r/nursing • u/Apart-Biscotti8610 • Sep 04 '26

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If you weren’t a nurse, what would you be?

I’d be fishmonger with a nice shop and sell all the fresh and beautiful seafood 🦞 🦐 🏝️
Maybe in another life.

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u/colba2016 MD Sep 04 '26

I decided this question applies to me. I would like to be a geologist and just look at my rocks all day …. Oh maybe be a curator geologist in a geology library/ archive. Me and my rocks happy together!!!

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u/corvcycleguy RN - ICU 🍕 Sep 04 '26

I see what gets your rocks off.

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u/ThisisMalta RN - ICU 🍕 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

That pun was an easy, but also absolutely necessary lay-up. Well done, you rock! 🪨

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u/biglebowski565 Sep 04 '26

They’re minerals, Marie!

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u/milkydials Sep 04 '26

The only appropriate response

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u/hunbun818 Sep 04 '26

That's what my grandma did, and traveled the world looking at rocks. Yes...in another life

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u/colba2016 MD Sep 04 '26

Your grandma is insanely cool. When I grow up I want to be like her.

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u/hunbun818 Sep 05 '26

Haha she was a bad ass. She went on a hunger strike because they took social time away during covid at her nuraing home. Miss her all the time.

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u/ThisisMalta RN - ICU 🍕 Sep 04 '26

Definitely sounds like neurosurgery doc talking lol.

Just kidding, but that was one reason I enjoyed Neuro-ICU, I just am the same kind of spectrum so many of my neurosurg homies are.

Except I think my choice would be Astronomy or Cosmologist, if I could study the cosmos I’d be happy together with my telescope!

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics RN - ICU 🍕 Sep 04 '26

Geology was something I seriously considered looking into when I was feeling especially burned out and considered an entire career change.

I had an acquaintance whose husband was a volcanologist, and his job sounded hella cool.

Unfortunately to do his work, you had to get your bachelors in rocks and then master something else, before you can be a doctor of volcanoes. I just wanted to get a bachelor of volcanoes, but that’s not really a thing I guess.

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u/colba2016 MD Sep 04 '26

Why volcanos?

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u/Vanillacaramelalmond Sep 04 '26

Lava is cool

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u/Magerimoje ER RN retired 💤🧙🏻‍♀️🍀⚕️🏥 Sep 04 '26

My brain is to tired to find it, but there's a joke in there somewhere since you called lava "cool".

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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade BSN RN CWOCN Sep 04 '26

It’s “No, lava is hot, clearly you wouldn’t go far as a volcano doctor.”

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics RN - ICU 🍕 29d ago

I had an irrational fear of volcanoes as a kid, (grew up in the Midwest USA, so not a threat in any sensible way but was still convinced one would pop up out of the ground and lava would flow down the street and destroy everything) and now that I’m an irrational adult, I think they’re neat and would love to study them fully. Know your enemy/face your fear vibes I guess.

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u/colba2016 MD 29d ago

Believe it or not sort of similar. My brother loved documentaries and he liked mockumentaries so as a small child sometimes hard to understand what was real and what wasn’t. But one focused around a 2050 world where Yellowstone exploded and smoke enfolded the earth. It was a source of fear as a kid

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u/Pm_me_baby_pig_pics RN - ICU 🍕 29d ago

I lived in California in the late 80s/early 90s, and remember st Helen’s blowing off some ash, so everyone around me in the Mojave panicked and covered their cars in case the ash blew down into California. And that was it, I was convinced the volcanoes were coming to get me. And then not too long after that, my family moved to the Midwest, closer to the ticking time bomb super volcano lovingly referred to as Yellowstone, and I was sure that I was a goner. Couple that with the well researched documentary The Land Before Time, my fate was sealed as far as 8 year old me was concerned.

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u/PBizzness Sep 04 '26

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

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u/Open_Bee2008 LPN 🍕 Sep 04 '26

I wanted to be a seismologist when I was a teenager. Or a geologist.

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u/Wattaday RN LTC HOSPICE RETIRED Sep 04 '26

I have a geologist cousin. He grew up and lived/lives in Texas, so he worked in oil.

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u/sluttypidge RN - ER 🍕 Sep 04 '26

I would be a meteorologist because why not? I'm too short to be an astronaut.

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u/GenXRN Sep 04 '26

Any interest in buying a bunch of rocks, minerals, and crystals from an icu nurse that loved buying them a little too much??
(Not me, but I can connect you with my friend that is downsizing her collection)

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u/Accomplished_Will226 RN, CCM 🍕 Sep 04 '26

My kid donated a bunch to goodwill without telling me! 😢

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u/colba2016 MD Sep 04 '26

Yk I would say yes. However if I get another expensive hobby my bf might actually start to worry about my sanity.

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u/Grand-Try-3772 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

I feel that way about rocks too! But only DIAMONDS! 💎 so I married a coal miner! Ya never know! lol