| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/22/2008 5:25:36 PM | | I'm a teacher (HS math) and I know from my first few years of teaching that it is very stressful and mentally draining. I'm usually spent when I come home. When my boyfriend and I started dating it was a concern of his that I have the summers off and he doesn't. There were also other issues regarding the fact that I'm a teacher (ie. his perception that I make "too much" money with the time off I have. We have since discussed this and come to an mutal understanding.) Another reason is that education and nursing are stereotypically "female careers", and it is often difficult to meet men in school. I've found that since I started working at the HS level there are more male teachers. Hope this helps answer your question. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/22/2008 5:49:28 PM | | I can only answer for myself. I am not a Nurse, I am a Certified Nurses Aide. Yes, I do the dirty work. I work the night shift and it's hard to find someone willing to put up with that. I also work a lot of extra shifts right now. My car is on life support so I am saving for a down payment for another one. I don't know why anyone would say they are a Nurse if they aren't. I am not ashamed of what I do. Last night at work My charge Nurse said they were told in nursing school,Your aides can make you or break you. She treats all of us with respect and as a result she gets my best. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/23/2008 12:18:25 AM |
Before anyone insinuates that nursing is a tough and demanding job that's important (just like every public service union militia tells us, theirs is), let me make it absolutely clear that - that is not what we're arguing here. The free market decides the worth of engineers, computer programmers, bank tellers, and cab drivers or (store clerks - not LCBO of course, another union racket). No reason we shouldn't do the same with teachers, nurses, garbagemen, mail men or bus drivers.
As a libertarian who's just finished reading tyranny of the status quo, and is going through 10 secrets revenue canada doesn't want you to know, I have little if any sympathy for union militias that use emotional blackmail to extort artificially high wages from people like me.
Back to the question - as I said earlier, women expect to date and marry up in the social ladder. Teachers and nurses have high salaries that some of us men, working hard in the private sector in cut throat competition, can't match until we reach our mid to late 30s and these women don't want to wander within the same room with us. Any high school teacher I've met makes more than me doing the same repetitive job, with the same experience level.
To tell me that we ought to pay professionals in some field artificially high wages for some emotional gobbledygook is at best naive, and at worst, a perverse ideology.
This is my basic idea. You don't have to like it. But you can challenge me on it.
OP~ this is far from challenge. You view being "single" purely as rank in the social economic classes based on two professions. This not only a prehistoric notion~ it lacks logic and reason. You seem bitter and clearly uneducated. Linear thinking comes to mind. I am not being judgemental, I am giving an opinion. There is a huge difference. I'll give you a small example, as I do not feel you can effectively comprehend a complex answer. Prove me wrong and you'll get one.
A career in nursing over time will rob you of any semblence of normality in life.
Like a thief in the night. Long hours, endless stress and responsiblity will wear you down to nothing after a while. Unfortunately, there is a huge nursing shortage in the USA because of it. Quality healthcare has become a thing of the past, it is all political now. I would never encourage anyone to go into nursing at this point.
Depending on what level of skill you have, the majority of nurses with an RN or above make killer money. Thus why, they are less likely to settle down with a man for traditional reasons. Plus it is very challenging to have any type of meaningful relationship working those kinds of hours. I view it now as almost a sacrificial career if you ever desire to have any type of extraordinary interpersonal dynamic. Ah~ to know then what I know now. Life experience is a harsh teacher.
I left nursing forever almost 6 years ago. My life has never been more free.
Specialized RN BSN~ commanding an impressive salary. However, my peace of mind knows no price tag. I will state as fact, dropping the "nurse" bomb creates a strange stigmata in the dating pool. I don't quite have a definition for it yet. All in due time.
I can only answer for myself. I am not a Nurse, I am a Certified Nurses Aide. Yes, I do the dirty work. I work the night shift and it's hard to find someone willing to put up with that. I also work a lot of extra shifts right now. My car is on life support so I am saving for a down payment for another one. I don't know why anyone would say they are a Nurse if they aren't. I am not ashamed of what I do. Last night at work My charge Nurse said they were told in nursing school,Your aides can make you or break you. She treats all of us with respect and as a result she gets my best.
