by Jule Kucera | May 23, 2021 | Blog
The interesting thing about working at a university in a staff role is that those roles, especially the ones lower on the totem pole, tend to be populated with people who are working the job as a means to a different end. There were four of us who worked the front...
by Jule Kucera | May 16, 2021 | Blog
I did things at Hennepin County Medical Center that most hygienists never do: I cleaned someone’s teeth in the O.R. I asked a teenage sex worker about her practices, to inform my opinion of the ulcerated lesion in her mouth. I called Social Services when I asked the...
by Jule Kucera | May 9, 2021 | Blog
After the dentist fired me from ‘the good dental practice,’ I quit the pedo mill. It was ruining me as a hygienist. My next two part-time jobs were in a Minneapolis community clinic that catered to the LGBTQ+ community, and a suburban office whose patients included...
by Jule Kucera | May 2, 2021 | Blog
My first career was as a dental hygienist, and the first job I got after graduating was in a ‘pedo mill,’ meaning a pediatric dental office where the hygienists saw a ridiculous number of patients each day. Our schedule was a kid every fifteen minutes, which meant I...
by Jule Kucera | Apr 25, 2021 | Blog
When I was thirteen, it seemed that the only way to make money was a paper route or babysitting. Boys had paper routes, girls babysat. I didn’t particularly like children, but they were a necessary part of the enterprise. Fifty cents an hour was the prevailing rate....
by Jule Kucera | Apr 18, 2021 | Blog
Last Friday, my friend Erin invited some friends to her house for drinks on her patio, because the weather was going to be warm (at last!) and because she has a new home with a large stone patio. I wanted to make something to bring because it felt like a...
