How many of you guys have been told this by your kids,nieces,and nephews. When they're asked about what you do and they say you're a Nurse their friends reply "He's a what?and laugh". What did you say?

My first duty is to my kids; to allow them to be able to go through life without being laughed at, or to get into a fist fight trying to defend their dad's manly honor. I tell them to say I'm a medic (still). If they can emotionally handle the "your dad's gay..." jokes, then that's fine; go ahead and tell the friends. But giving them a way to avoid the childish confrontations or ridicule is by far my biggest priority and concern.

I work in sales but am CNA certified and am trying to get into an RN program. If someone laughs that I want to get into an RN program I would laugh back at them. I have patients that love me. I can get hired about anywhere I want as a CNA and will be able to as an RN also. I feel better working as a rurse than I do in a typical business setting, a setting I have worked in for the past 6 years. If someone laughs at me for being a male nurse and wants to match wits I'm cool with that, I'm well educated and feel I can match wits in my area of expertise against about anyone dumb enough to think a guy can't work as a nurse, odds are they aren't difficult to beat in cognitive battle....If they think male nurses are wimps and want to throwdown I'll fight for the right to work as a male nurse too, basically don't back down in your right to serve people if that is what you feel like you were born to do.

I usually give them my "killer smile".

Originally Posted by patrick.gines

I usually give them my "killer smile".

That's what I tell them to do

I have never been laughed at for saying that I am a nurse. Most people admire me for being a decently paid professional in a community where most a very poor and don't have jobs. Of course I am pretty rough looking myself, when I am not at work, so they usually laugh at me because I am so ugly and weird looking.

Even so I have a saying that goes "I would rather people laugh at me than yell at me." If me being a nurse makes them laugh then I know that I have made them feel good. All the drugs in my cart, even the locked drawer, are useless at making people feel better compared to what laughter can do.