You are right on the money with this theory. I couldn't agree more.
The CNA's I worked with for many years, were the lifeblood of what we do. I treated them with the highest respect, and taught the ones that were willing to learn, everything I knew. Knowledge is a gift that should be shared. You're attitude is outstanding, I am sure the nurses that you work with appreciate you. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/23/2008 5:07:19 AM | You don't have to be a woman to answer that one. It's because public sector jobs are awarded to women because of their gender. Also many of these people aren't nurses or teachers, they work in deliberately created extra jobs in health or education, like 'teaching assistants' or any number of NHS bureaucrats.
As for being 'single' - if you look at the profiles, most of them aren't single at all: they're single mothers. This means they've entered into a relationship serious enough to have children, then dumped their kids fathers and opted for a very comfortable lifestyle cushioned by tax credits and benefits unavailable to couples and least of all single men. On top of that they can now draw tax direct from their ex, without having to share any parental responsibility. And on top of all this, there is the first point above - an enormous raft of well-paid and rewarding government jobs available only for them, in offices staffed entirely by women like them, all paid for out of your tax.
Women have no reasonable counter to this claim, other than sexist rubbish about their supposed multi-skilling capabilities and other such bigoted, female supremacist nonsense. And if you don't believe me about overt discrimination in the public sector, try applying for a job in health or education first as Mike Smith and then as Mary Smith and see who gets the offers: Wake up mate! | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/23/2008 10:10:17 AM | "Back to the question - as I said earlier, women expect to date and marry up in the social ladder. Teachers and nurses have high salaries that some of us men, working hard in the private sector in cut throat competition, can't match until we reach our mid to late 30s and these women don't want to wander within the same room with us. Any high school teacher I've met makes more than me doing the same repetitive job, with the same experience level."
I must be doing something wrong because I'm a public school teacher and I'm not making a "high salary". I'm making just enough to pay bills. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/23/2008 11:44:26 PM | | Ok this went from some one asking a simple question to some dorks totally off topic talking about how it is a bunch of conspiracy theories, rubbish, feminist movements, and all this other blarky. The OP's question had nothing to do with politics or anything else. Man OP you asking this question brought some fruit loops out of the wood work. Good job now women on here have an even clearer view of some of the weirdos with some of the guys that have left posts on this thread. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/24/2008 8:04:48 AM | | I don't think a lot of these single/divorced women started out as nurses or teachers. Many have gone back to school while raising children and holding menial jobs. Becoming an RN or teacher will afford them salaries to raise their children and live average standards of living and providing benefits along the way. Both professions afford them the luxury of being with their children. Thank God I was an RN before my ex left, I have a profession that will probably always be in demand and I can survive on the salary. Unfortunately, the hours make it difficult to meet men. As far as 'countrygirl's comments, LPN's have only a fraction of the education of an RN and cannot be compared. Sort of like RN and MD, you cannot compare the two, and the salaries reflect that. | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/24/2008 8:35:29 AM | Woohoo single teachers!
I'm not really up for reading all the other responses, but allow me to throw in my two crappy cents:
Does it maybe have something to do with level of education? It seems like all the current research is showing that, more than ever, college-educated women are remaining single and putting off marriage and family longer (sometimes involuntarily, I might add).
Really, though, I guess that only scratches the surface. The next question is, "Why are more highly educated women more likely to delay marriage and family?"
I don't know. I'm tired now. (sigh) | |
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| Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers?
Posted: 7/24/2008 8:48:42 AM | | Being a male single Nurse the problem is we have to work stupid shifts. ie friday saturday nights and cant go out when everyone else does. And because of the low pay we after work extra so we can go out . But then were to Knackered, to go out and meet someone! | |
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