Edited October 2019:
Before proceeding, you might want to check this link on the NMC website for recent updates since there was a number of changes in the application process, examination guidelines (OSCE) and exam fees. I’ll write a new post about it (maybe). But if you just want to have an overall idea about my application process which started two years ago, then read on.
Continue reading “My UK Application Timeline and Expenses” →
A medical course is a dead-end course.
A stranger I met once told me this. He said that being a nurse like me or a doctor like his father, having a medical degree means you’ll just end up in a hospital with not much flexibility to branch in other areas. Somehow, he did eat up his own words when he told me his father was more of a businessman now (probably didn’t really realize it until then) and about a doctor colleague when he did his military training who taught him how to do an emergency chest decompression in the field.
There are more opportunities for nurses that we didn’t realize until we resigned.
A chat with a friend led us to this realization. We both started and ended at about the same time in the hospital we worked at after serving for about four years. Post-resignation, we’ve worked on a couple of part time jobs, most of which are related to nursing. Huge income aside, we found sidelines wherein we still used our knowledge and practiced our skills as nurses. Continue reading “6 Non-Hospital Gigs I’ve Tried With My Nursing Degree” →
Disclaimer 1: No, this post is not a critique of the art as seen in the movie or of the movie in general. I don’t even know what point I am making in creating this post. Probably, to see the worth of freelancers. Or this might just be a random rambling.
Disclaimer 2: I guess I can call myself a freelance graphic artist because I earn from making digital art, so yeah. I’m just speaking from an amateur’s point of view. So, if there is anything I’ve said about the freelance graphic design world that was in any way not true or partly untrue, then, please, enlighten me.
Watched Never Not Love You. Triggered by a scene where Joanne’s father sort of devalued Gio’s being a freelance graphic designer, living on just gigs. Had a conversation just recently explaining what exactly I am doing working as a freelancer currently. Piece these all together and here’s what I came up with. Continue reading “Good Art Ain’t Cheap: Dissecting Never Not Love You from an Amateur Freelance Graphic Artist’s View” →
A transcriptionist, or a transcriber, is someone who listens to an audio and types whatever is being said. And no, you’re not typing while listening to a live call unlike what most people who asked me what type of job is it thinks. It’s a recorded audio. I think it’s a simple job, you listen, you type. Done.
I like being a transcriptionist because I think it’s a lazy job, and I have plenty of lazy days. But before any transcriber/transcriptionist reacts negatively to this, it’s just my thought, but of course, you know the truth about this type of work. It’s lazy but it’s strenuous—in the mind, eyes and fingers. Continue reading “3 Benefits of Being a Transcriptionist” →
Disclaimer: I traveled to Cebu for three days for an interview so I just went around the area where I’m staying. This is just an account of my experience in Cebu and stuff I’d recommend or otherwise or maybe I just like to mention. I didn’t take any photos too, maybe because of interview jitters before and after.
Continue reading “Cebu is the Queen: My Cebu City Recommendations” →
Disclaimer: This is not a travel itinerary post. Obviously, it’s thought catalog-ish.
Days or even months before my annual vacation leave April of this year, I thought of traveling like what I have started for the past two vacation leaves I had. With my Facebook feed saturated with many travel photos as travel inspirations, none of them inspired me. I knew I wanted to do something different.
One fateful night, I thought about volunteering and remembered my Boracay Pubcrawl experience last December. I don’t know which thought occurred first but I sort of fused both and without any hesitation, I looked up for their email address, typed a message saying I want to volunteer for 10 days and if I could possibly stay in their staff house in exchange. Continue reading “Boracay Pubcrawl and My First Volunteer Experience Ever” →
