Most dangerous job

POSTED BY: SignyM
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HEB

Monday, January 9, 2006 1:50 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
University biomedical research (that was b4 AIDS o'wise I'd have to count that as my most dangerous job)

I'm studying Pathology (among other things) and am considering a career in it. I have to confess I get kind of paranoid any time we have to do tests on blood and such. Is catching diseases like AIDs in the lab something to worry about significantly? How often does that happen?

Thanks

Heb

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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, January 9, 2006 2:27 AM

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Originally posted by Ruxton:
LIMINALOSITY:
The winters were agonizingly long before I began trapping, but once I began, the winters flew by... I still live alone in a remote part of the western U.S. mountains, so there's something that lingers, I suppose.

Amazing how doing something outdoors that requires your whole heart and head does that to you.

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And I enjoy my ongoing study of the mountain men, who were fur trappers. They were the roughest, toughest SOB's ever to set foot on this planet, and to a small extent I know something of what they went through. In fact my online name comes from an Englishman who rode with Kit Carson's men in the 1840s, and who is my only remaining role model, or hero.

I had a great great grandpa who was a French Canadian fur trapper, so I've heard stories. They were tough as rawhide. I'd been wondering about the alias, thanks.
At the risk of asking too many questions...freelance nature photography, or what? This thread is a 'who are you' thing after all, and the whole site is starting to move into that idea of getting to know the other regulars, so yeah, here I am being snoopy as usual.

Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

RUXTON

Monday, January 9, 2006 4:26 AM

LIM, you asked "freelance nature photog...?"

No, freelance COMMERCIAL photography, mostly for big oil, which paid my way all over that massive state of Alaska.

But I used to photograph models in Denver for Powers.

SIGNYM

Monday, January 9, 2006 6:26 AM

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I have to confess I get kind of paranoid any time we have to do tests on blood and such. Is catching diseases like AIDs in the lab something to worry about significantly? How often does that happen?

I'm not sure. My field is really chemistry, I just sort of drifted into biomed for a bit. My understanding is that hepatitis is more common among medical staff, but AIDS is a relatively fragile virus and not as infective. I was told that the problem for lab folks- aside from accidentally sticking yourself with a contaminated sharp- is spinning down the samples in a centrifuge. It creates a fine aerosol in the centrifuge which you might be exposed to when you opne it up. Rue seems to have a medical background- perhaps he (she?) can provide more detail.

Me- I was just careless bc I didn't have background in medicine so I didn't know what I was doing! On top of that, I was using radiolabelled standards... too bad nobody told me about it!

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Please don't think they give a shit.

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, January 9, 2006 7:22 AM

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Originally posted by Ruxton:
No, freelance COMMERCIAL photography, mostly for big oil, which paid my way all over that massive state of Alaska.

I see. -40 with camera lenses and equipment, and possibly the occasional bare fingers...which is also tons of fun.

Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

RUXTON

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:15 AM

My face is still fried from the cold. Alaska aged me enormously. Still have all fingers, tho.

LIMINALOSITY

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:32 AM

Skin exposed to extreme weather has a way of doing that.

I paint, and all images are fodder for that. Yours are particularly vivid and keep circling in my head, along with Signym leaning over the poison stacks, 7% in a shower of sparks, and DT being chased around the tomato plants by nazis (*ducks* sorry DT, not accurate, silly). So now I'll ask; does living way out there in the bush allow you to access deeper levels of connection with your environment? Did you trap fox? Because there's a fox in this movie in my head your imagery created who bounds through the snow and then stops and looks right at me, and there's a herd of, what, caribou (?) milling around a cabin, grazing and also looking at me, and animals staring back? hmmm. So, Rux, got a new story?
I defend my right to get all bendy without Simon's chemical assistance, but I also defend your right to think I'm crazy, hee hee.
*wanders away to find more wacky fun in potentially annoying another fan*

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:38 PM

I drive a cab, in detroit, year round.

It.. uuhh... has it's moments.

-F

RUXTON

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:59 AM

Liminal...,
You seem to be good at remote viewing. Yes, there were foxes, and most particularly a very special fox, who became my friend. And there were caribou all around the cabin.

You asked, "does living way out there in the bush allow you to access deeper levels of connection with your environment?"

Yes, absolutely. To some extent here in the mountains, but much more up there in Alaska, where I had zero neighbors, zero TV, zero electricity, etc. The connection with my wilderness non-human friends was quite simply the most amazing thing I've encountered in my life. It was entirely unbelieveable and entirely private; but I have photos, many of them, that document everything I was fortunate to experience, and with luck and effort I may be able to transcribe my notes into something legible before I die.

Another few folks and I discussed similar things (isolated environment aiding psychic abilities) on a string somewhere here about psychic experiences, which I found were enhanced in a simplistic environment such as interior Alaska. Many folks deny the possiblity of psychic experiences, but are missing a massive portion of what life offers. I suspect I don't have to tell you that.

RUXTON

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:01 AM

FREMDFIRMA,
I'd say you gotta be out of your mind to drive cab in any big city. (No offense!) I recall most of the cabbies in Chicago seemed to be members of the Russian mafia. Scary dudes.

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