#or events that they don't have the full scope of and don't necessarily apply to them but... they don't correct them

[perks-of-being-a-nurse]

What made you want to become a nurse ?

hey @coldbrewman1 ! sorry I'm not sure when you sent this, I'm not super active on this blog anymore and mostly just post a mash up of things on my main @starfish-enterprise .

anyway! I don't have a super profound answer to this question. I've always been interested in medical things/the human body as long as I can remember. I remember looking at human body books I had as a little kid and stuff like that. this turned into watching medical shows, reading lots of random stuff, and sneakily watching medical reality/reenactment shows when I wasn't supposed to be watching TLC 😆

I've been pretty involved in scouts Canada since I was six going up through the program, and through scouts I had opportunities to do first aid training which I really liked. I also met a lot of amazing people who are lifelong friends who shared my same interests, and starting in highschool I was able to be involved in a "vocational program" focused on first aid and medical training and providing volunteer first aid for camps, scouting events, and community events. I have been able to be part of the medical service for three national scout camps with thousands of kids and it's amazing!

doing this volunteering kind of solidified in my mind like okay something medical is definitely what I want to do. originally I really wanted to be a paramedic, and the year after I graduated from high school I got my emergency medical responder license. I never ended up getting paid to work with that license (I did volunteer,) but I did volunteer under that scope. where I live it can be difficult to make a good wage starting out as a paramedic. BC has a provincial paramedic service, and it's a union (which is great) so it's all seniority based, so getting a full time position in a city can take a long time. on call hourly pay is terrible, and you usually start in a rural area where you might not get a lot of calls, so if you don't get any calls you could make just $14 for a 12 hour shift.

my mom discouraged me from pursuing that for various reasons, and she also really encouraged me to get a university degree, which is what most people do in my family. I didn't want to do just like a random biology degree, because I don't necessarily work well when I can't see a clear trajectory and a concrete end goal of what I'm working towards, if that makes sense. even doing a degree with the goal of med school still has a lot of possible routes to get there, and it's so much school, which is not my favourite lol. I also knew I still wanted to do something medical/health care related, so that led me to nursing! I applied to a few universities in my last year of high school, and I was accepted to nursing programs at Queens and Western universities in Ontario. I almost went to Queens, but I didn't feel ready to go straight into university after high school.

I took a year off, did that EMR course and licensing, worked at a grocery store and as a nanny, and did volunteer ski patrol (more first aid) at my local ski hill.

during that year I applied to my local nursing program which I wasn't able to apply to straight out of high school due to various course credit stuff which they have since changed. I was lucky enough to get in on my first try, which is amazing because there's often a long wait-list for this program. then I finished and became a nurse!

tldr: I like medical stuff, becoming a doctor is a lot of school, and paramedics don't make as much money 😆

anyway, I don't a have a super profound answer or anything, it was just a good career choice that worked for me. nursing wasn't a calling to me, its not really my passion, it's my job. it's a job that I really like and sometimes love, but it's my job, not my life. I think we need to hear more of that because it will help nurses get paid more and change public perception. I'm not nursing for altruistic reasons, and honestly I don't know anyone who is. the narrative of nursing being a calling or whatever needs to change imo.

sorry about my little diversion at the end there! there's the long convoluted answer 😆

[herotome]

I'm eager to know more about Warden, lol, but that's not the focus of the question today. Thanks for answering all my asks, I'm trying to keep my interest about Warden in enough control so the rest crew in the superhero program have a chance to shine TwT.

Of course, I understand that you can't answer everything because of spoilers, lol.

As for what I want to know, I'm curious about how the superhero program works since it sounds a lot like college in terms of how you apply and with the event the MC attends in the demo. What else does the program do to incentivize superheroes, and are there similar programs from elementary to high school?

If these questions cannot be answered, I would like to know how willing Warden is to accompany the MC when she's doing something, like a hobby, that he wouldn't necessarily like?.

The superhero program isssss not much like applying for college, no! And the DoV-sponsored job fair event, specifically, is designed to get average people to divulge whether or not they have powers (as well as the extent of their abilities), and then categorize them into a job that suits them. Someone with mild or no powers may get a pencil-pushing desk job. Someone with a more utilitarian power (say, adjusting the temperature of food to keep them fresh for longer idk??) might get a job in a food processing factory or something. Someone with mild electric powers might get to be an electrician.

Much like a real job fair, some people (powers or not) will never get a callback.

There IS a very small chance one could get scoped out to join the superhero program at the job fair (or anywhere, really...), but it's a personal call made by actual DoV employees (such as Warden and some decidedly less flashy more serious people wearing suits), not something that can be arranged by the affiliates at the job fair booths.

Buuut if someone truly, exceptionally powerful showed up hat in hand earnestly looking for a job, well, who knows where they'd be sorted? Maybe the DoV would consider them too dangerous to be walking freely, eh?

The MC doesn't really go into detail explaining this because... honestly she doesn't know how it works. She needed a job and went to a job fair The End lol! But she does start getting A Bad Feeling About This when she finds out the event is DoV-sponsored, and that's essentially the lore as to what's happening there.

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Since you mention wanting to give the rest of the crew a chance to shine, I'll go ahead and answer the last question for all of them. :)

Most to least willing to accompany MC to an event they don't enjoy (starting with most willing):

Mia: ... Ya girl is a mushy pile of play-dough what can I say. She can't say no to you.

Dart: He ACTS like he won't go, but he secretly worries, so you'll be able to get him into a frou-frou cake cafe wearing his full black biker gear with minimal convincing. He's not ashamed to be there, anyway, he just kicks up a fuss out of habit.

Jade: Ehhhhh. She'd go but she'd complain a bit.

Griffin: It'd have to be pretty important to you! If Griffin doesn't want to do something he's quite firm, but if it's genuinely meaningful then he can be persuaded.

Warden: Not very willing at all! You'll never catch this moderate-car-radio-guy at a concert, for example.