Comments on: 2 Funny Stories from My Days as an Aged Care Nurse

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:30:06 +0000

@Carol: Indeed, many people who started out very snooty and stuck up about what they would or wouldn’t do in this life have been humbled here by poverty. I must say though that I’m kind of glad that so many folks have to go through this type of thing, it really gives one more character and depth, I think.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:28:21 +0000

@Sanaa: There is nothing too bad in the story. I realize now, after writing this that there are much much worse stories that could be told. This was the PG version. Hope you enjoy.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:10 +0000

Your post Mwangi and Whome’s mini post, make me realize how we go thruogh a real lot of stuff just for money!
Then there was this funny mail of guys dressed in animal skins, just to act in the zoos in the UK, ati a monkey falls to a lion den and he says ‘leo nitafa!’ (I will die today!)One of the lions replies,’ni wewe unaaguka kama mtoto!’ (Is that you falling like a kid?)These were just local me deguised in zoo animals, well, those visiting loved it especially the smaill talk between a lion and a monkey, of course no one understood the language and made the scene even real!

By: Sanaa

Sanaa — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:35:45 +0000

Thank you for the warning (right above) as I was having tea. I’ll be back to read the rest of the gross details(assuming there are some)

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:00 +0000

@whome: You’re story is all together so common. I think another blog that I might eventually start is a blog where people simply send in their stories of what they did in pursuit of money.
It does make one wonder though, just what we are capable of as human beings, if for the sake of money, our character can change so radically. Makes us realize that we are a lot more fluid in our character and standards and beliefs as human beings than we like to imagine. Thanks for the mini-post, me always loves the mini posts.

By: who me

who me — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:01:13 +0000

I can still remember it like it was six years ago.
Fresh out of high school boarding that plane. Filled with grand ideas of the “Ulaya” (abroad). The land of flowing milk and honey.
Soon enough after touching down though. The realization that I was going nowhere fast without a job struck home.
On this my first month, second week and ninth day away form “home”. I hit all the recruitment agencies on the high street, learning of their collective requirements as I went along. Of course I had CV, but reference; err no, previous experience; likewise. Add any other thing you can think they’d ask you for, you just don’t think of these things.
Then the phone calls started coming in and the fun began. Have you ever thought that a job was beneath you. Not in a snobbish, am too high class for that malarkey, kind of way. More a, “they have “mboches” (maids) – who’d do that for a pittance”, kind of way. Well that idea was blow clean out of the water when I was offered £12 an hour for loading flowers onto a truck, or £14 for emptying bins and wiping tables. The list of jobs that I’ve been through is endless: Cleaner, Farmer, Gardener, Builder, Factory Worker, Programmer, Nurse – changed old guys diapers, IT Dude. It goes on and on and on, you think of it and i’ve done it. Most of the Jobs I never imagined I’d ever do, but if it pays the bills – i.e. drinks tab, “Kazi ni Kazi” (work is work).

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:39:27 +0000

@Leeban and Kelly: Interestingly enough, he is an absolute consumate professional when it comes to the job now. He doesn’t flinch when he sees feces and even used to lecture me about professional standards that must be followed within the nursing industry.
I don’t even see where the problem is to be quite honest, once you pass that hurdle of being able to handle bodily fluids, and getting certificates and documentation, nursing is an absolutely fantastic minimum wage job on soooo many levels (flexibility of time, plethora of work etc etc)

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:45:53 +0000

Your friend is admirable. Such stories just convince me that its better to struggle back home than to wash bums abroad. It might take longer but well…

By: Leeban

Leeban — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:08:21 +0000

*barf
I like that friend of yours. smart guy. I think I`d need about 18 demonstrations before I could do my own old person bum wash.