So just to vent- I work at a kid's psych facility. last night a kid broke through our windows into the back, trashed the main office and started a small chemical fire by throwing detergent onto a broken computer monitor. We got the kids outside (four of which promptly ran away) and I started hearing calls for help on my walkie. All the other staff were chasing down kids who had run away and were causing trouble in the nearby neighborhoods. So I ended up going back inside the very smoky building with my shirt over my face to find a staff who was afraid to come out and then help her drag a 250-pound client out of the building by her feet, feeling like I was in a movie, except it was much more unpleasant. And it turned out the building actually wasn't burning, the monitor was just causing a ton of smoke and sparks from the detergent on the exposed wiring.
Still searching for a different job. I am looking at family practice, home health, psych in a hospital or corrections... something where I can use more of my patient education and primary health care skills and less of my firefighter skills.
This is actually from an email I sent to my old manager, but then I thought, hey, this is a pretty good story!
