It has been opined that my job is nasty and disgusting,

[Dave Reynolds]

as I have to make small pieces of people into smaller pieces.

Discuss.

:puke:

[knowbody0]

1. what do you do?

[Dave Reynolds]

4. Histotechnology,

used to assist autopsies.

Slicing, dicing, but no damn julienne fries.

[acmavm]

2. I don't know what you do, but there's a couple of people I'd like to

introduce you to. Maybe you could give me an estimate.

[Dave Reynolds]

22. I'm cheap,

and not too expensive, either...:)

[tuvor]

3. Well, you could be THIS guy.

Courtesy of BartCop.

[Dave Reynolds]

5. Packing fudge

is a noble profession.

I never thought I would ever really use that sentence.

[knowbody0]

6. how long have you been doing this?

[Dave Reynolds]

7. 13 years

on the slicing.

Sick sense of humor is mandatory.

[knowbody0]

16. ill be thinking of you when i watch CSI

i can imagine the jokes. do you feel more mortal than the average person?

[Dave Reynolds]

20. It almost makes me paranoid,

seeing bad diagnoses on people a lot younger than myself.

We often are part of the very worst days of people's lives, and that can be a downer. Hence, the icky humor to lighten it up.

[unhappycamper]

17. Now that's FUNNY! Thanks for the laugh. n/t

[uppityperson]

8. Cool job. I used to send them to you or another cutter upper

back when I was a nurse that is. Bodies, body bits, interesting stuff. Live bodies and body bits were nasty and disgusting too, except it was thought of as a "noble profession". right. You work county pathology or private puzzlesolver?

[Dave Reynolds]

10. Now just a cog

in a University Hospital wheel, clinical stuff with a few frozen sections.

[evlbstrd]

9. I've always wondered about people that choose professions like yours.

How did you come into it?
There are so many things I could never bring myself to do that others do every day.
But I do have a morbid sense of humor.

[Dave Reynolds]

11. Just a fluke,

a small hospital in northern Michigan posted a trainee spot (back when on-the-job training for 2 years qualified for certification), I applied for the experience and did okay at it.

We had a fire marshall inspecting one day, he saw a above-knee amputated leg on the table, turned white as a ghost, and left the room. We passed without inspection.

[evlbstrd]

13. I'll bet.

Sounds a lot easier than restaurant inspections.
I admire you for being able to do it.

[unhappycamper]

12. Your job may suck, but it's better than skindiving for Rotor-Rooter.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[evlbstrd]

15. Having stood next to the Whatever Rooter guy so often,

I see it as a toss-up.
Literally.
:puke:

[crispini]

14. Well, it would depend on the actual squick factor involved.

Squishy stuff is usually kind of icky no matter the source, human or otherwise.

[Dave Reynolds]

18. True.

One place, though, I had to work with intestinal parasites from a dead beluga whale.

That was fuggin' *nasty*.

[mykpart]

19. It could be worse.

At least you don't work in a slaughterhouse.

[Dave Reynolds]

21. I don't know if I could,

that might be way too much for me.