You like learning things rider, seems like something you could invest time into haha just playing
You have no idea. Investing time into learning is my modus operandi.
A few years back I got interested in surgery techniques. I dove head first into learning. Before I knew it I had amassed enough surgical equipment to outfit a complete in-field surgery suite. Everything. Literally... everything. One night my wife and I were watching some medical show on TV and the doc asked an intern which bowel resection technique was appropriate given the variables presented and I blurted out the answer. My wife is very understanding of my needs but she paused the show and put her foot down. Something about letting my intellectual obsessions dominate my life. I donated almost everything to a local animal hospital.
A month or so ago a close friend presented with a heterotopic pregnancy. Twins, one of which was ectopically located in a fallopian tube. I went to a pre-surgery consult with her. After discussing the various interventions the doc asked where I practiced. When I told him I was a layman he just stared at me like I was a freak of nature. But following our conversation he did change his initial approach, preserving the intrauterine fetus.
My wife dropped a kitchen knife which landed across the top of her foot, severing the tendon to the big toe. She wanted me to stitch her up but I didn't have everything I needed since I'd donated the fun stuff. In the ER I had to glove up and pump the pressure cuff because it leaked, so I got to watch the surgeon work. After he cut back to find the tendons I held the tendons with forceps while he applied small interrupted sutures. I asked him if the Achilles tendon technique wasn't a better option for such a large tendon and, being the egotistical prick that most surgeons are, he angrily asked if I wanted to do the surgery. I said yes. He pointed out that I shouldn't even be assisting but for the circumstances. His sutures ultimately failed. My wife had to go back into surgery with him utilizing the Achilles technique, on his own dime.
There's so much more. I've got a double-E, crafted state legislation to my benefit, been a lethal and less-lethal weapons instructor for the state, a state's expert witness on use of force, started and sold engineering companies, owned a bail bond agency, contracted for fugitive recovery all over the US, was the head brewer for a craft brewery, and managed air operations for UPS. Most of it concurrent with owning and running a tattoo and piercing shop for the last twenty one years. Sometimes, an obsessively curious mind has benefits.
