Not to sound vain, but so far in life, I've usually worked in environments where I've been smarter and more edcuated than many of my coworkers (retail, CNA, waitressing). Even if I try to simplify my everyday rhetoric, I still get blank looks and demands to "speak English," like the time I used the word defecate the other day. I think that this is one of the reasons why I've encountered a lot of drama, and it's been discouraging me from nursing as a career choice. After a particularly stressful day at the LTC facility where I work, I was pulled aside by a nurse, who said, "Don't worry about them. They're intimidated by the fact that you're young, smart, pretty, and you have a chance to move on. It'll get better once you're surrounded by your intellectual equals." Will a portion of this drama pass as I advance into my career? I hope so. I've worked different jobs in which I the majority of coworkers were fellow college students, and the work environments were much nicer than those that employed mostly lay people. I know that drama will always be present, but do you think that things will at least improve beyond people snapping at me to shut up if I ask them to please help with trays while they're talking on the phone while on duty?
