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Originally Posted by CodeViolationMcEnroe
You think that nurse and teacher are high-stress, long-hour jobs? The hospital in my town has nurses only working 35 hrs/week to keep from paying them benefits. As for teachers, the ones who take teaching seriously are working long and hard, but the majority of teachers take full advantage of the fact that they get paid whether or not they put any effort into their job. Women who go into medicine usually stay away from the truly demanding disciplines like surgery. The hospital in my town has trouble hiring female surgeons because there aren't many and the ones that do exist don't want to sign on to working long hours, being on-call 60 hrs/week and having to wake up at 2:38 a.m. to drive in and do a colonoscopy.
Not sure where you are, but in most places nurses (RNs, not nurses aides) are full time salaried positions. In Boston, the frequently are six figure positions in the specialties.
Not sure where you are, but in most places nurses (RNs, not nurses aides) are full time salaried positions. In Boston, the frequently are six figure positions in the specialties.
It is all about how far you want to go and what department you want to work in.
Have you ever tried to keep 30 9-year-olds in line And teach them something for 7 hours a day, five days a week? I did substitute teaching when I was out of college and I would never want to be a teacher. The longest assignment I had was a month (teach was out for surgery). After the end of the day you are tired, and I was just a sub, the real teachers stayed at work another 2-3 hours grading papers and doing lesson planning.
Hospitals where I live are short of nurses and they work overtime. My aunt works 12 hour shifts. And it's stressful because you have to deal with people stung out on drugs, people injured and inconsolable, angry relatives demanding things of you, not to mention watching people (often young people) die.
As for women not being specialist doctors or in high stress jobs, I would really like to know your source. 34% of surgeons are women http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf and that number is growing.
BUT that is all beside the point.
You said women in these jobs are all mostly ugly... do you really believe that?
...expressing frustration at women obsessed with money, or are they really expressing envy of men who are more successful than they are?
I ask because a lot of complaints about "gold-digging" are tinged with a subtle suggestion that wealthy men are getting access to women they don't really deserve...
The happy times:
21 - 30, I had an income that was easily two - three times higher than most Americans who considered themselves to have a good job. For reference, it was always 6 - 8 times higher than minimum wage during that decade. I never had a problem meeting women. In fact, I distinctly remember ending a lot of relationships because very early on, I was dragged to the jewelry store.
Then the dark years came. 30 - 48:
During the early part of the dark ages, I still had some of my material things, so I "appeared" well heeled. I'd get a lot of action, but as soon as they found out what my income was, I suddenly became "uninteresting."
While I was poor, I've tried dating a few women that have had enough money to take care of both of us. In each case, I was constantly berated for my economic status. One woman went so far as to complain right to my face, "I don't know why I picked you! You're poor and brought nothing to this house." I wanted to engage in tit for tat and state, "You picked me because I'm significantly younger, well built, and you're a fat old ____!" Instead, I looked right at her, and said, "You know, you're right!" With that I began packing. I got into that situation because I was poor thought I could lean on a woman for financial support.
The older I got, the less accepting women appropriately aged for me found my financial situation acceptable. However, I wouldn't say that all women are gold diggers, but there are a rather large number that look for that. Furthermore, most people past their teens begin to realize that financial security is very attractive in the ever worsening American economy, so I can't say I blame them, but there's a huge and obvious difference between "gold diggers" and a woman seeking financial security.
I have no clue what other men think, but I loathe gold diggers. I could care less about the wealthy men that get them. The well heeled men are more than welcomed to gold diggers because there isn't enough money in this world that would make a gold digger attractive to me. I did not like being patronized for my money.
Sources:
I've been well off for ten years
I've been poor for twenty
Thanks for reading,
bolillo
Last edited by bolillo_loco; 10-11-2013 at 04:54 AM..
Reason: No Rhodes scholar here
...expressing frustration at women obsessed with money, or are they really expressing envy of men who are more successful than they are?
I ask because a lot of complaints about "gold-digging" are tinged with a subtle suggestion that wealthy men are getting access to women they don't really deserve...
Could be, but unfortunately many women do care nothing for any thing outside of the cartoonish "dollar-signs" they have for eyeballs "$o$"!~ ^_^
Well the thing is with this Supine guy is that he oscillates from gender relationships to politics to economics with no coherent structure with ridiculous rapidity. Individual bits and pieces of what he says makes sense but it all just rambles together like a M.C Escher drawing.
"The thing is with this Supine guy" is that he doesn't care what you think. I've debated an admitted liberal pedophile on a different website who has a sexual attraction to 6 and 9 year-old girls, and surprise, surprise he has pulled out the same kind of lines you do attacking my "intelligence." I don't care what he thinks. And I don't care what you think.
As-salamu alaykum
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