The look!!!

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When I tell people that I am going into nursing I get the LOOK! Then they ask "does your partner support you" and I look them in the eye and say, yes my wife loves the idea. They are shocked that a straight guy would go into nursing.

Very small minds in this worlds!!!!!:uhoh3:

Any one else get the LOOK???

I have gotten the "semi-look" but never the full blown one. I am a former US Marine and I have my BS in law enforcement. So most of the "semi-looks" have come from other guys in my police academy who have been on the receiving end of a brachioplexus tie-in blow from me during defensive tactics. So when I tell them I am going to school to be a nurse they first have to say something about Gaylord Fokker, but then they switch gears and there is not even an issue after that. So that is cool. I agree, it takes a very simple minded person to come up with a simple minded reaction to a change from the societal "norm".

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Different degrees of the look: The Look and The Semi-Look...interesting. ;)

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I dont get the look for being a straight guy going into nursing.

For being 40, yeah.

For being a guy who used to be a mechanic once, or my last job in computers, yeah, maybe.

MOST of the time, I get "good for you!" or "that's great... I've got a friend/brother/uncle/cousin who's a nurse". Or some people have told me they've encouraged a man in their lives to become a nurse at some point.

ND

:yeahthat:

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I'm not getting any "looks" here coz here in the Philippines, it's "normal" being a guy nurse. Almost everyone here are studying nursing be it guy or gal. Anyways, a guy nurse can do what a gurl nurse can.:cheers:

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Ehh what can you do? just buy more toys than the guys who give the look and get a cuter gf.

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I used to get 'the look' all the time. I thought it was mildly cute to watch the 'change' as I mentioned a wife and/or kids.

But I have to confess that I rarely see that anymore. And that's a good thing: cause I'm divorced now and don't wear a ring and can't reference a 'wife'.

LOLOLOL.

The look - :imbar

The semi-look - :stone

The change - :cool:

But I agree, look or not, it's not really their business, now is it?

~faith,

Timothy.

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What's "the change"...is that like acceptance, or what?

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The main look I get is "shock". They wonder why I gave up a 10 year career in IT to be an RN (and hopefully NP) at the age of 33. Then the next look I get is when they realize the pay cut I'm going to take. LOL

I'm hopefully going to be living proof that life's not all about the money.

K

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Boy did i get it from my pops, he couldnt come out saying straight forwarded, that he felt nursing was for females, but i knew thats what he was getting at. when it was physical therapy or engineering, it was like ,okay you can do it son. But when I said nursing it was like, why nursing and of course a long argument over it, But now hes more understanding of it. As for others , i really dont get a look, only thing is that my patients during clinicals almost always call me doctor :)

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all in all, people understand it's a well paying career with great opportunity. i haven't had much negative at all.

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I am a woman beginning her first year of Nursing School in the fall. I am not sure of my class makeup yet, but am hoping there are men in it! They make great study partners! In all my prereqs there was like 1 man in each class and I think that by being a female dominated profession we are underserved.

I guess I want to say congrats to all men entering the field, whatever your orientation, it just doesn't matter!

And check it out because there are tons of grants and scholarships that you can get- more than women!!

I come from an administrative background in a male dominated field- construction so I have "lived" the other side! Assumed to be lesbian at times at the jobsite- poor guys missed out on great dating opps by making that mistake, lol!

Hats off to you all and I can't wait to work with you!

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I know a Male Nurse who is a Former Corpsman of the US Navy. He told me the other day that his only regret is that he never saw any combat where he was shot at while serving in the Gulf War with Marines. :eek: So I do not think he is lacking any manliness in the least even as a Peds Nurse.

Don't let the "Look" get to you. I get the Look every time I tell people I have an MBA (Well, actually I get jaws dropping and stuttered speech...). I am female and pretty so I apparently I do not fit the profile. :p Good luck to you.

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