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You're living my dream and I seethe with jealousy. I should have picked a career where I could work from home. Unfortunately I work in healthcare, so I didn't even get to temporarily live the dream when everyone else was staying home during COVID.
Dude that sucks.
My WFH has been for about 15 years. I used to work in an enginerring office and quit to move across country, they told me to lug my PC with me and work remotely. WTH this was an option the whole time??
Still seething over here. I've heard this a couple different times from people, where they put in their two weeks and the company is just "well why didn't you tell us, of course you can work from home". Seems to be the only time people can get a raise or get permits to wfh nowadays is if they threaten to quit.
Can you transfer to an admin type position?
Nah, I see patients both in an out-patient clinic and patients who have been admitted into the trauma ward at the hospital. All my specialty does face to face is really hands on, so no virtual visits.
The other half of my job involves custom fabrication, so we have to have access to some pretty specialized heavy machinery. I basically have the least wfh job possible. The upside is there really isn't a possibility for my job to be automated any time in the foreseeable future, so I guess I have that going for me.
Drat. What kind of fabrication do you do?
I work in orthotics and prosthetics, I build and fit people for artificial limbs and custom orthopedic braces. It's a little specialty branch working under orthopedics and rehabilitation. Kinda merges medicine and fabrication using plaster, metal, thermoplastic, composites, leather and fabrics.
Very cool. I have been doing some of that work for 3D printed prosthesis parts. We get scans of the limb and build out from there. I have no clinician skills, we just get direction from somebody in your position and make the models in CAD and then print them.
Oh cool, yeah that side has really taken off in the last couple years. Especially considering a lot of clinics have stopped fabricating in-house. I work for a university hospital, so we have a pretty large fabrication lab and make most of our stuff ourselves, but we've experimented with a couple 3d printed prosthetic sockets recently.
We mostly do 3d scans to create positive models, and then fabricate around those if needed. Works really well for anatomy that's hard to use traditional casting techniques like for cranial helmets. Are most of the people you get scans from using the Structure 3d camera?
Cool stuff.
The scans we get are highly varied. Some are really decent from higher end scanners, some are mediocre, and some are crappy from a cheap iPad add on device.
Working from poor scans is the biggest time waster for me. It generates a lot of cleanup and guessing
Yeah... The iPad scanners seem to be really inconsistent. Sometimes they seem to be doing an okay job and then an apple update or app update happens and then it's virtually useless.
Does your company focus on prosthetics, or do you guys do a bit of everything? It's a small field, I wouldn't be surprised if I've heard of you guys.
We do anything and everything related to engineering or manufacturing. Keeps things interesting.
Orthotics and Prosthetics has been growing though.
Neat! Well, it wouldn't surprise me if I got to meet one of your coworkers at a national convention in the future. Seems to be more and more 3d companies sending representatives every year. Cheers.
Its a small world sometimes 😀
i work as "essential employee" so i never stayed home, alot of people got COVID by the way, even with safety protocols. what a surprise, as soon as the lockdowns lifted, increased pressure to layoffs mounted for many industries. i heard from a friend who works in health as a technician(not directly with health related) but they held on to these employees and worked them to the bone.
Yeah... One of the biggest problems with our hospital was keeping providers healthy. A lot of people got COVID several times in a fairly short timespan and ended up having a lot of long term complications. We are attached to a college and are a large teaching hospital, so a lot of our attendees/educators tend to be older than your average physician.
A lot of people do not realize how many pillars of education we ended up losing because of COVID. Just in my department we had several attendees retire just after COVID, and had a few pass during or shortly after. One of the hardest to cope with was an older gentleman who was one of the first PAs to be licensed in our state. He ended up having to be ventilated, was lucky enough to survive, but now needed to carry around an oxygen machine to do basic tasks. That kind of experience you gain from being around since the inception of a field of study is just irreplaceable.
The sad thing is I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation, so we weren't nearly as affected when compared to others. The only reason we were really exposed is because things got so bad anyone who wasn't currently sick was being enlisted to help out on the COVID floors. For about a 3 week period during the peak in our state the hospital was offering overtime rates to general staff to work the floors under licensed supervision.
Still makes me angry that people refused to wear masks, or still deny that it was a big deal. We'll yeah, you got to stay home and learn to cook sourdough while some of the best people I've ever met were risking their lives to save your idiot uncle.