After 5 years of not knowing what too do..

[ReFaN]

School started today, as i probably said some time ago i want too help people, the elderly, dementia patients.
Started studying in a Nursing class yesterday, so far its quite Good, in the only guy with 24 girls.
Going for this 100%, and i really hope it will.

[Betonov]

only guy with 24 girls.

The odds are in your favor my friend :DL

Just dont stop when you start, I started studying nautics in 2009, and I'm still the first year, just because I took some time off that is now well over 12 months

[ReFaN]

The odds are in your favor my friend :DL

Just dont stop when you start, I started studying nautics in 2009, and I'm still the first year, just because I took some time off that is now well over 12 months

The class is *only* one and a half year long, with a 100% chance of job, because most of the ones working as Nurses are close too retirment, and that us Guys are well sought after :p

[tater]

A buddy of mine worked for the natural history museum for years (after being in the Coast Guard) and decided to go to nursing school. He's now making good money, and is happier in his work (surrounded by women :) ).

Good luck!

[ReFaN]

A buddy of mine worked for the natural history museum for years (after being in the Coast Guard) and decided to go to nursing school. He's now making good money, and is happier in his work (surrounded by women :) ).

Good luck!

Hehe, Nurses in sweden doesent earn that much, lots of more proffesions wich you need almost 0% Education wich you can make more with ;)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Good on you for choosing that career, it's not one I would've chosen but then I'm not currently surrounded by women :wah:

[tater]

Hehe, Nurses in sweden doesent earn that much, lots of more proffesions wich you need almost 0% Education wich you can make more with ;)

You can move anyplace you like in the US as a nurse and get a good job since we are critically short of nurses. (actually, a few of my wife's favorite scrub nurses are actually MDs from the former Soviet Union who didn't feel like redoing a Residency to be MDs here in the US—one is a great nurse to have in her OR since the guy is actually also a urologist so he has the instrument ready for her before she even asks :) )

My friend started making $60,000/year straight out of nursing school (a "plain" RN). He runs a shift now I think, and is making more. Nurse anesthetists can make as much as many docs, too.

[ReFaN]

You can move anyplace you like in the US as a nurse and get a good job since we are critically short of nurses. (actually, a few of my wife's favorite scrub nurses are actually MDs from the former Soviet Union who didn't feel like redoing a Residency to be MDs here in the US—one is a great nurse to have in her OR since the guy is actually also a urologist so he has the instrument ready for her before she even asks :) )

My friend started making $60,000/year straight out of nursing school (a "plain" RN). He runs a shift now I think, and is making more. Nurse anesthetists can make as much as many docs, too.

My mom earns around 33.000$ a year here in sweden, He earns almost 100% as much as her.

BUT, im not sure what benefits he gets, my mother gets Insurance, Pension and healthcare and the likes.

[tater]

My mom earns around 33.000$ a year here in sweden, He earns almost 100% as much as her.

BUT, im not sure what benefits he gets, my mother gets Insurance, Pension and healthcare and the likes.

Yep, all that, too. Full insurance, and they have some sort of retirement plan at the U.

My wife pays non-RN medical assistants well over 30k here, and New Mexico is a cheap state to live in. In a coastal place (NYC, or other places with "european" costs of living) it would be higher.

[ReFaN]

Yep, all that, too. Full insurance, and they have some sort of retirement plan at the U.

My wife pays non-RN medical assistants well over 30k here, and New Mexico is a cheap state to live in. In a coastal place (NYC, or other places with "european" costs of living) it would be higher.

Then i must tell her to ask for a raise :p

[AVGWarhawk]

Good luck! My sister and sister-in-law are RN's. I have a friend finishing up her last semester at GW University nursing school.

[DarkFish]

in the only guy with 24 girls.I'm jealous:stare:
I'm in a class with 34 guys and just one girl (and she's not my type either):wah:
Damned Electrical Engineering:nope:

[Takeda Shingen]

Congratulations on your choice! You've selected a very rewarding career.

