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  1. Making a Better World @[email protected] ·

    Spending Time with Different People

    Daily writing prompt What experiences in life helped you grow the most? View all responses

    I have met many quite different people in many different circumstances. I come from a working class family in industrial England, but I spent a lot of time as a child in a teaching hospital, with doctors and nurses who cared about other people, were well educated and took the time to include me in their research. I learned caring and science from them.

    In the 1960s, the textile industry in Northern England began to collapse, at the same time a lot of people from India moved to the area and took jobs in the textile mills. I had a summer job in one of them, along with another teenager who was born in India but immigrated with his parents. We spent a lot of our spare time together and both learned something of each others’ cultures. Some of my fellow white Lancastrians were very angry with the immigrants, but I learned that they were wrong; the immigrants were different in many ways but those differences made life interesting and were to be celebrated.

    I spent time on the west coast of Ireland, before the days of the Celtic Tiger. The people there were very poor. But they were really welcoming, including the people I met from the IRA. They said they liked English people. “It’s only your dirty, rotten government we don’t like”.

    The same with people in small-town Mexico.

    I’ve worked in several countries in Europe and North America. I have learned a lot from the people I worked with and most of all, I have learned that spending time with people of different colours, religions, genders and whatever can be an enriching experience.

    Those who think otherwise are harming themselves as well as the people they have been taught to hate.

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  2. The Theoretical Doctor @[email protected] ·

    12 Hours Shift – Counting Down My Hours Each Time At Work

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    At the time of writing this article, which was back in June 2025, I was going through my 6th Rotation of my Housemanship which is in the Department of Emergency and Trauma. As a House Officer in the Emergency Department, we go by the 12-hours shift.

    This meant, our shift is from:

    • AM Shift: 7am till 7pm
    • PM Shift: 10am till 10pm
    • Night Shift: 10pm till 10am

    In this department, they are strict in regards to adhering to a minimum of 60 hours per week in total. Thus, in a week, our schedule is as follows;

    • A total of at least 4 daytime shifts (AM or PM Shifts)
    • One night shift
    • One off day

    That is provided one has off-tagged of course.

    Perhaps, it is the “last paper syndrome” that I was experiencing being in the 6th and final rotation, I would be counting down my hours each day at work. Thus, upon arrival at work, I would start my “12-hours countdown“ on my phone.

    On slow days, I made it a point to go to toilet every hour, technically my so-called “hourly break” whereas on busy days, the toilet break is the only time I could take a break. This is followed by ensuring I have at least one meal per day during my shift.

    Otherwise, the schedule in the emergency department is relatively better as compared to my previous rotations. Nevertheless, the tiredness is still there.

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  3. Inside the Red Head's Head @[email protected] ·
    Daily writing prompt What experiences in life helped you grow the most? View all responses

    Would it be easier to ask what experiences did not help me grow? Every experience leads to growth. That’s kind of the point, isn’t it? We’re human. That’s what we do. Theoretically of course. Maybe not if you’re a maga cult member. Who knows.

    Here are some things. I am not going into details about how each thing changed me. Mostly because it’s kind of obvious when you think about it. We’re probably all just about the same in these respects. I will also try to keep the sarcasm at a minimum, but I can promise you that I will fail in that regard. Spoiler alert.

    • Failing at my first attempt at college, and similarly succeeding in my second
    • Starting a career and not failing miserably at it
    • Starting a relationship with Jen
    • Literally everything that has happened with respect to being both a husband and a step father. There are a lot of failures in there, but a few glowing successes too
    • Becoming a home owner… who knew?
    • Having weight loss surgery. I don’t know who I am anymore, or what I am, or how to be who or what I am. My entire identity has been shuffled. Jen got annoyed with me the other day when I referred to myself as “fat boy”. Thankfully I still have red hair, but for how long?
    • Losing my mother
    • After 86 years of colossal failures, the 2004 Boston Red Sox finally won the World Series. That lead to so much personal growth. The Bruins winning the Stanley Cup in 2011 did too, but they had actually previously won it in my lifetime so it felt a little different. Granted that previous win came when I was about one year old, but it still counts.
    • Seeing Star Wars for the first time. Seeing the original trilogy end. Then decades later getting a second trilogy that I never thought would happen. Then another decade after that getting the third trilogy and seeing that through. Then getting a bunch of television series and more movies. All of this Star Wars has lead to oh so very much personal growth
    • After almost 14 years of talking about it, getting the kitchen remodeled. I feel like a new man when I stand in the new kitchen, and it isn’t even done yet

    How’s that list. We just have to accept the fact that the Red Sox are going to finish in last place again, and our championship run is long over and won’t be coming back for quite a while. Let’s just hope the current drought doesn’t last 86 years like that last one did. The new season is just a few short weeks away though. Eternal optimism, even in the face of certain baseball doom.

    What was I talking about?

    https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/02/growth/

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