I'd like to stay at home with a nurse.


/hellooooooooooooooooo nurse!

Is this what all those AIG execs are doing, going to nursing school?

The recession is causing this? Geez, I must be living in a city that's in a constant recession. And my dad must work around a bunch of poor men.

As a full-time male Nanny, I'm really getting a kick...

/friend in NYC, a restaurateur, is now a stay-at-home papa
//his wife's in publishing

BunkyBrewman: Ennuipoet: Jeesh, can we get over the whole macho bullshiat of men doing "women's" work? If a woman can drop bombs on a village from thirty thousand feet, a man can take of children. It's the 21st Century, for crying out loud.

/Murse
//Veterinary Murse
///Even "girlier"

WTF is a "murse"?

/funniest farking thing I've heard in weeks

I've always heard it as a man's purse, but I suppose it could be a male or man nurse, too.

What I've noticed is that male nurses tend to relatively quickly move into administrative roles which is likely a better career path than most.

I've been a stay-at-home-dad/freshman composition teacher for about a year and a half now, while I finished my MA.

And now my wife's been living with her mom for 5 weeks, so, lemme tell ya, they get tired of that stuff.

/Graduating with a 3.7

Male Nurses have existed for decades subby. Nurses are in demand. It is a recession proof occupation. Nurses can make dam good money too. They also have Nurse Practitioners which are almost doctors.

BunkyBrewman: WTF is a "murse"?

/funniest farking thing I've heard in weeks

A male nurse.

/Murse in December!!

mamoru: I'd love to be a stay-at-home dad.

This. I'd much rather put up with the mess and tantrums I get from my 2 year-old, rather than the ones I get from my co-workers.

I find this funny as I am halfway done with my nurse degree myself.

/get off my lawn focker

FTA:
""Even the most enlightened, feminist males struggle when they can no longer be the primary earner," said Deborah Carr, professor of sociology at Rutgers University."

Not the men of Fark. They must be extra super enlightened.
They're all ready to stay home and be supported. Watch this thread fill up with farkers looking for a sugar mama. Happens every time.

Nurses are making 26$ an hour and are in high demand around here, I fail to see the problem.

FTA: "I don't want to see him in an apron," she said. "I wish I could say something different, but I've lost so much respect for him."

Translated: "I recognize that my traditional female role is far less valuable than the strong manly penis in my life and his has shriveled, so I'm in the market guys."

oh and the local community college has a 9 year backlog of nursing students.

StaleCoffee: FTA: "I don't want to see him in an apron," she said. "I wish I could say something different, but I've lost so much respect for him."

Translated: "I recognize that my traditional female role is far less valuable than the strong manly penis in my life and his has shriveled, so I'm in the market guys."

If he's wearing an apron he deserves it. He might as well wear a pretty summer dress too.

As a murse I gotta say the job is awesome. I started in the OT but moved into ED and it's great. You've just got to be willing to give up your weekends, holiday times etc and function on fark all sleep. That being stated it can be a great laugh, balanced out by some true horror stories.
For example the on friday nightwe had a dude with a 4 D cell Maglite buried in him, great fun, followed by a triple fatal MVA where two kids wound up orphans, not much fun.

/The pay sucks
//The good days make it worth it

is Reggie Love a male nurse?oh yeah personal "aide"

StaleCoffee: FTA: "I don't want to see him in an apron," she said. "I wish I could say something different, but I've lost so much respect for him."

Translated: "I recognize that my traditional female role is far less valuable than the strong manly penis in my life and his has shriveled, so I'm in the market guys."

Yep, when they lose the respect because you are not out working, earning a manly living they are gone. Things and people do not change that much over the years.

RubberFootMan: StaleCoffee: FTA: "I don't want to see him in an apron," she said. "I wish I could say something different, but I've lost so much respect for him."

Translated: "I recognize that my traditional female role is far less valuable than the strong manly penis in my life and his has shriveled, so I'm in the market guys."

If he's wearing an apron he deserves it. He might as well wear a pretty summer dress too.

Well, I admit that's hard to argue with.

zippythechimp: Yep, when they lose the respect because you are not out working, earning a manly living they are gone.

