| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 1:52:47 PM | OMG, I wouldn't. My son's teacher has a right to have a private life. If she was on a pornographic website, I might have a few qualms. Are you implying there's something to be ashamed of by being here, Missy?
As far as why so many teachers and nurses are single, I imagine it's because of the long hours. It's not like you can go out 'til 2 am and get up bright and early to deal with children and/or patients the next morning. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 2:02:15 PM | | OH of course I am completely..........again one of those read between the lines situations I supose. Its not that teachers or nurses or whoever are not entitled to a private life, by all means do what you need to do, all I am saying is that they have sensitive jobs that can jepordized by something that a parent may find offensive. Ppl get sued for the dumbest stuff and I know that a teacher can lose their job over something as trivial as a picture that may look slightly provocative cause a teacher from my high school had that happen to her. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 2:02:50 PM | Hey Ophelia,
Thanks for your show of support!!!!
As for Missy you are a walking contradiction. You say that teachers are human but that it would be weird to see us on a dating site. I am a wee bit confused?????? Being human involves having a private life.
As for your sarcastic remarks about my degrees I simply stated it so you know I wasn't one of those "fake" teaching assistants .
For anybody who thinks teaching is a 8:30-3:00 job I say walk in my shoes for one day.
I feel that my private life, as long as it doesn't impede on my teachers code of conduct should be mine of how I choose to live. In case your curious the BCTF has no mention of teachers having profiles on a dating site....if they did I would remove mine. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 2:36:55 PM | Teachers have a life outside of the classroom. Many want to meet the right person, settle down, have kids of their own. Or maybe just go out, meet people and live life. Either way, there isn't anything wrong with posting a profile. Now if the profile had some unacceptable content that would be another story.
It may be a bit odd to see someone you recognize online and that's understandable.
There are plenty of other people that work with children and the public too that are also on the internet. People's doctors, letter carriers, child care workers, car mechanics are on here too.
As far as what happens if someone recognizes me, it's happened. I have had former students notice my profile and drop me a hello. I teach adults and some of them are within my age range. I do think it is a bit awkward, but then again I was a regular part of their life during a semester. It happens, I respond back with a friendly, teacherly note. In every case, they just wanted to say hello again and that's the end of story.
Tina | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 2:42:00 PM | | It never even ocurred to me that as a teacher I would have anything to worry about being on a dating site. Since it has been brought up in two seperate threads today, it crossed my mind that I wouldn't want my kids to stumble upon my forum posts. Even then, I don't think there is anything too "incriminating" other than some ocassional colourful language but I'm prepared to deal with that if I ever have to. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 2:52:45 PM | Missy you seem to have many opinions on nurses/teachers and the "fake" ones alike, considering you are neither...
There are no clauses in the "standards of practices" for stating thou shalt not post on the internet, just as there isn't one for teachers in their code of conduct... It's not like this is a kiddie porn site for cryn' out loud. You feel uncomfortable with the fact that your son's teachers date or talk to people? I think THAT is weird. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 7:05:30 PM |
many of these people have a hard time forming relationships with individuals outside their areas.
I guess I've seen this happen to other nurses but I can't say I can agree with this for myself. I'm an RN and I have always been well aware of the burnout that happens frequently to those in similar professions and have made steps to ensure that I do not become "like that". I work in a walk-in clinic and probably get more respect and appreciation from the docs than my counterparts in the hospital.
I do agree with the fact that maybe because of our said professions and "brilliant minds", we will therefore TOLERATE less crap from someone and that's why we are still single. Or in my case, become single again.  | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 8:56:58 PM | I'm an RN (yes missy thats a "real nurse" , *sigh*) and I find, for me anyway working with mainly females (and older married ones at that) doesn't lend itself to meeting men. I tend not to fall into the clique at work and most of my friends are not in the medical profession. That being said , at my age (almost 30) A lot of my friends are married and starting to raise families - they did this while I was working towards stability in my career - so the pool of available friends/friends of friends is also dwindling. Plus I work insane hours sometimes and don't always get the chance to go out with my friends although I do make time for them and any boyfriend I have had since becoming a nurse.
I have heard people say that they wouldn't date a nurse /teacher because of the burnout factor ,well any job has it's stressors and if anything I think I am better able to deal with work stress since becoming a nurse versus when I was working retail/other jobs.
I keep things exciting , or try to anyway, I've only been a nurse for 7 years and in that time I worked at a family practice, did pharmacuetical research , worked for a nursing agency and I now work on a Respirology/Infectious disease unit at a hospital - each of those settings haven't exactly been prime areas to meet available men in my age group , but such is life.
so thats the longwinded version of the sad state of affairs that brough me here hah | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 9:38:51 PM | If you were not aware an LPN or LVN (in CA) is indeed by title a Licensed Vocational/Practical NURSE.
