers are unaware of your slack or that you'd be employed much longer.

I feel like I'm on a different planet from y'all. How did you slack for a year without being caught? Don't people access the database you were supposed to be updating? Did'nt they notice it wasn't updated? If no one accesses the database, why doesn't the manager eliminate it and your job? How did you quantify your progress for merit reviews? Most jobs would specify a goal of X number of new entries each week, track them, and then compare that to your performance.

but couldn't she tell you weren't updating it/?

Sorry to pick, but I'm stunned--this is so different from the world I know, seriously. In my world, if you didn't do the job you were hired to do, they'd give you a warning and then fire you?

I'm not surprise at LW because I have a romantic view of pride and the work ethic, I'm just surprised that in today's cut-throat world, people like that aren't fired! That's what I see, pride notwithstanding, if most organizations I'm familiar with document someone slacking like that, they fire them. That's what surprises, me. NOt that a person would slack and take advantage of the situation, but that the company doesn't can their butt. How do they get away with it in todays cut-throuat corporate world where a cold uncaring company will cut you loose for anything? just sayin'

Imus was fired because he was getting old and boring and his ratings were going down. NBC was only too glad to have a good excuse to kick him out midcontract.

It was a pure market decision. Sagging ratings.

And firing him because of racist sexist remarks would be a market decision too. It's a free market out there and NBC and hire or fire who they like without government involvement. If the audience doesn't like the DJ anymore, NBC is simply responding to markey demands by firing him. Simple.

because Push decided not to press charges. That's thier choice. And the same thing has been done for white embezzlers a LOT. It ain't about race, stop trying.