If she only respected you for your job, you were doing it wrong.

I wish I could stay at home.

southern78: /get off my lawn focker

I take that as a challenge.

Ennuipoet: Jeesh, can we get over the whole macho bullshiat of men doing "women's" work?

No, since the attitude largely comes from women, and they are very tolerant of their own BS.

I'm a Mr. Mom, so...

Gulper Eel: I spent my month laid off putting my daughter on the bus and doing fun stuff with my son all day. I liked it a lot, but if it happens again I'd like to have a bit more money put away.

RubberFootMan: If he's wearing an apron he deserves it. He might as well wear a pretty summer dress too.



How's that again, sonny jim?

That's meat prep. Everything gender related is void when there is meat or fire involved.

I'm a Stay at Home Dad so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.
I've been doing it for 5 years and quit my job, didn't get laid off,this was the plan.

You pretty much to want to do it, laid-off dad isn't going to last very long or will resent it.

Gulper Eel: How's that again, sonny jim?

Look at them. They're just waiting for the photographer to leave so they can get back to some old time man lovin'

StaleCoffee: That's meat prep. Everything gender related is void when there is meat or fire involved.

So a guy in the kitchen cooking up some steaks on a gas stove can wear an apron all he wants?

Mongo cut wood: Male Nurses have existed for decades subby. Nurses are in demand. It is a recession proof occupation. Nurses can make dam good money too. They also have Nurse Practitioners which are almost doctors.

I would not say it is recession proof, but it is an in demand skill right now and will be for the next 20-40 years. In some areas there are hireing freezes on nurses and even a few hospitals that have laid off nurses. Fortunately for nurses there are other parts of the country begging for their skills.

Anyway nurses are going to be in high demand for the next 20-40 years, until the Baby Boomers die off and then I'm afraid we will have a surplus. Unless of course scientist have a breakthrough and fully devlope the robotic nurse. Then all bets are off for human nurses.

I'd take any job now. I'm actually about to relocate to find work. At least it's finally warming up.



/I plan on doing call center work until I can finish my degree.

Mongo cut wood: Male Nurses have existed for decades subby. Nurses are in demand. It is a recession proof occupation. Nurses can make dam good money too. They also have Nurse Practitioners which are almost doctors.

It's not recession proof at all. Where I work we have a hiring freeze for nurses. We're still understaffed, and they're talking of laying some off. Some people in other hospitals in the area are already having their nursing hours cut back a ton.

As a stay-at-home Dad I'm getting a real kick out of these replies.

I have to say though that, having been an IT magazine editor and worked in the telecoms industry in some pretty high-pressured jobs, bringing up two pre-schoolers is by far the most tiring thing I've ever done.

You don't even get to take a crap in peace.

I was laid off in Jan, and my wife is having our first in June. I've been getting tons of housework done and planning for the baby.
When she delivers, she'll have 5 months paid off (rad company), then she'll go back to work and I'll be Mr. Mom Perfect. I want to avoid day care at all costs (literal and figurative).

Angostura: You don't even get to take a crap in peace.

...and you never will again...

I can't imagine subby's surprise when "news" of female physicians gets to him.

Ennuipoet: Jeesh, can we get over the whole macho bullshiat of men doing "women's" work? If a woman can drop bombs on a village from thirty thousand feet, a man can take of children. It's the 21st Century, for crying out loud.

/Murse
//Veterinary Murse
///Even "girlier"

Actually, the only people who seem to complain are the stay-at-home-dad's wives. Only women are supposed to get that deal.

I know a couple who's been happily married for years. They're both nurses in the E.R. And they're male and female.

of course then there's the gay paramedic who said one night "I delivered a baby and somehow managed to avoid throwing up even though I was looking at that disgusting wound women are born with."

I'd happily be a stay at home dad. I don't get what the big deal is.

SchlingFocker: StaleCoffee: That's meat prep. Everything gender related is void when there is meat or fire involved.

So a guy in the kitchen cooking up some steaks on a gas stove can wear an apron all he wants?

Anything a man does is masculine provided he has a fistful of bacon and an open flame nearby.

Anything.