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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nurses I know are well paid (one is a nurse practitioner) and have amazing flexibility, especially if you have children. It's one of the few professions where you can dial it back to PT (if you want) when you are raising children and then jump right back in later. [/quote]

Our kids aren’t looking for mommy jobs — they may not get married, may not have kids, so we are focused on jobs where they will be the breadwinner. Wouldn’t nursing be a good option if they don’t go PT?  I don’t think they will want to be traveling nurses, and I don’t want to count on another pandemic. But being like a pediatric hospital nurse should clear like $100k right?[/quote]

OK fine, but why not steer them towards being a physician, software engineer, lawyer or an entrepreneur if breadwinning is the most important thing. What a weird post.[/quote]

Why steer them at all if they know what they want to do?  Sounds like op's dd has a plan and her husband should stay out of it.[/quote]

[b]I thought this site was 100% about not following your passion,[/b] and choosing a career with a clear ride view of the bottom line and how you will support yourself. A nurses job is equivalent to being a teacher, the start low, it’s a very demanding job, and will top out well below DC urban mom middle class. So in order to have a reasonable lifestyle, they will have to marry someone who makes a lot of money or get a job in some backwater where their salary will match the cost of living. [/quote]

Not everyone believes that.  I was the one mentioning the dd should state they want to be a stripper or pole dancer for the money and see what he says to nursing after that.  No offense intended for any strippers or pole dancers.[/quote]

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