# Finally, a new job! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093 "2004-09-20T05:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/1 "2004-09-20T05:08:05Z")
After three years of retail hell, something new has finally come along. No more night shifts, or weekends. Better pay and more hours. It’s a beautiful thing. Only now, I just got over an ear infection on Thursday in my left ear, and now I feel like one is coming in my right ear. Please oh please tell me I’m imagining things. I have to buy scrubs, I don’t have the loot to go back to the doc! ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/2 "2004-09-20T05:09:50Z")
What is your new job? Congrats 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/3 "2004-09-20T05:22:31Z")
> [@START](#): > > What is your new job? > > Congrats 🙂 it’s called a Reuse Technician. Just a fancy word for cleaning dialysis machines at a kidney center. I have to clean the plastic kidneys (not sure of technical term because I haven’t started yet), and measure out the solution for the dialysis machines. A step up in my opinion from retail hell heh. And thanks! ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/4 "2004-09-20T05:32:03Z")
> [@WomanofScorn](#): > > it’s called a Reuse Technician. Just a fancy word for cleaning dialysis machines at a kidney center. I have to clean the plastic kidneys (not sure of technical term because I haven’t started yet), and measure out the solution for the dialysis machines. > > A step up in my opinion from retail hell heh. > > And thanks! Cool…One more question. How long did you have to train? _Yep I’m just a curious fellow_ ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/5 "2004-09-20T05:40:45Z")
Great news, **WomanofScorn**. Retail sucks. I never want to go back. ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/6 "2004-09-21T01:28:36Z")
**START** I haven’t trained yet, I don’t start until Sept. 27, but the lady there told me I’d probably train for 2 weeks. I’m nervous but excited as hell. Tomorrow I go scrubs shopping. Just one more step farther away from retail heh. **Harimad-sol** Yes, retail should be sentenced to prisoners. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/7 "2004-09-21T01:36:49Z")
Congrats! Hope you like your new field of work. I’ve never been in retail, so I can’t imagine what that’s like. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/8 "2004-09-22T00:57:18Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > Congrats! Hope you like your new field of work. I’ve never been in retail, so I can’t imagine what that’s like. > > Good luck. I think I’ll like it, but I’m going to be very nervous. Being the new girl and all. Ugh, it’s like the waiting to see what it’s going to be like is the worst. But thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/9 "2004-09-22T04:25:52Z")
> [@WomanofScorn](#): > > **START** > > I haven’t trained yet, I don’t start until Sept. 27, but the lady there told me I’d probably train for 2 weeks. I’m nervous but excited as hell. Tomorrow I go scrubs shopping. Just one more step farther away from retail heh. Ah, scrubs. Reputed to be very comfy. Can you wear different colors of them? ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/10 "2004-09-22T18:26:21Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Ah, scrubs. Reputed to be very comfy. Can you wear different colors of them? Yes! Any kind I want. I got a great deal yesterday, I bought 5 tops and 4 bottoms for $102.19! I love scrubs, I’ve worn them before with a previous job, but that was also about 60 lbs ago heh, so I had to buy more. Ahh, to be home before 8pm, I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-new-job/265093/11 "2004-09-23T03:00:53Z")
Read the Dope, of course! Good luck.