CNAs are NOT nurses.
I'm neither. I'm at the top of that Nurse Chain. Yes, I really am.
Why am I on a site such as this?
A friend (another Nurse) referred me to it.
I work LONG hours, and every other weekend, many holidays, etc., therefore my social life isn't always as liberal as it could be for meeting people.
Also...I just web a lot and have been for years, so it's only "natural". | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 11:17:08 PM | countrygal.. i beg 2 differ w/u on ur statement that male nurses r in 'high demand' in this field & ur other line that they can physically lift more.. next yr will be my 20th yr of being in the healthcare field & it may be true that male nurses might be in demand.. but i have had male clients (i work 4 a homecare agency & a hosp) that i`ve had 2 lift on my own.. some of these male clients of mine have been well over 200 if not more lbs.. and w/these male clients of mine.. they like what i do (cause i`m fast & don`t like 2 waste time!) & will ask 4 me back.. when i`ve asked them "how come u wouldn`t want a male coming in 2 help u?".. they always say "cause u know what ur doing!".. i`ve been asked by other male clients if i could come back if they`ve been 'assigned' 2 someone else.. b/c they r not happy w/that person..
and about us females that hurt our backs more.. that isn`t true.. its equal in our field.. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/24/2006 11:22:42 PM | | Teachers are mostly women.Which means they work with mostly women. And teachers have to be constantly taking classes and working on their career, which leaves a lot less time for getting out there and meeting people. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 11:39:08 AM | LQQKING4LOVE2~ Women far outnumber males in healthcare (besides maybe MDs), so with there being more feamels then males, it just makes mathematical sense that women hurt themselves more often.
All nurses are in high demand, but I have seen evidence (meaing it's not just my opinion) that males can be prefered in some areas of care based on just one thing, men are stronger physically (mentally can be argued... Ha ha, kidding). Ya it shouldnt' matter, b/c anyone over 50 lbs should be mechanically lifted anyways, but I have never been to one place in health care where "body mechanics" was regarded 100% of the time b/c time simply doesn't allow for it. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 12:51:01 PM | | Teachers and nurses have a higher propensity to be women therefore, it stands to reason that there would be a lot of them. Also, because they work with mostly other women they may not have large circles of men. Also, both of these professions attract people who are used to meeting new people on a regular basis so I think they would be more open to internet dating as they would have the confidence to meet someone this way. Just another coffee with a stranger who might become a friend. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 3:57:11 PM | Thats like me saying "why are there so many factory workers on this site?" All these are just popular professions. Its not like teachers and nurses are hermits who cant get a date. I cant speak for teachers, but nurses do work long hours, making it hard to get out as often as we'd like. When you have children, this makes it even harder. Using a dating site is just a different avenue to use for dating. Like one of the other posters said, sometimes we dont feel like getting out to meet people. That can be the same for any job though.
BTW..countrygal...
thanks for clarifying the LPN thing to Missy. I guess we just got our license out of a crackerjack box. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 4:28:18 PM | | do not agree with you that lower ranked healthcare staff are not as high profile, as a health care aide, working in a nursng home exposed to lots of confidential matters so we too have to be carefull just a much as RN. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 5:24:07 PM | Yea your right thanks so much countrygal for clarifyin for me about licencin cause I know nothin about this stuff and I have no friends that are LPNs or RNs or any of that and everything I was sayin just came out my a.ss. *cross eyed*
Whatever I have stated has all been explained and told to me by ppl in these professions, so dont be so defensive, I havent said anything that was out right insulting. If you all take it as insults then thats not my fault. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 5:56:10 PM |
In case your curious the BCTF has no mention of teachers having profiles on a dating site
I'm with you, cutiestudent. In Washington our code does have language (if I recall) refering to actions that would be a disruption to the learning environment. This language is more typically applied to things like drag queens, hate group membership, etc.
I wouldn't want my kids to stumble upon my forum posts
ece, I would certainly agree. Now, consider if your students were 17 years old. Yikes. It is actually a good exercise for me to be consistant with what I say. What ever I post here for the adults to read, like begging cutiestudent to email me even though I'm a couple of years out of range, I have to be able to at least have an answer for in class. And nonya business doesn't always fly too well with teens! | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 8/25/2006 6:03:09 PM |
ece, I would certainly agree. Now, consider if your students were 17 years old. Yikes. It is actually a good exercise for me to be consistant with what I say. What ever I post here for the adults to read, like begging cutiestudent to email me even though I'm a couple of years out of range, I have to be able to at least have an answer for in class. And nonya business doesn't always fly too well with teens!
I think I'm pretty much in the clear. I'm in childcare so the only kids who could possibly stumble upon here would be our oldest school agers. At 12 years old the chances of them being on POF are really slim. But the relationship is a little more casual than in a classroom setting so us ECE's appear a little more human and fallible. | |
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