[the_tyrant]

I'm jealous:stare:
I'm in a class with 34 guys and just one girl (and she's not my type either):wah:
Damned Electrical Engineering:nope:

Same here, my computer technology class has only 1 girl
but in my vocal music class i was the only guy:)

[krashkart]

Hey, best of luck on your new journey, ReFaN. :DL

[Betonov]

with a 100% chance of job

That's the important part, too many young people study something that they'll graduate with the least effort, and then we have 20 graduates from social or buerocratic courses per one workplace and one engineer per 20 workplaces

[Platapus]

I used to work with a former male RN. He said that school and the job was great socially. Once you let it out that you are heterosexual, you won't be lonely. :yeah:

However, he did say that the actual job of being a male nurse was not great. Evidently there is, according to him, some discrimination about male nurses from the other female nurses on the job.

Of course he could have just been whining to. :timeout:

[tater]

I used to work with a former male RN. He said that school and the job was great socially. Once you let it out that you are heterosexual, you won't be lonely. :yeah:

However, he did say that the actual job of being a male nurse was not great. Evidently there is, according to him, some discrimination about male nurses from the other female nurses on the job.

Of course he could have just been whining to. :timeout:

No, there is a bit of that. My friend said that on the instruction end, many were sort of militantly anti-doc. He's very much NOT anti-doc, and in fact told my wife he acts just as he did in the CG. He treats docs like officers. They like that, which is probably why many docs really like male nurses (the exception being really hot female nurses, who are probably in nursing to land a doc (and they do, we know loads of docs with wives who are nurses (sometimes 2d or 3d wives ;) ).

[Takeda Shingen]

No, there is a bit of that. My friend said that on the instruction end, many were sort of militantly anti-doc. He's very much NOT anti-doc, and in fact told my wife he acts just as he did in the CG. He treats docs like officers. They like that, which is probably why many docs really like male nurses (the exception being really hot female nurses, who are probably in nursing to land a doc (and they do, we know loads of docs with wives who are nurses (sometimes 2d or 3d wives ;) ).

I noticed that too, most recently when we were in the hospital for my wife's delivery. There really was this palpable tension between two of the nurses and one of the doctors. They'd really bitch and moan about the guy when he was out of earshot, and in front of patients too. Of course, he had a real 'tude with them as well, so it appears that the animosity was mutual. And this was in a maternity ward!

[tater]

The women-women interactions are really odd, too. My wife sees this with nurses sometimes (though she's popular with them, virtually every nurse who needs a urologist comes to her first).. She also sees it with patients, too. There is a same-sex sexism where they assume she'll "talk" to them more than the guys would, even though she has no more time for chit-chat then her male partners do. So if she doesn't chit-chat, then she's a "bitch" where the guys would simply be "busy."

Being male is good I think, my nurse friend says it frees him from much of the politics which seems very "henhouse" to him.

[Castout]

Good choice especially if you enjoy it.

I don't think I can nurse anybody..I'd lose patience soon enough...and not having the guts to see suffering people.

For that you have my respect :salute:

[Penguin]

Not a bad choice! I got a couple of friends who work as male nurses. It's a good job, granted the pay is not exorbitant and the hours can sometimes suck.
I can only recommend that you get some additional training later, many I know have some additional psychiatry certification, the money and the work conditions are better there. However in Sweden the overall work conditions in hospitals are way better than in Germany - I hope for you that it stays this way!

I used to work with a former male RN. He said that school and the job was great socially. Once you let it out that you are heterosexual, you won't be lonely. :yeah:


I worked as an assistant nurse for a short time and I can confirm this. This goes with regard to fellow female nurses as well as regasrding the patients.


Being male is good I think, my nurse friend says it frees him from much of the politics which seems very "henhouse" to him.

This is also true and important: stay out of the inner-female henwar and you'll be fine!