Originally Posted by dixiechunk

I am retired from nursing now but for a long time quilting was my outlet too. Truth be known, my addiction to magazines came about partly because even if I was too tired to concentrate on the real act of quilt-making I could at least get lost in a magazine. Cut my teeth on Quilter's Newsletter Magazine back when it was a good pattern source. It was probably the last magazine I let go...after the original Lehman retired. Got too, well, artsy fartsy and political for me.

What kind of nursing do you do? My experience was mostly maternity, psychiatry, and IV therapy. Ended up my career working in-patient hospice. It was my calling but I found it too late.
My "real" job is so stressful. I am a nurse. Nothing more need be said. In my teaching and working with fabric for various project, a wrong cut is not life and death. My quilting is my destresser. How about you?