#dental degrees

[nelyoslegalteam]

I have a post about dental health in Angband if you want more Silm dentistry content

hi. yes PLEASE???

[ibrithir-was-here]

So I gotta figure out something to do with my life to like, have a career that makes money/has insurance. Might be come a dental assistant/hygienist/whatever cuz it pays well and doesn't take forever if I go back to school 🤷‍♀️

Anyone have any advice if they've done that, are in it now? I know that's really random and broad I'm just trying to cut off Life Path Anxiety atm :p

[void-speaks]

What I find interesting about our protagonist (who I am going to address as 'Joey' to indicate that the protagonist is a younger version of Joseph Randolph) is the way he says some things, more specifically, the way he translates words from German to English. Almost always whenever he translates something, he adds something like "'Cafeteria,' I think," "That's like the patients who are celebrating their birthday today I think," "I think that means 'maintenance'" and probably more. He seems to almost always add some indication of doubt in his words. Which, by the way, the fact that he even needs to translate it is already kinda telling, and he is translating those not just for us but for himself too, because he first says the word in German and then translates it into English. I also find it interesting how instead of using the german word for liver Joseph uses iucer, which is the Latin word for that. And I know that names of medicine usually come from latin words or are latin words, but not the name of organs. Which makes me think that maybe this confirms that both Joey and Joseph kinda suck at German. That would be strange though, being a doctor in Germany and not knowing German well... and at the same time, both their speech seems perfect. Joey understands what everyone says to him without problem, and Joseph speaks German well too. It's specifically written German that they both have trouble with.

Of course, it would be way easier to just chuck it as the staff and patients speaking English, but I find that less likely. Also, Joseph is not a common first name in Germany, and neither is Randolph, but Randolph at least has a German origin. So I'm thinking that Joey is actually from the UK/US/somewhere in that part of the world. He probabaly finished high school there and went to university in Germany (which actually requires you to know German and/or English well from the google search that I did). So that makes me assume that his mother was probabaly a woman from the UK/US and his father was a man from Germany (not the other way around because typically the woman takes the man's surname when they get married). They fell in love and then maybe moved to Germany where Joey applied to med school. Also, by the way, if Joey is from Germany but his parents just decided to name him something uncommon, he would've finished med school by 25, making him maybe in his 30s in the game. If not, than he'd be just a year younger or nothing would change.

But also what I find interesting about the theory that the player is a younger version of Joseph is how Joseph says that he doesn't recognize us. I think if I would've seen my younger version I would've probably recognized him? And that kinda ruins the theory? But maybe Joseph and Joey are so different, that Joseph doesn't recognize his younger self, so full of hope and ambition as opposed to him now, filled with wrath and whatnot.

It would also explain what we're doing there in the first place. Assuming that our arrival at the hospital is not a part of the timeloop (like in Little Nightmares 2 where [spoilers] once you defeat the Thin Man he travels back in time and becomes Mono while Mono from the first timeline is in the process of becoming the Thin Man), Joey was probably a trainee at the Heilwald Klinikum. Which would mean that he stumbled into the loophole and everything went to shit from there. It would also make a little bit more sense as to why Helene tells us that we're "not qualified" to bring her the medicine. Not that we're a patient and therefore just can't do that, but that we're not qualified to do so yet. Idk, I just think that wording was a deliberate choice. Plus, she didn't tell us the name of the medicine, she just said that it's special and that it would help her, but we somehow knew that those two specific bottles were the medicine we needed. Of course, it could've been simple stuff like painkillers and even a patient would be able to get that, but Helene said the medicine was 'special.' Again, deliberate wording in my opinion.

Oh and by the way, if Joseph is in his 30s, then Joey is somewhere between being 20-24 (depending on if he's from Germany he'd be in the age of 21-24 and if not 20-23), but just based on the way that Trash Collector calls him son but still talks to him with relative ease makes me think that Trash Collector is also in his 30s but Joey is like, 21-22, somewhere in the beginning or just past his first year as a trainee.

This is like... all over the fucking place but yk. Ya gotta do whatcha gotta do when the fancy chemicals hit yer brain.

Oh and btw Joseph's way of speaking does differ from everybody else, or maybe I'm just imagining it. But the way he talks sounds a little weird.

Maybe it's because Joey is still so shocked about the loophole thing that he mistranslates some of the stuff Joseph is saying and/or misplaces some words, or maybe Joseph just still didn't learn how to speak German properly.

[cinnaminsvga]

actual conversation i had with my dental hygienist

hygienist: so what did you study at university?

me: chemistry...

hygienist: damn, no wonder you look so sad!

[mod2amaryllis]

don’t let your employer make you take x rays

they don't 👍

[emperornero]

i love the ancient roman history community on tumblr im glad theres a website where tags about it arent filled to the brim with neo nazis and white supremacy bullshit like twitter and facebook but i feel like im never truly a real participant in this community because im not a classicist like almost everyone else here. i dont study rome everyday i dont read ancient texts in latin for school im just some guy who got interested in it and will never be as knowledgeable as most of you about this subject. i fully understand why almost everyone else is a classicist it makes sense to talk about your studies that youre interested in and love i just sometimes feel like im from some separate group looking from the side

[databent]

siiiiighs. curse of everything costs money all the time

[confinesofmy]

🧍i'm still so angry about earlier, it's crazy. like i feel crazy. but she changed our plans around so much. and she didn't even call me. to confirm the changes, or to check i was still available. and when i brought up our previous plans she was so dismissive. and i was like oh wait i have autonomy why am i acting like i don't have autonomy. so i called her back and she was like who do you think you are, someone with autonomy? 😂 i think you're lying about why you don't want to go, despite what you mentioned being something that's been a big horrible part of your life for over 6 months now... who the fuck is this person to me outside of the family structure. who the fuck does she think she is that she can say shit like this and remain a part of my life.

i want to fall back on the whole "it's not that serious" mentality but when i picture how she would respond if i was jerking her around like this it all falls apart. it is that serious. you cannot treat people this way and expect to stay on good terms with them in the real world.

[australiandentalschools]

Study in Australia? Yup, we can help!

[haganez]

anyone have suggestions on jobs that don’t make u suicidal bc retail and fast food aren’t it

[this-doesnt-endd]

I feel like my crown just shifted up oh my god

[yourheartinyourmouth]

oh my gods y’all send best vibes possible

husbeast has a friend who thinks he can get husbeast a WFH job on his team making 60-65K or at least re-vamp his résumé and cover letter and help him find work in a similar role/salary and also maybe me too

please Hermes my man i need you now more than ever

[loveofmylouis]

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[a-star-that-fell]

I literally just got a filling today so you + me + Gerard are united in our teeth problems

big time. hope your teeth won’t give you any trouble now 💚💚💚

[starswallowingsea]

well. applied for a job today

[the-trans-dragon]

I think I should add “dentist kept being incredibly flabbergasted that I could still feel pain despite how much he’d numbed me already” to the list of Pain-Related Symptoms I experience. That seems relevant.