I chose these pictures because it's how I feel about my job. My friends always say I just sit there and look at x-rays and I do all kinds of crazy different things. They say I have this medical look with scrubs and the shoes. My mom just thinks what I do is awesome. She finds it so interesting and always wants me to tell her different stories about my day. She really thinks I am a doctor and always calls me asking crazy questions I have no clue to the answer. I thought the society one was funny and fits perfect. Radiology techs always get confused for Radiologist. They are the only ones who can read the x-rays, we just take them. I always get asked if I see something wrong with someones x-rays. I am not allowed to answer this because we aren't qualified to answer this. The boss one was really just a joke picture, our bosses know that we work very hard. People just like to joke that they wish they could sleep all day and not be at work. What I think I do is amazing. It is so awesome to work with such a powerful and strange thing. Who would think sending x-rays through someone would create an image. What I actually do all day is 90% chest x-rays. We don't always get the crazy situations people see on TV. A lot of chest x-rays all day long. I learned that I really love my job and enjoy what I do. It's fun to get a little humor out of the situation and not always look at the sad things about our jobs!
I like your radiation warning picture. I used something similar for what my patients think I do. I figured that from some perspectives, people see me as the guy who is pushing the nuke button and over-radiating them! They might be surprised to know that for those of us who operate radiation based imaging technologies, radiation safety is actually one of our main concerns each time we are imaging them! Good old chest x-rays, the "bread and butter" of radiography. I guess that would be like our CT heads :)
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