Would You Date A Nurse?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a dumb post.

OP here. I don’t think it’s a dumb post, but you’re free to not come on here and post if you feel that way.

I asked this question because I 33, a nurse, and I went on a date with a guy who looked down on me for it. He made rude statements about why anyone would not just become a doctor, and nurses are overpaid for their jobs. I told him I was currently in school for NP, and the derogatory remarks still kept coming until I left. He said things subtly, but I got the hint. Posters in the patent forum a year or two back also commented how their law and finanace careers were way more prestigious and harder than a nurse. It’s nice to see nany posters on this board don’t think that same way!

I predict this fellow, who looked down upon you for being a nurse (a worthy profession, without which more people would die in the absence of their constant vigil and assistance) will one day find himself in the hospital, perhaps in agaony with an appendicitis, kidney stones, or his gut eaten out from just plain meanness. As he lays in the hospital bed, cramped and miserable, he will look to the nurse as a welcome visitor in his lonely room.

Then he will say to himself, "Darn, and I went on a date with a nurse and BLEW IT by my stupid personality."

It's going to happen, you mark my words. He's probably the same kind of person who looks down on waitresses and stiffs them on the tip. You don't need a guy like that!

[Anonymous]

I choose nursing as a second career after being a moderately successful attorney for 20 years. I love nursing. Upper middle class people and other professionals do tend to look down on nurses, though. They tend to treat me as if I am dumb or went into the field to marry a doctor or some such. Whatever. They don't understand what nurses do. They don't understand the financial and lifestyle rewards. They don't understand the training or education. Whatever. When I meet someone like that, I just assume they are ignorant holes and forget about them.

(And it's completely possible to make six figures as a nurse. Lots of people do.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I choose nursing as a second career after being a moderately successful attorney for 20 years. I love nursing. Upper middle class people and other professionals do tend to look down on nurses, though. They tend to treat me as if I am dumb or went into the field to marry a doctor or some such. Whatever. They don't understand what nurses do. They don't understand the financial and lifestyle rewards. They don't understand the training or education. Whatever. When I meet someone like that, I just assume they are ignorant holes and forget about them.

(And it's completely possible to make six figures as a nurse. Lots of people do.)

Another attorney turned nurse here! ZERO regrets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I choose nursing as a second career after being a moderately successful attorney for 20 years. I love nursing. Upper middle class people and other professionals do tend to look down on nurses, though. They tend to treat me as if I am dumb or went into the field to marry a doctor or some such. Whatever. They don't understand what nurses do. They don't understand the financial and lifestyle rewards. They don't understand the training or education. Whatever. When I meet someone like that, I just assume they are ignorant holes and forget about them.

(And it's completely possible to make six figures as a nurse. Lots of people do.)

Another attorney turned nurse here! ZERO regrets.

I'm an APRN who went into nursing after being on a pre-law track, taking the LSAT, and then deciding law wasn't what I wanted to do with my life. Also no regrets. Some of my attorney friends have confided that they wish they had my schedule (flexible). I make 6 figures and leave my work at work.

[Anonymous]

Yes I would. I would even have sex with a female nurse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fine, I’ll go there. Yes, for a high status urban professional dating a nurse could be seen as dating down.

No, that’s for shallow professionals.
It is always considered an honorable profession.

+1 I don't know anyone who actually thinks that. It's an honorable profession, universally

Honorable for a female. Male nurse not so much.

I'm a female nurse. Many of the nurses I know (male and female) have gone on to become advanced practice nurses (NPs and CRNAs) as well as into leadership or consulting roles (management, informatics, education). Get with the times. Often times, the patients think we're their doctors, and the medical residents come to us for help because we're usually more experienced than them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would. I would even have sex with a female nurse.

The deuce you say! What, you’re not going to make her use the servant’s entrance as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I married one. Best decision ever! Been together almost 40 years. She is a saint.

And yet, here you are trolling relationship threads on DCUM looking for some strange.

[Anonymous]

if she's hot and in her 20's.

otherwise no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I married one. Best decision ever! Been together almost 40 years. She is a saint.

And yet, here you are trolling relationship threads on DCUM looking for some strange.

?? strange what??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would. I would even have sex with a female nurse.

+1 I recently dated a nurse (who was also finishing her PhD in Genetics) and not only was she a wonderful woman, she really understood how to maximize the pleasure zone of the male body. We didn't last as she moved to the other coast for a job.