I used all the unemployment checks I had, to pave the way over all the bureaucracy paperwork to take a nursing class. As trivial as that sounds it was a real bitch to get everything worked out. You have to pay for your own background check, your physical examiniation (I have no insurance), a two-step tuberculosis test (timing of the essence, this thing takes about as long as the class lasts, don't finish it on time, you're screwed), and find out a route to the elderly care facility, which for me, happened to be off the bus route (no car), and rediculously ritzy, so after walking 2 miles in mid-summer weather, I apparently appeared undesirable. ...Took a lot of shit for that one, I did (sorry I sweat like a human in 90 F).
The lady that was in charge of our clinicals told me I was the first person that got a certain lady to eat as much as she did. Obviously most ppl are fake and impatient. The only thing that bugged me, really, was the amount we had to wash our hands with anti-bacterial agents. Like, no fucking wonder there are MSARS. These ppl live together. Yeah, I agree with throughly washing your hands after you empty a bedpan, but just going in their room to see how they are doing? Why do I have to wash my hands after that?? I did, but I think it's fucking stupid. Anyway, after I did two days short of two weeks of this they finally inform me that some paperwork failed to make it to the destined office, and that it was all a waste, and I'm not going to get certified CNA.